Disturbing thoughts

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Lets say (just as an example), that you hate something but certain thoughts that favor it try to force themselves in your head and you find yourself constantly trying to flush them out. Lets just say its been driving me insane for years now, and I dont know what to do about it. Im not saying I will ever give in but does anyone else have this problem?

I've had it lately when I was really depressed. Maybe it wasn't at all what you mean though. The Celexa helps a great deal.

Yeah it happens especially when I want to favor a certain idea but then the opposing thoughts start bombarding my brain.

Now that you explain it more: that also happened a lot before in the way you describe, and then I got over it... it made me open-minded.

I am openminded, very much so. But Im just saying that there are always thoughts that nag me and its annoying having to deal with them. Usually I talk back to them in my head and it works but sometimes it comes out vocally by accident Its hard to explain to whoever heard me scream "No!" from what seems to be out of nowhere to them

Risperdal has been approved for use by the FDA in people with Autism spectrum disorders.
I know cuz my psychiatrist just put me on it a few weeks ago and I looked it up.
It has helped me from the obsessive thoughts. I told him I had this problem where my record only had one groove and I couldn't pick up the needle (a metaphor for those of you over 35), and bango, he prescribed Risperdal.
I gotta say, it has helped. I'm even more manic than ever, but changing moods is better than being stuck on negativo.

Im not obsessed with the thoughts though, I cant stand them.. I dont understand

Exactly, me too.. but they swallowed me up sometimes, it was incredibly dangerous, and now I'm on antidepressants and they only bother me when I'm off them.

These hit me hard and random, and at their worst are crippling. (Nap time, anyone?) I've been there. Good luck to ye.

I get these thoughts often. However having an understanding of the workings of my mind and AS has helped me take away the shame of having awful thoughts (for me it's the shame that hurts more than the thoughts) When I play with my little boy who I love and adore, I get horrible thoughts that come into my head.

I now understand that his gentleness and beauty provoke such thoughts as a way of managing the anxiety of being TOUCHED very very deeply.

Before my diagnoses I thought I was mad, bad and evil, and suffered increasingly severe bouts of depression with re this mystery. As the cloud of unknowing is being lifted, I still get uncomfortable thoughts, but they are easer to manage. I thank you username for bringing this subject up and wish you well
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This is OCD. I just started treatment for OCD a few weeks ago, and as part of that treatment was recommended this book: The OCD Workbook. One of the forms of OCD listed reads like this:

Mmaestro your right in seeing my intrusive thoughts as OCD, though I would advise you to be a little less confrontational with other members with re diagnosing them on line.

I have had this diagnoses of OCD for many years and have had some excellent help and support. Having suffered severe abuse as a child and struggled with severe depersonalization and depression, it takes some skill (the art of which I am slowly refining) to understand the de compromising strategies of AS and my particular patterning of OCD which after many years of therapy I have come to see as a first line of defense against overwhelming pain.

I wish you well Mmaestro & thanks for your response.
chris

Apologies, the tone wasn't supposed to sound confrontational at all, just trying to supply the info that obsessive thoughts like this can be OCD.

No worries Mmaestro, apologies accepted, in fact I am very grateful for yr information. go well my friend.

i get disturbing thoughts, mostly when im walking. like i'll see flashbacks of me throwing myself infront of a car haha,