M24 never dated or been intimate (too immature and emotionally not ready for an relationship) want to wait. However having horrible thoughts about wanting to smell a chick's armpits while she is not wearing deodorant. I have no clue why.

I don't know why I suddenly started thinking about this, but recently when I'm relaxing all I can think about is ripping out my piercings. Like yanking my septum right out of my nose or pulling my earrings down though the lobes. It's worse if I can feel the piercings by brushing it or something. I love my piercings, but these thoughts are weird. Sometimes I pull on them a little and it's all fine and dandy, but then the idea get more severe.

I guess it's a combination of "cute aggression" and just how plump and succulent she looks. I'm so sorry. I want to put that baby on a spit. Is pygmy hippo even palatable?

I'm getting to the age where I'll soon be able to live on my own, and have that taste of freedom. But watching all these videos on YouTube of predators doing these horrible things to minors kinda scares me. What if the people I like now, I still like I'm my 30's? I know this is a deep intrusive thought. But it still scares me a little.

i work in the service industry and every attractive male that i interact with, it's like i immediately imagine them taking advantage of me, SA'ing me, giving me praise, degrading me, the works. i can't get the thoughts out of my head until WELL after out interactions have ended, sometimes, depending on how attractive they are, the thoughts will last the rest of the day, or into the next day.. it just makes me feel perverted i guess. i'm so desperate for attractive men to use me, i just want it to happen to me so badly

i work in the service industry and every attractive male that i interact with, it's like i immediately imagine them taking advantage of me, SA'ing me, giving me praise, degrading me, the works. i can't get the thoughts out of my head until WELL after out interactions have ended, sometimes, depending on how attractive they are, the thoughts will last the rest of the day, or into the next day.. it just makes me feel perverted i guess. i'm so desperate for attractive men to use me, i just want it to happen to me so badly

So, I have a question. For reference, I am male, 5'5", bearded, have a lot of hair and body hair, and yeah, I am a furson too. Anyways, I have always been obsessed with wolves as a kid. That obsession only continued, if not intensified as I grew older.

Now in my mid 30s, I have been getting... urges. Some times just normal sexual urges like wanting to dominate someone and bite and scratch... but other times... it is more intense.

Recently, I have been seeing me biting and tearing off flesh, there being blood... lots of it. It got so bad that the other day I drew off about 40ml of my own blood and the smell... feel... everything was fucking exciting.

I read back in the day Berserkers would drink their own blood before battle to excite themselves and lose themselves in a frenzy... could this be something similar, but instead, it gets me ready to fuck instead of fight?

I won't be to gross, but by the end, I was covered and so was the room... but I felt so alive. Now, I have this 19 year old guy who keeps making it... weird at work. I am not going to fuck him [I discuss this elsewhere], but... damn, some days ripping out his throat feel appealing.

Has anyone else, especially wolf bros ever had this urge?

Looking for any support. I've been suffering somatic ocd, obsessive breathing, anxiety etc very badly past few weeks. But it ramped up horribly two days ago,when an intrusive thought popped in saying "what if, every time I see my wife, I'm going to make myself stop breathing". Awful, and I've spent the past 49 hours obsessing. My question is - the thought started two days ago, and I've not reacted - no trying to stop breathing etc. On this basis, can I just put it down as an intrusive thought ONLY, and try to move on?. All help and advice gratefully received. It's absolute hell

The school i go to has a lot of sexy girls. I know it’s wrong but like once every like six months i get a sudden weird thought about doing this.

Obviously I’ve never done this. Went to a psychologist and they said it was normal. I sometimes isolate myself as to not hurt anyone. What do i do. Everytime it happens it makes me feel sick to my stomach and i despise myself for even having these thoughts

Hi There,

I know you guys have been really trying hard and for some it may not be working. I want to share this method which has really helped me manage the situation a lot better. They completely went away after few weeks making it easier every day. Please take a look at this : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TRqZVjB-ZF4

My significant other and I were watching a true crime doc and he asked me if I ever think about killing him (girl on the show fantasized about killing some guy). I told him that I’ve thought about it a few times especially when he makes me really mad, I never would though. Is this just me or is this something that happens to other people too?

Ok so this is a pretty random scenario but hopefully someone can help because it's been happening for too long and I need to open up.

About a month and a half ago I was on a call with my friends and we were talking about an EPQ which is basically a thing at school where you can write a study on anything. Anyway, I was talking about doing one on addiction and social pressure because it is all around me as a mid-teenager. After I got off the call I was still thinking about it but I was thinking more about why I was so invested in this topic, I mean I've never smoked or drunk before and I have a really strong moral to stand by that for the rest/majority of my life and with me also having bad experience with it on friends in the past that also may be a reason but idk. Anyway, when I went to bed I was on my phone on TikTok and YouTube but the thought remained still in my head for some reason. As I watched the thought remained on my mind and I would question if this person smokes or that person smokes and if it's a normal thing I'm just different and weird for thinking its like really bad. This started to really frustrate me as I just wanted to think normally like everyone else my age about smoking and think it's not that bad and I was questioning "Why is this still on my mind it's not even that deep". It was like my mind was in conflict with the rest of my body - I wanted to move on but my mind had other plans of keeping this thought in my head. I couldn't get the thought out of my mind and I kept trying different things like listening to music and listening to a podcast, I even tried throwing up because I think by this point I was having an anxiety attack. It took me about 4 hours to go to sleep that night. I woke up in the morning with the thought still on my mind and I tried vaguely explaining it to my dad because it was so weird I didn't want to fully explain it you know. I went to school tho that day and it got better with all the distractions and I think the intrusive thought was gone. I tried to explain to friends, "Imagine you thought of a random object and it just stuck with you in your head and wouldn't go away" and used a plant pot as a "random object". That week things got better and the thought would only pop up in my head as just a thought every now and then and I guess I was scared of the thought. Anyway, two weeks passed after that, and after doing a bunch of research figuring out it was probably an intrusive thought. I was frustrated and fearful as to why it was still bothering me and would just pop up every now and then. Because of this fear, I would start doing a thing where I would take a random thought or thing I've seen and it would just be stuck in my mind, it would surpass within some minutes but every now and then that random thought would pop up in the upcoming days or weeks and this is still happening now. There would be days where I would be happier and the thoughts weren't bothering me as much and days where they were making me so fearful and it wasn't like I just had a specific intrusive thought on my mind it was more like I had a fear of the intrusive thoughts as a whole on my mind like all the time and this would annoy me and scare me as I couldn't really take my mind off of it. It's now been as I said at the start, a month and a half, and I'm currently on school break for the week and with fewer distractions because of no school it's been quite hard for me and I just want this to stop so I'm writing this.

Its also because its not like the 'normal' intrusive thoughts of thoughts telling you to do something or anything like that so that's what I'm also confused about

Anyway, if you read this and have any idea what this is I would be so so appreciative if you could say something thank you

(ENGLISH ISN'T MY FIRST LANGUAGE!!)

14 female somebody please help me, i keep having the same intrusive thoughts for 7 months now. they are about my brother, the intrusive thoughts are that i am in love with him and that i want to have sex with him. i know i don't want to, but sometimes my head confuses me and makes me think that i do want to. this is terrifying me and i can't look at my brother the same way anymore. for a few days now i keep having these intrusive thought that he's in love with me too and i'm really scared. please help

also, this is my first time using reddit. i downloaded the app because i just wanted to talk about this with anyone.

OMG SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME I HAVE HAD THESE BAD INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS ABT EATING STUFF LIKE WET HAIR AND SHIT AND IM BARELY A TEEN AND I ALSO GET THESE HORRIFYING IMAGES IN MY HEAD DUE TO ANXIETY (the type of stuff u see in horror movies)AND IVE HAD THIS ISSUE SINCE I WAS A CHILD DUE TO MAYBE SOME TRAUMA IDR PLEASE HELP T-T

I wanna do it i wanna kill myself i wanna hurt myself i wanna chop my hands and fingers off maybe then I'll be happier, then i cant make art, i cant write, maybe then I'll get the help i need maybe ill actually die for once from the bloodloss maybe I'll value things better i hate myself so much but im not this person, i shouldnt do this

so my intrusive thoughts are usually related to horrible things i could say. i get other types as well, but this type is by far the one that affects me the most.

so normally whenever i'm in an important social interaction, i'll start obsessively thinking about the most vulgar, inappropriate, offensive, and embarassing things i could say in that moment and then imagining their reaction if i said that. i start feeling extremely embarassed even if i didn't actually say anything. it drives me crazy and i think this is the source if a lot of my social anxiety.

just some examples: if a woman is interviewing me for a job, i will start obsessively thinking about what slurs i could call her. if a teacher is talking to me i'll imagine myself telling him that i jack off to him. if i'm in a quiet room with other people or listening to a presentation i'll start imagining myself screaming something really offensive at the top of my lungs and watching everyone's head turn to look at me in disbelief. if i'm talking to my family i will keep imagining the most embarassing and inappropriate things i could say to them.

obviously none of the things i think about saying are genuine or true but i still get scared that i might actually say that, just because i'm thinking about it. i often fold up my tongue in my mouth because i feel like i'm going to say it, and i always get anxiety before going to talk to someone because i'm scared that i'm going to say something inappropriate.

i'm curious if other people have the same experience and would also love to get advice with overcoming these thoughts if anyone has any. i have struggled with this most of my life.

Sometimes lately when my cats lie on top of me and look me in the eyes & I stare back I get intrusive thoughts to hurt them. I don't want to harm my cat. It may be due to trauma but idk. It happens randomly & throughout the day actually. It kills me inside because it happens when I pet them, when I get close to them. I just want them to go away

i saw someone say that your body wont let you snap your own neck and now i want to do it. i keep almost trying and its stressing me tf out. im actually so scared that im going to hurt myself, i really dont want to but im scared i will.

Thoughts of suicide and self harm plague my mind every single day, ways on how to do it like blowing my head off with a shotgun or rifle, hanging, overdosing, jumping, bleeding out, drowning etc.. also horrible thoughts of hurting people around me tho i know i would never do that or want to do that, i also wont stop telling myself how dumb and stupid i am constantly and that i should just do it and get over with it so that nobody is bothered by my existence anymore

Throwaway because these are disturbing and violent thoughts.

Tldr: I have romantic feeling toward a woman, but they are mixed with hatred for her and violent, gruesome thoughts about hurting her.

I often have violent thoughts toward women. Cutting them open, drinking and bathing in their blood, putting their heads on sticks, etc. More recently, any time I have romantic feelings toward a woman, my mind inevitably goes to my morbid desires.

There is a specific one I have been talking to, and a couple days ago we were hanging out playing mario party. She was being extremely flirtatious the whole night, constantly getting up to show me her ass, moving ever closer to me on the couch, and a multitude of other actions that were obvious to me as flirtation.

The whole time, I felt an intense mixture of desire, longing, and hatred, mixed with the aforementioned thoughts of cutting her during sex. I don't want to hurt her, but after that night, I don't know what to do. I am torn between reciprocating her feelings with the risk of giving in to my fantasies and huring or possibly killing her, and cutting all contact with her out of fear of what I might do to her.

To start off, me and my family have a LOT of cats, more than 7 outside cats with some kittens inside. One of the mama cats outside had some kittens and me and my mom took them in so she wouldn't neglect them.

Recently, one of the young kittens (Jun) has been clingy to me and we cuddle under my blanket, but now I've been getting really really bad intrusive thoughts about putting her in the microwave and turning it on, and it's moved on to the other kittens inside as well, I've realized that being outside calmed down my thoughts but I can't do it every single time.

Please help, I haven't told my mom that her 15 year old daughter has really bad thoughts about the kittens we love, I need ways to calm them or stop them, please.

36 Male I’ve had it all, anything intrusive sexually, cheating, P-OCD you name it…

My newest one is, at work or out and about if I talk to a pretty woman, lets say at work most the times it’s hard not to with my job, or gas station teller just being friendly…

Does anyone else have intrusive thoughts when talking to someone that is attractive? Of let’s say cheating, or sexually etc and your possibly have an erection type feeling, but you wouldn’t cheat, or ever do anything like that.

Reason I ask is because I was googling it and it’s called “Groinal Response”, and said it’s normal with people that have intrusive thoughts, I just wanna know that this is normal because I feel awful after where done talking or I think I’m flirting…… Anyone else?

So lately I been going through theses thoughts where I’ll just be thinking I always have bad thoughts but lately they been making me thinking about SA and I never SA anyone and don’t want to my overthinking mixing With intrusive thoughts is so bad and I don’t know what to do I’ve been going through this change where a lot of shit it’s just changing but this is normal cause it happens every year every month in the same 3 last months of the year