To have realised this is probably part of OCD rather than daft sense of humour?

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I have OCD with intrusive thoughts. Often awful, violent and graphic thoughts.

Anyway I was sat watching PMQs today and suddenly burst out laughing … Starmer was talking and an image went through my head of Badenoch standing up and farting into the mic - followed by the outrage of everyone in the room. A few minutes later I had the image of reeves suddenly squashing an egg onto Starmers arm.

I’ve always had these sudden ridiculous thoughts and often burst out laughing randomly when they appear - I just thought 💭 had a daft sense of humour but apparantly it’s not normal to suddenly think up bizarre scenarios like this - so I’m thinking … are they simply “harmless” intrusive thoughts?? Is it part of OCD?

It happens in real life too - I’ll be talking to someone and suddenly visualise doing something ridiculous which makes me laugh - mid conversation. I also have the horrible thoughts mid convo too.

Anyone had any experience of this?? AIBU to think it’s probably another version of intrusive thoughts?

I guess it depends on what happens if you try to ignore the thoughts ? And whether you have a compulsion - mental or physical ?

Interesting! I have ocd as well and have awful thoughts, convince myself of horrific scenarios and yet i too sometimes think of random funny scenarios that amuse me. Ive never thought it could be ocd related until now!

Yes, they sound like intrusive thoughts, but that doesn't mean they are "part of OCD", even in a person who has the condition.

Pretty much everyone has intrusive thoughts and images pop into their head. They can be of anything. They aren't intrusive because they are distressing, they are intrusive because they are intrusive(!). A large part of OCD is what a person does in response to those thoughts, in terms of attaching meaning to them, then performing compulsions to try and neutralise/eradicate/stave off/whatever. People who just dismiss their intrusive thoughts, even those of the most awful things, as meaningless do not have OCD. Others who develop rituals to deal with theirs do have OCD (assuming other diagnostic criteria are met) even if they themselves don't find the intrusions distressing or violent or horrible. A lot of my compulsions are in response to an intrusion "telling" me some action I took was simply "not right". I don't think anything bad will happen, but I'll have to perform a neutralising ritual and repeat the action until it does feel right. I also have all kinds of things pop into my head throughout every day which come and go with no consequence. These are intrusions but nothing to do with my OCD.

Yes I suppose it could be, I also have OCD with awful intrusive thoughts and I do sometimes get these random funny scenarios that come in to my head, I suppose they're not harmful though and I don't have to do any sort of ritual to make sure they don't come true so maybe not actually part of OCD

That doesn't sound related to OCD. OCD intrusive thoughts are repetitive and distressing and usually require some sort of immediate ritual to block them out or neutralise them. Hence obsessive compulsive.

It’s a bit weird. People do get ranmdon thoughts of scenarios in their head all the time, funny things etc but they don’t actually burst out laughing. That’s the weird part. If you’re actually bursting out in loud fits of laughter due to the scenario you’ve made up in your head, then that has to have something to do with what’s going on in your mind.

But… everyone is weird! Everyone does something off that everyone else finds weird, so as long as it’s not hurting anyone then who cares?

Interesting! I don’t need to perform any kind of ritual for the funny ones unless you count trying to make myself think of sad thoughts to stop myself laughing.

The intrusive thoughts require a ritual afterwards to stop them from coming true - even though logically I know they won’t - I feel like I have to “just incase” because if I don’t - and they do come true - it’s because I didn’t do the ritual. Drives me insane because I know it’s bullshit but I can’t not do it “just incase”

I have OCD and I get something a bit like this, like during a funeral for example I will keep getting thoughts that make me want to laugh out loud. The thoughts are unwanted but not distressing in themselves, the distress comes from the fact that they are completely inappropriate in the circumstances. I’m ashamed to be having such ridiculous thoughts on a solemn occasion and very afraid I am going to laugh out loud. A number of times at school I had to go out of the class because I couldn’t stop laughing. I used to have to go and splash cold water on my face and even once I’d stopped I’d be terrified that I would start again. I have no control over it when it happens. I used to dread having to go to the church because that was the worst place for it.
I actually think you could be on to something. I think it could easily be connected to the OCD.

I don’t have OCD but I have loads of random disaster scenarios running in my mind often. At least 5-10 an day. Any time I walk along a quiet road side, I imagine a car ploughing into me or a loved one. I can be sitting having morning coffee and will suddenly be imagining my DC trapped in a fire I can’t save them from. Or when I’m flying I am living through some hostage drama. When I lie in bed, with a foot stuck over the edge I imagine someone coming and slicing through it with a machete. It sounds horrific, but I’m not truly distressed by these imaginings- I don’t get in a panic. I am so used to them- it’s like a part of me is just rehearsing something, vigilantly…. It feels almost like a way of feeling equipped/ready/ not panicking…. And also protecting me from making mistakes. (Eg: Every time I go out of the front door, leaving family inside, I make sure it’s locked because I imagine a maniac breaking in and attacking them)
I sound far more tortured than I feel.

your funny ones sound great though!