Intrusive thoughts.

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I have suffered from them for the past 10 years or more. If you don't know what it is, it's explained perfectly here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusive_thought

Anybody else have this problem?

Ugh, yes. Some of them are recurring and others are sort of one-time deals. It's quite frustrating. I really don't know if I'm having them any more or less than a "normal" person would though.

At some points in my life, I would have them all day long, about everything.

I have a horrible "voice" in my mind that has been saying "doomed... Doomed.... DOOMED!" for many years. Eventually I told it to either kill me already or go away, because I was sick of being perpetually doomed.

Happens to me all the time. It's really bad when you're having a conversation with someone and this happens and causes you to inadvertently change the subject or lose rhythm and train of thought.

I had this problem a lot as a child growing up in a religious home. I remember hearing the quote from Jesus about how anyone who blasphemed the Holy Spirit could never be forgiven, and I would struggle with unwanted thoughts that tormented me about that possibility. I would also play this "game" (not that I wanted to) in my head where if I didn't perform a certain action at a specific time I'd lose my soul to the devil.

Now that I'm older (and have had the benefit of formal theological training), I'm mostly free of those thoughts. I no longer see God as arbitrarily putting these scary thoughts into my head.

Although I'll admit that I sometimes fall back into the forfeiting my soul idea if I don't get the next piece of paper inserted into the paper shredder before the motor stops running. It's stupid but it does cross my thoughts now and then.

All the time and they're fairly random. I try not to engage them. The thought enters my mind and I acknowledge it, but then I move on, or try to. It's harder when the thought relates to something I am anxious about.

I have an intrusive thought almost everyday that my house is on firer and my animals are dying. I know it's not true but the thought enters my mind and makes it hard to concentrate. On my way home I hope that my home and animals are o.k.

I also get random songs and T.V show tunes stuck in my head and it plays over and over again. This week it has been the Sesame Street Song from Sesame Street. " Can you tell me how to get how to get to Sesame Street" I have not watched it for many years. It just plays over and over again. I catch myself singing it out loud.

I had them when my OCD was bad but I quit having them when my OCD got better by taking Neurontin/Gabapentin.

Yes, I have suffered ongoing intrusive thoughts for much of my life (currently thirty-three years of age). It can be frustrating, as while they frequently manipulate my shame and fear at other times I can seem to be almost drawn to these thoughts, encouraging them in ways that could probably be easily avoided.

I wish I knew; I think that I have it mildly, but my thoughts do not fit into any of these narrow categories:

I'm having intrusive thoughts right now about things that are really upsetting to me.

I had depressive thoughts that would qualify as intrusive thoughts based on that wiki link. They got really bad a couple years ago. Then once I figured out my sensitivity to salicylate acids & how to detox them via epsom salts on my skin, I haven't really had any since.

That sucks!

Are you Nintendo's CEO by chance (they are always being told they are doomed by the media and co.)?

I do regularly get these kinds of thoughts in my head, a lot when I am stressed or trying to drift off to sleep.
I regularly get voice of my mother yelling at me, my grandmother yelling at me, and sometimes others...

I'm constantly plagued by all sorts of tormenting thoughts, some of which I would prefer to not mention because of their rather dark and sometimes vulgar nature, which seem to come at the least convenient times. Not sure if anyone else has this exact problem but one of the things that really irks me is certain awkward surfaces like cardboard cup holders and certain loud noises. If I hear/touch the thing it gets stuck in my head for awhile and flat out annoys me