vivid imagination--intrusive thinking

Post Reply New Topic

Whenever i think about anything painful, i normally groan, or something like groaning, more like a hesitant whine, if anything.


For example. I was just walking down the stairs, and i imagined myself falling down the stairs, getting twisted up in the rail, and breaking my leg. Does this happen with anyone else?


If i remember correctly, they call it intrusive thinking.

I don't usually make noises, but yes. Intrusive thoughts like that pop up quite often.

Yeah i don't normally either. But it sometimes happens in front of other people, and they'll ask me if i groaned, and i will completely deny it. just because it's annoying to explain.

The only time I've reacted to an intrusive thought, it was something funny. I laughed... in the middle of class.

That was embarrassing.

Actually, quite a bit. Sometimes I imagine myself just doing something stupid that I wouldn't end up doing, but still.

The thoughts usually scare me.

Yes! This happens to me constantly. My most intrusive one at the moment is the idea that I won't be able to control my jaw when eating, and will start gnashing at my fork so that my teeth break.

I don't even have to be eating for that idea to suddenly appear in my mind, like a spider running out from furniture.

ah! that one sounds bad.


I have one like that. Sometimes i think i'm going start trying to pull my teeth out. I have nightmares about it too.

Sometimes these thoughts just come from nowhere!! I recently had a mice problem (so, so traumatised) and now everytime I wash up I imagine that a huge mouse is going to bite my toes off!

Yes, I have issues with intrusive thinking too (though I don't make any noises unlike the OP) and this issue was very difficult to deal with to me some time ago. But now I have managed to overcome this. I have something like an eye phobia and quite often I'm disturbed by the thought that something bad could happen to my eyes. My "favorite" vision concerning this is the one in which I am falling on sharp shreds of glass lying on the floor and get blinded when they cut my eyes

Intrusive thinking might be the source of many of my noises..

yeah, i have intrusive thinking alot too

i have been doing this all my life!

everytime i remember an embarrassing situation of the past (even back to early childhood) or imagine a horror scenario in the future ( i am good at that, ), i groan or sigh lightly.
the only thing that changed over the years is that i now try to control when i groan. i try to avoid doing it when in company and often change it from sighing or groaning to very sharply taking a deep breath and then exhale.

gosh, am i relieved to have found this place - i am not mad!! !!

going to pop over to "getting to know each other" and say hello properly, .

Always have had intrusive thinking. Never knew about the term before until now. Fascinating. It's highly annoying, too.

SPOILER: IF YOU FIND INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS 'CONTAGIOUS' YOU MIGHT NOT WANT TO READ FURTHER.

That's really similar to the ones I had as a teen. I'd 'imagine' needles piercing my eyes, or razor blades. And other awful things to other body parts. Mercifully, that all faded 95% away as I got older. But at the time it was horrendous (like many times a minute all day long).

It's my understanding that "intrusive thoughts" are an OCD thing. Or at least OCD-ish, in that you might have that part of it, but not enough or not enough of other things to qualify for a full-blown OCD dx (like with minor, intermittant tics and Tourette's).

I know I'm very "in this direction" but I'm not sure if it's full fledged OCD. It manifests itself in me mostly in the field of thought compulsions. The same case is with Tourettes for me.

lol yeah i do that. dunno about groaning but i know sometimes i do that sharp intake of breath thing(like you do when you see someone else hurting themselves or something that looks painful)