Re: just a brief digression » phidippus

Posted by SLS on August 28, 2012, at 7:45:16

In reply to Re: just a brief digression » SLS, posted by phidippus on August 27, 2012, at 20:04:43

> While I have your attention...
>
> I have been having a troubling symptom and because I have OCD alongside the bipolar, I am having difficulty figuring out if its a bipolar symptom or an OCD symptom. I am asking you because you're the only person on Psycho-Babble I know is bipolar.
>
> Basically, I'm having moments where I wish I were dead. Like I feel so tired I can't go on, just for brief moments. Is this my mood becoming labile, or just intrusive thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric

When my depression was worse, I was frequently plagued by unwanted, inappropriate intrusive thoughts. It was like my sick brain was manufacturing these thoughts on its own. However, I would allow them to dissipate quickly once they emerged by not paying attention to them. I realized that they were indeed spontaneous brain malfunctions that were unrelated to me as a person and not to be taken seriously.
Obviously, I cannot draw a distinction between the intrusive thoughts of depression versus those of OCD. If I had to guess, I would say that those of OCD cannot be so easily dismissed as one cannot help but to focus on and ruminate over them, despite knowing that they are part of an illness. I imagine that such thoughts are relentless in OCD.
I guess the bottom line is that intrusive thoughts can occur in the absence of OCD or OCPD.

- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
- George Bernard Shaw

Thread

Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists alchemy 8/20/12
...
Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » Willful SLS 8/23/12
Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists Willful 8/23/12
Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » Willful SLS 8/23/12
Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » SLS europerep 8/24/12
Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » europerep SLS 8/25/12
Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » SLS g_g_g_unit 8/25/12
Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » g_g_g_unit SLS 8/26/12
Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » SLS g_g_g_unit 8/27/12
Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » g_g_g_unit SLS 8/27/12
Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » SLS phidippus 8/27/12
Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » phidippus SLS 8/27/12
Re: just a brief digression » SLS phidippus 8/27/12
Re: just a brief digression » phidippus SLS 8/28/12
Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » phidippus b2chica 8/30/12
Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » b2chica SLS 8/30/12
Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » SLS phidippus 8/30/12
Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » SLS Phillipa 8/30/12
Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » b2chica phidippus 8/30/12
Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » Phillipa SLS 8/30/12
Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » phidippus SLS 8/31/12
Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » SLS phidippus 8/31/12
Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » SLS phidippus 8/31/12
Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » phidippus Phillipa 8/31/12
Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » SLS g_g_g_unit 9/1/12
Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » g_g_g_unit SLS 9/1/12
...
Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists TemporarilyBob 9/7/12

Post a new follow-up

Notify the administrators

Start a new thread

poster:SLS thread:1023768
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20120818/msgs/1024340.html