Asklemmy

44115 readers

600 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

What is an intrusive thought you feel like you are only a couple steps away from indulging? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 week ago by Mandy to c/[email protected]

66 comments fedilink hide all child comments

As for me:
Due to Christmas rapidly approaching my place earns increasing amounts of money.
It would be so easy to just snag a whole day of store income and forever vanish into another country.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Trigger Warning: Attempts of ending my own life

spoiler

Going to the nearest bridge and just jump off.

And um...

when I was a kid...

So I saw a knife in my kitchen when I was a kid (like maybe 12 or 13), I just thought "what if I sliced my throat" I held the knife like maybe 5 inches from my throat, then survival instincts kicked in and I put it back, then I got scared of dying for a while. Never told anyone. I wasn't even diagnosed with depression back then, so probably not even being suicidal, just a weird thought that popped in my head.

My parents was being shitty at the time, so idk if that was really suicial thoughts or intrusive thoughts.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

It's called "L'appel du vide" or "call of the void" and quite normal.

It's an old instinct to think through the consequences of dangerous things instead of actually doing them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Oh wow that's crazy i had the same thing happen

Spoiler

But it was my left wrist

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I don't think those are intrusive thoughts, at least that's not what mine are like.