Posted by jane d on August 23, 2011, at 8:31:34
In reply to Re: Negative thought appearing » floatingbridge, posted by Tabitha on August 23, 2011, at 3:48:29
> If your thought has emotion and distresses you, by all means talk it out with someone. Perhaps the distress can be relieved.
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> I've had some very odd thoughts that keep cropping up. They seem to happen when I'm anxious, and they don't have emotion associated with them. They've changed over time. The most frequent one these days is "I'm going to commit suicide". Yet I've been suicidal, and this repetitive, flat thought is not the same thing as feeling suicidal. I don't feel particularly hopeless or distressed when the thought happens. I've just quit worrying about it. It seems like bizarre brain junk to me, not particularly meaningful.
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>i've had almost exactly the same thought with the same lack of suicidal feeling off and on through the years. It scared me silly the first time it happened. Now I recognize it mainly as a marker of stress and also shrug it off. I've wondered if what's significant about these suicidal thoughts is that they are so taboo and whether it has any relation to the taboo thoughts of OCD. Or cursing in Tourettes.
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