Getting a thought lodged in the mind, hard to accept it

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Does anyone else get an obsessive thought in your mind (say, a peeve) what becomes difficult to forget about or accept? Something that bothers you so much that you can't help yourself from making a huge fuss about it, possibly even sometimes letting it trigger off an angry meltdown.

I have this all the time. When something winds me up, I just can't reverse the irritating thought, and becomes so irrational that I can't even see the logic in it any more, and it just leaves me blankly being bothered by it without really knowing why. These sorts of things are fears or peeves what you can't be talked out of or reasoned with. I call them ''pathological thoughts''.

Is this common in those on the spectrum? And I don't mean with anything, I mean with trivial things. Like I get really wound up when random strangers speak to my mum, when she doesn't know them at all. She even speaks if she's standing at the front door and some random people are walking by, and our front garden is quite big so it's not like it's right on the street because it's not, but any eye contact she makes with anyone, whoever they may be (whether it's a thuggish youth or some snotty old woman), they will speak to her. What builds up this peeve more is the way she says, ''I hate people, I never look at people, I have Social Phobia'', but I think, ''well you can't have Social Phobia if you meet everybody's eye and manage to have everyone greeting you whenever you pass someone.'' And she is a perfect example of someone with Social Phobia and extremely high anxiety disorder, and people have even said to me that she looks pissed off when in public on her own, so God knows how that could attract positive attention and get everyone greeting her if she has anxious and stressed body language and hates people, because I've always been told that people are more likely to speak to those who hold their head up high with a confident smiley face and has that knack of catching everyone's attention, but I am certain my mum does not give off that vibe no more than I do.

Sorry, just had to explain one of my peeves what wind me up. Anyone else experience getting wound up over small things what most other people wouldn't get so wound up about, and obsessing over it and letting it take over your mind? Any thoughts on how to reason with this awful thinking?

Yes, I always get like that. I just try to control my emotions because I know that I can't really control the situation or the people in it.

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I can say that I have had a couple of persistent nagging images of that nature for a very long time. Most of them involve stupid things that I did in school that I was rather embarrassed over. But one in particular...without being too descriptive because I don't want to stick that image in anyone's brain, involves being stuck with a sharp object in a very disconcerting place.

I would suggest that if this happens again, that you try to busy yourself with something else. It's not a permanent solution, but focusing on an activity could preoccupy your mind and may temporarily distract you from those thoughts.