Silly thoughts

[ANXIETY26]

For the last few weeks I have been having really stupid thoughts which are starting to get to me a bit. It's starting to make me feel like I've lost the plot!!! Hope I dont come across as weird.

I keep looking at people and thinking that they are just skeletons covered in flesh. I look at people driving past the house and keep thinking things like, how do they know how to drive the car, how do they know where they are going, what they are doing etc..

I have never had thoughts like this before and try and tell myself it must be the side effects of coming of Effexor, but I've been of them now for about 6 months. any advice??

[Meg]

I went through this too- after being really acute when I suddenly woke up to the world again and wondered why people were developing into who they were and what were we all doing here anyway and who said we needed to do xyz


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Meg
www.anxietymanagementltd.com

Your anxiety is the human representation of the pictures that you paint using your many vivid colours of revolving and reoccurring thoughts.
How big is your gallery ?

[seh1980]

I have the same thing. I couldn't sleep last night because I was just lying in bed thinking of strange, horrible things..Distracting yourself works best..the sooner, the better..:D

"If life were simple, word would have got around"

[ANXIETY26]

Thanks for the replies. I feel a whole lot better now. Thanks

[neonpink_smurf]

I posted a message about strange thoughts recently because it really freaked me out and i had the skeleton thing along witha realisation everyone was going to die (but i was ashamed of the skeleton image as i thought that was freaky), this was last thurs, it was horrible and it was while walking down the street and i kept getting scared it was going to happen on the same street so i faced my fear and walked down the street a couple of days ago and if i thought about it i accepted it and talked my mind out of what i was thinking and i've been feeling a lot better since..
and yep i have those thoughts about how do people know how to do things and i get a bit obsessed over little things like gravity or the world, but i just say to myself i'm having these thoughts because the world and people are so complex and amazing that i can't help think about how everything works

[Kristi Pipkin]

Hi

I suffer from this too and it can be very frightening when it happens, but like everyone has said, distraction is the name of the game! As soon as you feel yourself being drawn into these thoughts, try and think of something else like your shopping list or what you might do at the weekend.

I know at first this might seem easier said that done, but it becomes easier the more you do it and in time you won't be so 'freaked' by your thoughts because you realise that's all then are:D