abilify and intrusive thoughts

So I've had anxiety my entire life and up till now have been able to manage it but this most recent span of time is really rough. I ended up depressed and have what I can only assume is derealization...but my anxious feelings are gone. Still have the intrusive thoughts though and that's what is causing the problem. Before my anxiety is what reassured me the thoughts weren't on purpose but without that my intrusive thoughts cause more doubt towards my "self".

Hello Ken, I have been suffering from intrusive thoughts about harming my children for the last month. It's unbearable and I cause myself anxiety, guilt, and depression for feeling these thoughts. I don't know where these thoughts are coming from since I have a supportive family unit and never have had thoughts like this before. I get a little anxiety when I have to take care of them myself for fear of driving myself crazy! I love them more than anything in the world!

I day dream a lot and think up different scenarios if someone had said this or that and sometimes like you said, in shows, im very inquisitve and i sometimes look into things more than necessary. I also sometimes get intrusive thoughts and images that are hard to go away and sometimes i wonder if im crazy but idk.

I experience intrusive thoughts and have done for quite some time of the more violent and sexual nature which always left me very depressed and distressed but those have calmed down as of late. However recently something else has been distressing me which I'm not sure if it's actually OCD or not. I've been experiencing unwanted thoughts about me attention seeking.

it scares me to death! so i went to my doctor and was put on an SSRI (its been about 2 weeks now) the thoughts have went from that to feeling like a pedo and seeing males on tv thinking "do i think hes attractive" (i know im not gay, i like women, its just like these triggers are making me think otherwise) Will this ever go away? its ruining my life basically and wont let me enjoy life like i did a month ago :( please write back thanks.

Intrusive thoughts like that are present in OCD, PTSD and GAD. In OCD you have obsessive thoughts that only seem to be eased by actions, such as researching, cleaning, locking, counting, many things. For instance I used to have a constant anxiety of having a medical condition, so I would regularly check my pulse, look at my skin color, check my temp ( I would carry around a thermometer) and kept a medical diagnosis book beside my bed that I would read everyday.

I have not even thought of doing what i said from before because i scared me so much and it finally went away on its own. Seems like people who suffer from intrusive thoughts get that. They come and go. I would never harm anyone or anything. I know this cause it makes me sick to my stomach to even have these thoughts.

As I reread your mail, what you have is NOT intrusive or racing thoughts which are also popular among BP patients and happen to all of us. Intrusive thoughts are usually peaceful thoughts but confusing and overlap with your thinking so that you can't move forward and can - as truly ILADVOCATE - mentioned mask sometimes psychotic thoughts. Rather, I believe what you feel is what we call mixed states and occurs to me all the times when i reduce my antipsychotics.

I have read and read and read all about OCD and intrusive thoughts, mostly about when you fear that you will harm someone else. But I have these awful intrusive thoughts about my spouse hurting children (but I know he never would in a million years). For whatever reason, hurting children has always been somehting my OCD has focused on and worried about. So my intrusive thoughts aren't about me doing the harm but about my loved one doing harm. Has anyone else experienced that?

I have been getting intrusive thoughts for about 7 months now finding it quite hard to deal with but i'm beginning to understand the science behind how it all works but, i have the most horrific thoughts ever and am finding the GUILT extremeley difficult to cope with do you have any methods or mind excerises i can do to help reduce that awful guilty feeling.

Needless to say, I was very surprise with the diagnosis. So I did alot of research and found a OCD on intrusive thoughts. However my intrusisve thoughts are not typical of what I found during my research. I seem to be at my worse after a social situation or dealing with a difficult situation at work. Even when life is good, I will reflect on a memory from years ago (going back even 20 + years), and out comes the f-bomb. Most of my verbal outburst are self degrading.

It would be a good idea to talk with a counselor, the way a person should over any intrusive thoughts that keep them from a normal happy life. In the DNA/Paternity community we see all the time that women with guilty consciences over sex with the wrong guy often settle on obsessing over dates (even in the face of all facts and evidence), because it is easier to brood over that, than it is to accept that one did something that is against one's values.

I know when I had intrusive thoughts they were because of a mixed episode... If you're bipolar, you shouldn't just be on an antidepressant. Just an antidepressant on someone with a mood disorder will end up raising your mood too far when you start swinging up... There are several types of antipsychotics, I would definitely talk to the doc about a different one to treat you.

Anyways, i am taking 10 mg of Lexapro, and 450 of Lamectal, and he said that he felt that i should try Abilify. He made a small under his breathe note that my insurance may not cover it. i didnt understand what he meant, and he said it was because of the cost, so i am not sure i am really going to take it. tomarrow i am going to go back to his office and ask for a sample before i actually go to the pharmacy and fork out money i dont really have.

I also have this this feeling that when i look at my son and i dont have urge to jump and kiss him euphoricaly that i am bad dad. Then i challenge intrusive thoughts to try to prove my self that i will not react badly in any theorethical situation just to prove my self i am good dad. So i guess that my theory that excessive worry and anxiety can lead to this.

This was a while ago but i got mad at someone and i had very violent intrusive thoughts and images playing in my mind and because i was angry i had voices saying how i hate them and everything and when i get mad i feel like im boiling or like someones putting gasoline all over me and i get urges to act out and i go with it some guy recently told him when i got in a fight i pushed him and i noticed i blacked out i usually black out alot and i really didnt remember

Having intrusive thoughts is a different thing. You said you tried masturbating while thinking about men and now feel worse. Maybe you were just experimenting with your sexuality. Have you ever thought you might be gay but fear the social stigma attached to it - like really thought about it. If you feel so bad after all this time, on the surface it seems like you are homophobic. Did you talk to your therapist about it?

Hello this is my first post here. I'm 17 years old male from Serbia. Ahh, I don't even know where to start. So, I ''felt'' my first symptoms 10 months ago I think. Back in those days, I was playing my favorite video game in one clan. And I have no idea how, but I started to feel some sort of need. I had to hear just a good comments about my performance and all. If someone said that I played bad, I'd feel all depressed and miserable.

So I have tried to come to terms with the fact that I have it. I have a lot of intrusive thoughts and compulsions but one thing I'm struggling with. I will just give a background so that it can help you distinguish it because I can't. My OCD consists of the intrusive thoughts of: "Drink 4 bottles of water or your brother drowns tonight" but this only happens during school hours since we go to the same school.

Those are called "intrusive thoughts", and unlike someone with a TRUE intent of acting on these thoughts, there is a difference....in someone with an anxiety disorder, you don't put those thoughts there, it is involuntary, which is why they are called "intrusive thoughts", and the person with the antisocial type personality disorder, for example...who would be prone to violence....often causes those thoughts and acts on them. Has a TRUE intent, other words.

I have an anxiety disorder and for a while I had horrible intrusive thoughts. Thoughts about hurting myself or others, thoughts about dying, thoughts about lots of awful things. I was told that my hormones were out of whack and my anxiety was causing a physical reaction of fear, and my mind was trying to justify it by thinking of awful things that would make me feel that way. Kinda weird, and I don't know if it's true, but I suppose it kind of makes sense.

am afraid he is real, thinking that we are created by someone (God) make me very anxious and I get terrible fear. But yes,fbelieveing helped me about my suicide thoughts and gave me hope, but sometimes I still have that very strong pathological fear of him. I fear also paranormal things, aliens etc...

OCD *****. I have the same irrational thoughts and I've found the best thing to do with the irrational cheating thoughts is talk about it. ocd is like a monster in your head that feeds off negative reinforcement. So the more we think about the negative thought the more we feed the monster, the fatter he gets and the more room he takes up in our head space. Perhaps try breaking the feeding cycle.. And starve the lil ******!

I'm 16 weeks pregnant and have been having obsessive thoughts that my boyfriend might not be the father even though I've not had sex with anyone else. These have been going on since I was about 10 weeks pregnant and I've obviously got a long road ahead of me til the baby is here. I literally cannot take it anymore, it's like living in a nightmare.

so i’m a 14 year old girl and i’ve recently been depressed because of intrusive thoughts. i think of everyone in a sexual way and this includes my family. i cant even be around them without thinking about it and it’s ruining me. i know i don’t actually want to **** my family but these thoughts won’t leave my brain. and i had a couple incidents with my brother. he is severely autistic so he’s not responsive to these things mostly. like 4 or 5 years ago i didn’t know what a ball sack felt like???

Hi there, I'm 18 and about 4 months ago I came out as Gay. Before coming out I experienced a traumatic breakdown, not knowing how to accept myself for who I was. But in time and with support of friends I was able to accept in and be happy. For the first time in almost a year I was finally happy. I had found myself a boy friend and all was going well. And then on a holiday I had a horrible thought that I have since not been able to let go of. I have never in my life questioned my gender.

Hello, Although this is years after your post, I wanted to tell you you are not alone. I have OCD (obsessive, scary and disgusting intrusive thoughts). They REALLY bother me because I too do my best to be careful about what I watch and listen to and am very intentional to protect my mind. When I am on my medication (Lexapro), thoughts do not bother me and I am totally fine. However, I have had to go off the meds throughout the years and sure enough the issue comes back.

I have been having these weird, traumatized thoughts about a former co worker. These thoughts have been infecting my feelings as well, and they are causing me to not feel like myself and depressed. I'm in a relationship. This former co worker was recently arrested for kidnapping and lewd conduct with a child. It's not in my nature to think and feel like this. What do you guys think?

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