Intrusive thoughts are thoughts coming by themselves about bad things when you are somewhat close to a violent or dangerous situation.
For instance, if you give a baby to someone with intrusive thoughts, they could momentarily have the idea of hurting the baby, even if they don’t intent to. Or such person standing near a cliff or up a bridge could have the sudden urge to jump (often called “call of the void”). Or, someone with intrusive thoughts seeing a train coming at full speed in front of them could have sudden thoughts about jumping over the rails.
But who knows. Maybe it’s just me.
it’s not generally suicidal ideation, i’d say that is a malfunction of the intrusive thought mechanism.
far as i can tell it exists as our brain simulating what could happen, we see a cliff and go “i could throw this baby off the cliff”, and we’re supposed to immediately go “jesus fuck that would be horrible, i should hold onto the baby tighter and keep an eye out for anyone else who looks like they might throw a baby off the cliff, also maybe we should do something to prevent people from being able to throw babies off the cliff”.
Intrusive thoughts are thoughts coming by themselves about bad things when you are somewhat close to a violent or dangerous situation.
For instance, if you give a baby to someone with intrusive thoughts, they could momentarily have the idea of hurting the baby, even if they don’t intent to. Or such person standing near a cliff or up a bridge could have the sudden urge to jump (often called “call of the void”). Or, someone with intrusive thoughts seeing a train coming at full speed in front of them could have sudden thoughts about jumping over the rails.
But who knows. Maybe it’s just me.
Oh, yeah, that makes sense. I just didn’t make the leap (ha) to suicidal ideation.
it’s not generally suicidal ideation, i’d say that is a malfunction of the intrusive thought mechanism.
far as i can tell it exists as our brain simulating what could happen, we see a cliff and go “i could throw this baby off the cliff”, and we’re supposed to immediately go “jesus fuck that would be horrible, i should hold onto the baby tighter and keep an eye out for anyone else who looks like they might throw a baby off the cliff, also maybe we should do something to prevent people from being able to throw babies off the cliff”.