Do you ever get the 'Imp of the perverse'?

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It's where you suddenly get the urge to do something bad, but would never actually dream of doing it. For example, driving down a busy road and suddenly getting the urge to swerve across into oncoming traffic. Or getting the urge to push someone down the stairs, or mow people down at a crossing etc.

@BarkandCheese I'm sorry but that one is hilarious

Can I just add to mine I'm not suicidal at all I don't want to die I just get petrified by them incase they come true but reading these reassured me they won't ever come true they are just thoughts. Another of mine is scissors if I see scirssors I imagine stabbing someone with them. And my partners hair trimmers I always imagine shaving my head WTF

To be really boring but apparently it's a safety thing, it's our mind jolting is to remind us of the danger.

So for example my one is to tell my clients that their babies are wankers. I imagine it right in the middle of the consultation to look into the oram and then turn deadpan and say 'you're baby is a wanker'.

Apparently it's my brains way of reminding me to mind my language around the babies.

Furry I hope to god you’re right. My job is HR

Oh thank god I thought it was just me!
Every single time I cross water-walking over a bridge I get the urge to throw whatever is in my hand overboard
Once I wasn’t carrying anything so had the urge to sling my bloke over
The feeling stops once I’m back on ‘dry land’
The relief is huge that it’s not just me

I have the urge to burn my neighbour's tree down, it's a wonderful old tree but blocks out the sun in 3 different gardens throughout the day.

I always used to want to steal all the parcels out of the back of the Royal Mail van and go and open them all somewhere secret, just rip through other people’s parcels.

I thought this was just me. I love this phrase!

When I get off my train home from work, I have to walk down a very steep, long flight of stairs from the platform to the street below. Every single time I get the urge to push someone over and watch them go tumbling down like a slinky.

My DD has swimming lessons at a pool that has a big red panic button on the side. So, so tempting.

L'appel du vide is similar. The urge to throw yourself off a cliff or whatever.

It has a name! I always get the urge to smack cake boxes out of people's hands and jump on the contents. Or shove an ice cream into someone's face. I occasionally get the urge to smack my ex-boss' face off the desk but that's far too violent.

Yelling FUCK OFF in meetings? Surely that's a normal human response when ANYBODY dares to say one word about how you should be adopting A Growth Mindset?

Joe Lycetts one: "kick that toddler!" 😂

I have had the occasional urge to push people down stairs and escalators since I was a child to watch the effect. Obviously I have never done it but I also realise that one tiny little push is possibly enough to have me sectioned and labelled for life. Just one push between me and insanity! 😁

I have the urge to damage people’s car paint jobs. No idea why.

And to turn round in meetings and say “fuck it” and just walk out.

Thank god you posted this, I thought I was going mad. I get thoughts like 'what would happen if I just started driving on the other side of the road? Would I crash into someone? Would everyone swerve out of my way?' It's madness, I've 3DC, hold a professional job, have far too much to think about and I have stupid thoughts like this??

Ha ha I totally get this. I get the intrusive thoughts from anxiety like a pp which are horrible, but getting better. But the devilish dark side ones are crazy! We live near a stream and I often feel the impulse to Chuck my phone in. Press in case of emergency buttons are tempting. My worst one is the temptation to kick someone’s stick out from under them as they are walking! I have never and would never - I’m a nurse!

Considering how normal it is my ex psychologist didn't get the memo. I told them I had intrusive thoughts of pushing a random off a cliff.
Wasn't allowed to go on my school trip walking up Tor's

Some other ones include...

Ripping out and pressing the fire extinguisher
Chucking someone's laptop out a window
Throw a plate against a wall

Some others are more disturbing / intrusive like pushing my face into the saucepan / stabbing myself repeatedly etc.
But I do have anxiety. I'm medicated for depression but have only ever been suicidal 2 times in 17 years of depression. Normally I have a lot of self preservation.

Triglesoffy, that did make me laugh. Imagine the embarrassment!

Pissing myself reading these

I’ve had horrible intrusive thoughts about hurting my pets before

Sorry some of these

Yes!
In meetings often
Recently during a play which was awful I really really wanted to stand up and shout something
During my own mum’s funeral service I had strong urge (off my head a bit with shock and grief) but wasn’t sure what it was I would have done. Glad I didn’t whatever it would have been. Possibly during religious bit although I really liked the vicar just not what he was saying. Although thinking about it maybe I missed one of the few times you can get away with it

Wow! I thought it was just me! I spent weeks of therapy sessions talking about this and my therapist decided I had OCD - thoughts variety.

This thread has been a huge relief! Sometimes when I am cooking/ chopping things with a knife a quick thought comes into my head to stab my children. Then I am almost as quickly horrified with myself - they made me feel horrendous I am on Prozac for anxiety and other intrusive thoughts so I put it down to that.

But the idea of being a safety reminder thing is very reassuring. As in - knives could hurt your children so be careful - makes sense and is more reassuring. Thank god for this thread. I’ve never told anyone about these thoughts, not even my husband. I was just too ashamed.