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I Thought My Intrusive Thoughts Meant I Wanted To Hurt People

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Out of all the anxiety disorder symptoms I’ve experienced, intrusive thoughts are definitely the worst. There are many ailments faced by people living with mental illnesses, but this is one I can safely compare to feeling like the equivalent of hell.

Part of what made it even worse than it already was, though, was that I didn’t even know it was a mental health issue. I have never been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), an illness that commonly comes with intrusive thoughts, but I have experienced intrusive thoughts themselves (and, according to my doctor, exhibited “obsessive-compulsive traits”).

As someone with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), my thoughts already caused me a lot of anxiety; these intrusive thoughts were

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