How do you all deal with intrusive thoughts and do they ever make you feel like your schizophrenic or something else
I've dealt with sexual, pedophilic, violent
Any advice
You are really giving me some tough one's. I met a notorious pedophile when I was in my Teens and have Studied Sexually Intrusive thoughts when I was younger. I will get my Brain into gear and see what I can come up with. They are not classed as Schizophrenia. The last I hear in the 1990's around 60 percent of men and 40 percent of women are attracted to a younger person and the reason is actually a natural biological urge to mate with the healthiest person for a stronger offspring. This is part of the reason. The other happens when as a child a person becomes sexually aware and has an attraction to a similar age group and carries that attraction as they grow up. Other reasons are an attraction to Innocence or to gain sex easily. The problem with fantasies is they can be Habit Forming and hard to shake off. As you get older your Hormones that give you sexual urges are produced in lower numbers and your urges are less frequent. I gather you do not want these thoughts and want to switch them off. It all returns to the thought programming. Be the Master of your own mind. Fantasies are generally not harmful to others unless you are obsessed and might want to go one step further. You then have Fear of the shame, being caught or hurting a person. I think like a HERO and this prevents me causing harm to anyone in any way shape or form. This is a coping mechanic I built in when I was young and it works. I also resist thoughts that are not pure and are against the Law. Being that I wired my Brain when I was young I have a head start. All solutions require effort. No challenge in mental illness is too great unless your brain has a neural defect and in that case it is not your fault. All problems have a cause and people should not be condemned too harshly, they are though' because as you know people are emotionally attached to their Sons and Daughters. RESIST. Take care. Robert.
The thoughts are definitely unwanted and didn't start until this past few months when my anxiety and OCD got out of control before that I don't have any problem with intrusive thoughts especially not what I'm dealing with now
But I know OCD feeds off fear and that's why I have these intrusive thoughts because they are all things that scare me all things opposite to my ego morals and identity
I've noticed that things that don't scare me I don't obsess about, not once have I obsessed about for example liking college football, movies, or women, but being gay, attracted to children, or insane etc. scares me creating a fear and emotional response which keeps the cycle going on the trick is training my mind not to response to the thoughts which are hard because of course they bother me their opposite to who I am
I see the cycle it's just dealing with the OCD with ERP or from finding the truth and then finding the way to break the cycle