If you have or on ADs and have intrusive thoughts, what did you find helped?
I go through cycles of intense anxiety and have done for years. Long before it became common vernacular, I would get these really strong thoughts about animal abuse and I couldn’t stop them popping into my head. It was almost like a form of self-harm because I would be physically squirming in discomfort.
At the moment I keep thinking about a case where a mother killed her children. I shouldn’t have read it because I know I cannot handle it but I read a detail that I wish I hadn’t, and now I can just see one of the children in my mind’s eye. Just over and over. I work from home, which I think exacerbates it because I really get in my head about stuff. I just want to cry all the time about it.
I know I am struggling but I have only ever been on Prozac periodically - I come on and off it and have done for years. Is there something else that people have found helps?