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Is there a mental disorder where you have repetitive thoughts and can’t focus on other things?

Feb 24

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Question by ILovePizza: Is there a mental disorder where you have repetitive thoughts and can’t focus on other things?
Things will replay in my mind over and over again. It’s just constant chaos and usually in a negative state. I’ll try to focus on something else like writing or exercising and will still feel the same way. I’ve been to several therapists but it hasn’t helped. I do know I have social anxiety. The thoughts are usually about what people have said about me in the past or how they have treated me. I’m hardly ever happy and when I try it usually lasts for a few seconds.

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Answer by hope
Sounds to me like you have low self esteem-which goes hand in hand with social anxiety too! Try reading some self help books to help improve your self esteem. I highly recommend overcoming low self esteem by Melanie Fennel as this has helped me loads. You can find it cheap on amazon or ebay and it explains why we develop low self esteem and there is a section in the back which gives you techniques and activities using CBT to help you.
Another thing you could try is hypnosis CD, there are ones for building self esteem but if anything it will give you a chance to relax and focus your thoughts on the music playing.

Good luck

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What is the disorder of having disturbing thoughts from your past called?

Feb 4

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Question by Sonic Raider: What is the disorder of having disturbing thoughts from your past called?
Whether I see something, hear something, read something, etc. that reminds of someone or someting from my past that made me angry &/or sad. I get all these disturbing thoughts that have to do with that particular person/moment in my life and I lose control. It disrupts me from what I have been doing at the time, it sometimes gets so bad that I start hitting myself, hitting other things, &/or letting out a scream and they go away temporarily.

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Answer by KittyIsAround
Posttraumatic stress disorder.

Hope you get well soon!

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Can you have intrusive thoughts and not have a personality disorder?

Jan 8

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Question by 卍 Heil Buddha 卍: Can you have intrusive thoughts and not have a personality disorder?
Does it depend on the thoughts? Or are they common even among healthy individuals?

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Answer by elbobbo
I think everyone has intrusive thoughts to some extent, I think how intense / often and how you react to them defines the extent of disorder. (I firmly believe that everyone is screwed up in some way or other)

So it’s possible I think

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Are obsessive thoughts a symptom of bipolar disorder?

Oct 16

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Question by Lady Lex: Are obsessive thoughts a symptom of bipolar disorder?
I have been told by a previous psychiatrist that it is possible that I have bipolar disorder and diagnosed me with bipolar disoreder NOS. I struggle with obsessive thoughts that occur on a cycle, when my mood is not stable. They usually focus on death, sex, and religion, but also have been about certain people or activities. I cannot control them at all. They get so bad that I can’t concentrate in class or study.

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Answer by ♥Kazz♥
I have bipolar type 2 and I have thoughts that keep going around in my head at times – eg. I was on holiday in a highrise apartment that had balconys – every time one day I went out onto the balcony I kept having thoughts of … it would be fun to climb the railing on the balcony and hang over the side (we were on the 14th floor) I would then physically shake my head and tell myself dont be stupid you will slip and fall – I could go maybe 2 minutes at the most and the thought again popped into my head that it would be fun to climb it and hang over the side – by about 10 times of this happening I had to get off the balcony and was too scared to go out there again as I thought I might just do it! … Other times when Im driving I can have repeated thoughts of my daughter being sick – I can see her throwing up in my head and everything – she could be at school and perfectly healthy etc My psychiatrist told me that these are all a symptom of OCD he then pointed out that I dont have OCD so Im thinking they can be a bipolar thing he also told me that there is one thing for me to remember and that is that I wont ever act on my thoughts – in other words I wouldnt have climbed the balcony barrier … still felt so real to me that I thought I might do it .. but he says I wouldnt.

When Im high my thoughts dont tend to stick to a particular subject – in fact my mind jumps around so much I have a lot of trouble keeping up with it … HOWEVER if I have a project or a topic on the brain I get really obsessed with it and can spend a whole day working on that topic .. googling etc etc I have obsessed over starting a business that was going to be so big and I wondered why nobody had thought of it before!!!! Problem there is I start shopping to “make that business happen” then of course I see my psych and he plays with my meds and I come down again and realise my thoughts and ideas were stupid and were never going to work.

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