#Intrusive Thoughts

[syn4k]

[helpforintrusivethoughts]

hey there lovelies! I’m sorry I haven’t been very active on here; life has been…lifeing, haha. Just wanted to let you all know I’ve made several updates to this (primarily to the ap and focus sites/playlists section) 🫶

Resources 🌼

(Updated regularly)

🪷 Emergency resource: oh no I’m having a bad thought

🌻 Apps and Games

Finch: mental health app where you care for a little bird! Offers many features such as focus timers, rant zones, nature sounds, fun questions, and more! You can even make friends on it and send them encouragement :) (my friend code)

Adorable Home: a precious game in which you have a tiny spouse, cats, and a little house you can decorate! You can check in and enjoy peaceful music, different scenes, and upgrades through collecting tiny hearts you earn through easy tasks! A truly adorable and relaxing game!

Seashine: a game set underwater in which you guide a tiny luminescent jellyfish through the abyss. Beautiful, relaxing music and distant whale noises; some scary enemies, so if you have thalassophobia this might not be the one for you. Very calming otherwise though, and the creator is coming out with an enemy-free version soon in which you can just float around to the music!

Cat Snack Bar: an adorable app where you operate different business venues with the help of chubby, adorable cats! You check in periodically to collect money and update your venue, but otherwise it doesn't require much brain power. A very cute game to help you relax!

Webtoon: a comic app that allows you to browse thousands of creative and often relaxing webcomics!

1010!: a fun little game where you match up blocks. Fairly simple and satisfying, and you can update your backgrounds to fun designs!

Papa's Cupcakeria: a relaxing and satisfying game where you make cupcakes! And of course there’s a whole series of games in the Papa Louie universe to choose from that are fun and calming :)

Libby: library app that lets you sign in with however many library cards you possess and place holds on/check out books or audiobooks that you can then read in the app; the books are automatically returned for you on their due date, so you never have to worry about them being

Kinder World: app where you raise plants, track emotions, and can send and receive encouraging notes to/from strangers!

🪸 Fun Websites

Neal.fun: features many creative pages you can visit such as— a stack of movable rocks, a page that shows how deep the ocean really goes, who was alive [insert year], draw logos from memory, and more!

mrdoob.com: a wacky website with lots of fun features you can draw and mess around with

boredbutton: for when you're bored out of your mind and want a pointless website to mess with!

theuselessweb.com: takes you to a completely useless website, such as a page where it rains corndogs or a page where you can create different forms of art.

ashortjourney.com: lets you take a small and beautifully drawn trip on a trolley and pick up/drop off tiny creatures!

Forestopia: allows you to explore images of forests and the things inside, with background forest noises!

boredpanda.com: full of memes, funny stories, and more!

listverse: contains many lists, some horrifying (so be warned for those) and some just fascinating!

🍄 Focus Sites and Playlists

rainymood.com: a site/app that lets you listen to rain for as long as you want!

asoftmurmur.com: lets you listen to a variety of sounds like rain, thunder, or a fire!

Open ocean: 10 hours of underwater videography of a spot in the ocean!

imissmycafe.com: site that lets you listen to the noises of a coffee shop! You can change the different noises too :)

WindowSwap: lets you go through windows around the world! You can log in and save your favorites, and make it fullscreen if you need to study and want a nice thing in the background to keep you from distractions. 

Secret Forest Playlist: peaceful music; 2 hours

Rain on Leaves on a Forest Road in Autumn: rain in the woods; 10 hours

Haunted Village Halloween Ambience: eerie but quiet music; 3 hours

Relaxing Autumn/Fall Forest: sounds of wind, crows, songbirds, and creaking trees; 7 hours

Chill Beats for Worldbuilding and Writing: gentle lofi music; 1 hour

It's Just a Dream/Dreamcore: Very peaceful and ambient music; 4 hours

Sad Piano Music: beautiful piano pieces by Jurrivh; 6 hours

The Most Relaxing Waves Ever: beach noises; 8 hours

Rural Autumn Ambience and Music: gentle autumn-y music; 1 hour

soft music for the end of the world: soft instrumental pieces (mainly piano); 6 hours

medieval peasant vibes: medieval remixes of famous songs and generally tavern-sounding music; 8 hours

intrusive thoughts: songs related to intrusive thinking that personally help me feel less alone; 2 hours

liminal core: liminal-inspired music; no singing; 2 hours

abandoned castle in the woods: ancient/fantasy vibe songs and instrumentals; 4 hours

Huge Thunderstorm Approaches You in Mountains: distant thunder and wind ambience; 3 hours

Wind Blowing Across the Forest Meadow: wind rustling through grasses; 8 hours

Asian Mum to Help You Focus on Studying: guy roleplaying as an Asian mum who checks in on you every few minutes to make sure you’re working; background house and cooking ambience; 4 hours

Abandoned Palace Garden Ambience: bird sounds and soft music; 4 hours

Have your own recommendations? Drop a comment or ask!

[vexwerewolf]

I think the most fucked up thing about intrusive thoughts is it's really difficult to discuss them without discussing their content, because without a discussion of their content it's impossible to get across just how distressing and debilitating they are. "Oh, you have unpleasant thoughts sometimes? Yeah we all have that, I guess."

But if you discuss their content there's this huge risk of people just pulling away in disgust. "Oh god, you have THOSE sorts of thoughts? They should lock freaks like you the fuck up!" As if they think people act on every single thought they have.

[beenovel]

Ok I’m having a slight mental breakdown about the sun the last couple days (idk what’s happening but every time the sun touches me I get these horrible intrusive thoughts like “I’m not wearing sunscreen, my skin is going to peel off my body, I’m going to get melanoma and die of sun cancer”) so to reassure myself and spread awareness here are the signs of melanoma and when to get it checked by a doctor:

[woughs]

via treatmyocd ✨🙏🏻

[housegoblin]

let's get burgers 48 "air conditioner"

[accessibleaesthetics]

I don’t know who needs to hear this today, but intrusive thoughts are basically your brain’s (sometimes very upsetting) way of saying “If there were two guys on the moon and one of them killed the other with a rock would that be fucked up or what?”

I’ve personally found that adding the “would that be fucked or what?” part in myself really helps put the more disturbing thoughts we sometimes get into perspective. Helps me say “yeah thar sure would be fucked up” and move on with my day.

It’s not a secret desire, it’s not something that only occurs to you because you’re a bad person. It’s just your brain deciding to process the fact that it knows an uncomfortable thing exists in the world by feeding it to you in an absurd “what if” with you as the main character.

[manincaffeine]

Do you ever get really depressed or stressed and want really rough gross sex as a coping mechanism or are you normal.

[radioactive-yuri]

"de-stigmatize mental illness!" very cool now can you please extend like one or two ounces of support towards people who have intrusive thoughts related to sexual violence.

[lolapath]

Ahhh my favourite drink 🍷 the og post (Ig?)

[underwhelmingalchemist]

*mom voice* You can get these words back when you know what they mean

[sunderingstars]

ocd is literally just having a guy in your head that torments you with false prophecies & visions

[awful-desires]

:')

I’m having a particularly bad episode of OCD today and wanted to remind everyone as well as myself.

Your intrusive thoughts and urges do not reflect who you are as a person.

Your intrusive thoughts and urges do not make you sick or evil.

Your intrusive thoughts and urges do not mean you are a despicable human being.

They do not mean any of the above, or any of the other lies your brain might conjure. (You’re twisted. You’re perverted. You deserve death. You deserve to never be happy. To always be alone. To always feel guilty. And the list goes on).

What your intrusive thoughts and urges do mean is that you’re struggling, and it’s hard, and sometimes you want to give up and disappear forever.

But your intrusive thoughts and urges do not define you. They do not have control over you, they do not have charge of your brain. They are not going to drag you under for the rest of your life, even if it feels like that right now. You will overcome this, and you will pound those stupid thoughts into the earth, no matter how long it takes.

You are not your intrusive thoughts.

Your intrusive thoughts are not you.

[verdantmeadows]

I don't think there's enough visibility for people who have bigoted intrusive thoughts (unwanted, uncontrollable thoughts) especially for those who aren't part of the groups the thoughts are bigoted towards. So shout-out to everyone who has these intrusive thoughts. People with racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic, xenophobic, ableist, and anything else. Your intrusive thoughts don't define you and don't define how you truly feel about different groups of people. Your intrusive thoughts don't make you a bigot.

[hurristuff]

For this Disability Pride Month, I saw a post that was shittybad and it made me angry. So have this