thoughts of hurting people

I have never had OCD, although i don't think so, I would also like to say I am over the anorexia I suffered for years, but I don't think that part of your brain ever leaves you, and recently it has become more dominant again in my life. I have started to have thoughts about wanting hurt people and myself. Its increasing every day now and started a couple of years ago but the thoughts are beginning to take over my life, its nearly all the time. I sometimes have to remove myself from being near to people because I'm scared the impulse may take over me to do something. It could be anyone, myself included. I'm not a bad person but I'm beginning to feel as though I am. I feel like I'm silently going mad. i can't tell anyone I know as I don't no how they would react.

Hello,You need to know that you are a very special person to God,He knows your every stuggle and love you so very much.I hope that you take heart what I am trying to say to you. You have an enemy that wants to destroy you because he hates you. I hope that you respond so that I can assist you on getting out of this emotional bondage that you are in.

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My Ex boyfriend has thoughts of inflicting pain on others he has had these thoughts for as long as i have known him. He has never reacted on these impulses and is a great person. his thoughts i think scare him he voids large groups and generally hates people, he plans on getting further away from people I think in fear of reacting to his thoughts. he went to a doctor once because i asked him and they did really nothing for him. I think it is getting worse and I don't know how to help him through this. I know he has had thoughts of hurting me as well but i believe he would never react on these thoughts but i don't want him to one day do something that he will regret. He thinks if he moves far away from people in general he will get over these angry thoughts, but i don't believe avoiding the problem is a solution. he has a large back round of physophrenia could that be the cause. please any feed back would be great!

I'm 22 y.o and I am going through the exact same thing. I've had depression for many years and have been on anti-depressants since I was 15y.o. I also recently found out that I have a sleeping disorder called 'narcolepsy', and one of the symptoms is vivid, violent dreams, which is making my problem 100 times worse. 
I have been told by counsellor's and doctors, that because you worry about these kinds of things, it's a sign that nothing like this is going to happen.
Hope this has helped, and just remember, there's always someone there to help =) 

Hello all listen, i am 17 years old and was in the psychiatric ward of a hospital for a month. I to suffer from anxiety, ocd, and depression currently i am on Zoloft and seroquel. Understand that going to the hospital should not be such a big worry, i told my dad i was having thoughts of strangling my brother and that i was worried and wanted to go to the doctor, and so i admitted myself to the hospital. The thoughts started to become generalized where it felt like i wanted to strangle anyone, there were thoughts and impulses, i got this tingling sensation in my hands that made me worry more that i wanted to do this and that i was a psychopath or serial killer, those worries i still have but i dont have the strangling thought anymore. My thoughts have gone from strangling to cutting then stabbing, hitting, suffocating and so on, this is a very unknown illness than many suffer from in the dark for a long time, i have had thoughts for three years although they started off as thoughts that i was gay, and me performing very taboo and sexually explicit acts. I have had a lot of trauma in my life, I mean probably no more than a lot of people, but i am a sensitive person and take it differently. You must think to yourself thoughts are just thoughts, also do not fear if you think you like these thoughts i have had the same doubts, Do i like these thoughts? Is this really me? Am I some kind of Psycho or serial killer? Will i lose control and act on them. Understand this as well it is extremely extremely rar that someone suffering from these thoughts act on them it is something like 95% of people dont act on them, and that is mostly because they get help and figure out that it is not me. Reaching out for help does not make you any less of a person, and i felt ashamed and guilty because of these thought as well i felt like a monster, i will not lie to you i still have thoughts come and go but it is when you stop giving them attention that it becomes easier to deal with, and i might sound hard now but getting help will really be a boost and make you feel a lot better. As well i would like to mention that i have a lot of pent of anger because i have always been passive and not able to speak up for myself, but now i am teaching myself to which helps. Things i have found that help me are : A psychiatrist, proper medication, yoga, deep breathing, excersising, CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), and even journaling and in honestly im probably the last person you would expect to have a journal if you met me, but i try to do it on the daily because you can get all of your feelings and thoughts on paper and just get them out when you feel like you have nobody to talk to. Also i know CBT is usually alot of money but there are other ways of doing it yourself (although i recommend finding a licesenced psychologist that is trained in CBT), "Mind Over Mood" is a book i have been using that is an amazing help, as well  ***this post is edited by moderator *** *** web addresses not allowed*** I dont mean to ramble on but i am a survivor in a sense i have been through hell with this illness and still im trying to get out of the hole but it does get better, even now i have been out of the hospital for a couple of months, and my father decided he wants a divorce from my mom... well great timing huh? but even though i might be pissed off at my dad im ok and pushing through. Also i would like to mention after i left the hospital the first time i had to go back in after a couple of days and was in for another week, where for 3 days i sat in a locked room in a crisis ward waiting for a room to open up in the child psychiatric ward, and i was tranfered from there to another place for a couple of days and then back to the original place in the span of a week. Sorry for rambling and i dont know if anyone has read this far but please dont give up i was close to giving up but i pushed through and i am starting to move on with my life! XD  Go at your own pace and learn to live and let live, forgive and forget, there will always be stress but there is always a different way of looking at things, and not everything is Black or White, there are grey areas/ TO THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE READ THIS FAR I APPLAUD YOU BECAUSE I KNOW I DID RAMBLE A LOT BUT I HOPE THIS HELPED AND IT IS ALWAYS GOOD TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE NOT ALONE, FEEL FREE TO MESSAGE ME AND I COULD ADD YOU ON FACEBOOK! OR EVEN JUST EMAIL

Hey, listen schizoprenia could definitly be a cause of it, i would recommend he admits himself to the nearest hospital right away because he will need to be diagnosed and put on medication. I can understand his fears because i have suffered from obsessive violent thoughts and impluses that actually turn out to be imaginary, but i suffer from anxiety, depression and OCD. The best answer for you boyfriend would to get himself assessed and diagnosed so he can be helped immediatley, and the fact that he is afraid of these thoughts and impulses shows he will not act on them



-good luck and all my best

Tobe, my friend i have been diagnosed with the same as well as mild to severe depression, understand that with OCD these obsessive thoughts morph, for three years i have sexually explicit thoughts of performing very disturbing act as well as thoughts that i was gay, and i lived with these thoughts because i began to think maybe i am just gay and thats why im thinking like this and then just recently as the summer that just past, i been to have violent thoughts and it caused me to admit myself to the hospital. So dont worry you are not alone!

same here , i have ocd but i am not checking if the door is locked or washing hands all the time but i have evil thoughts (like hurting or killing someone.) about people i really love with my heart :) also i am a christian but still i can't control these thoughts. sometimes i end up crying and hoping that i would not do those bad things in real life that were in my thoughts. any ideas what to do , to get rid of these thoughts ? :'(

I just turned 19, i too am the person who is known to love people so much and to have a lot of care. But after having many anxiety attacks i started to get the notion that i was going to hurt the people i hold dearest. and it bugs me often, it feels like im doomed. it sucks so much because it is the opposite of who i am.

i would get help if i were you, when you're constantly thinking about hurting others eventually you will hurt others and yourself. i have been living with this for a while now , we'll 20 years now and theres been times where i have to check myself into the mental clinic, to keep me from harming others. i have to admit, i enjoyed it plenty of times, especially when hurting pepople that i consider trash, which alot of people to me fall in that catergory. whos knows what's next. goodluck.

It's great to find people who feel like this too.  I'm 17 I used to have anxiety and i've had OCD since i've been 10 all i can ever think about is hurting people, there is a constant anger.  I'm popular and outgoing but everyone thinks i'm always happy and chilled out but really i always just want to hurt people and make people feel small.  I can change my mood so easily I can be completely calm and then want to kill everybody but i do it on purpose, I have complete control over my mood.  I also have no feelings for anyone or anything, I know that i would never intentionally hurt anyone but it feels so good to think about it.

Hi, i am only 18 yrs old and i have been having disturbing thoughts for over 5 years now. They are so strong and i dont know what i have or if i have anything but i do know that my thoughts, dreams their so intresting just makes me want to go and follow but i try not to. i always thought i was crazy but mayb crazy isnt such a bad thing. lol i just wanted to post something too. oh and not everyone can get help. Theres no help for me trust me im way past the need for help lol.

actually shouldnt he be view wether he is a danger to public or themsefes before sectioned? and medication is the persons choice not a legal thing to be forced upon them.

I have very slight tendencies that wold match up with OCD.  I don't think I have it, bur I definitely think about hurting people.  And it's awesome.  It's so vivid and beautiful.  I don't see what you guys are worried about.  Just relax and enjoy the thoughts.  You can choose to be horrified, or you can choose to relive them with pleasure.

I Am 21 years old, my name is Christa King and I too have suffered a great deal from having thoughts like this. Terrible flashes of grabbing the closest object to you and hurting the person next to you or doing very bad things to ppl you love and do not deserve it. I have hope for all of you because I DON'T SUFFER FROM THAT ANYMORE! Yay you can get rid of it I did. It has been almost 5 years now and not a single thought like that has come to mind. I like to think of the disorder as more of like a habit you pick up like biting your nails or constantly moving things around to make them look perfect because nothing feels right. Well heres the key MAKE YOURSELF COMFORTABLE WITH THE IMPERFECTIONS OF LIFE AND YOUR SURROUNDINGS. If you have OCD and have to turn a bottle front label straight. instead anything you do to correct something that bugs you or feel like you have to to fix it or make it perfect undo it, unfix it and let it bug you. Your trying to teach your mind that its fine the way it is. You'll feel more comfortable in a few weeks and youll be able to do it because YOUR THE ONE undoing what you did. So thats pretty much my wisdom on this topic. Hope it helps It! :)