Psychotic behaviour

Mahatma coat

Rightyo

So there I was standin in the queue for the cash register at the servo, got some petrol ansd I picked up 2 1.25L bottles of coke for $5, one in each hand,

and as I'm standin there I kept gettin this urge to swing the two bottles out in front of me and clap them onto the head of the person in front of me in the queue.

didnt know the guy, never met him, didnt even see his face.

took a lot for me to convince myself not to do it.

anyone else get strange thoughts like these fairly regularly?????

Sounds like you were just testing your "common sense" reflexes (if such a thing exists).

You passed as you didn't clatter him!

I sometimes get the urge to do something really stupid (not very often & never follow up on it), but I think it's just your mind clearing out the rubbish!

Random thoughts are the sign of a creative mind. (edit: or madness.... but I dont think so)

Mahatma coat

I'm not talkin about the urge to do stupid things per Se more the urge to do things which you know are, well, EVIL, its not uncommon for me, and thats the problem, say yer workin on a buildin site as an example, yer tippin along the scaffoldin minde yer own business and all of a sudden you see........hang on I'll come up with something.....right.... a pointy piece of steel, and you look at it and you think.

a) that might hurt someone down bellow I better tidy it up and flag that as a potential danger to others.

or

b) COOL, I wonder if I can get it to stick in someones head when I kick it off this 20M drop.


well, which is the more common thought in the majority of the population???

With that example "a" , for certain. Mind you if there was a something like a lunchbox down below, I may have a fleeting thought of scoring a bullseye on it

Mahatma coat

OK see the issue is that A) is the option that comes later in my head, I see it and instantly its as my course of action.

Mahatma coat

Mahatma coat wrote:

OK see the issue is that A) is the option that comes later in my head, I see it and instantly its as my course of action.

The real issue is, do you believe that you would ever "cross the line" (between just thinking about and doing something about it) and act upon these urges, eg. pick up the piece of steel and consider dropping it to injure someone below! but then stop before following through.

Mahatma coat

less recently as I've been noticin meself thinkin like that, but when younger there wouldnt have been a seconds hesitation if I thought something like that would be mildly amusing for me

Mrs_Doyle

this is your inner voice KILL KILL KILL, or at least MAIM a bit

Sometimes, just sometimes, when an old granny is walking, really slowly, in front of me, and there is no room for me to walk around her, I often imagine what it would be life to just push her over, or to maybe just give her a swift kick up the arse.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Some times when i'm talking to my boss, who I get on with, or generally anybody at work, I get the urge to just punch them in the face.... Even when they're being nice to me

Mahatma coat

Mrs_Doyle wrote:

Sometimes, just sometimes, when an old granny is walking, really slowly, in front of me, and there is no room for me to walk around her, I often imagine what it would be life to just push her over, or to maybe just give her a swift kick up the arse.

Dooooooooo eeeeeeeeeeeeT

ssory evil me just tried ta slip outdere

but you do have those same thoughts tho, so at least I'm not alone, which im wonderin is a good thing cos there may be someone standin behind me in the que with 2L bottles

Mrs_Doyle

this is your inner voice KILL KILL KILL, or at least MAIM a bit

Mahatma coat wrote:

Dooooooooo eeeeeeeeeeeeT

ssory evil me just tried ta slip outdere

but you do have those same thoughts tho, so at least I'm not alone, which im wonderin is a good thing cos there may be someone standin behind me in the que with 2L bottles

Once I gave in to my nutter urges. I was walking up Henry St, and the place was jammers. It was pissing raining and there was a gang of Spanish students in front of me.
No matter what way I moved I just couldn't get by them, so I kinda tipped my brolly forward and gave it a good shake.
The rain splashed all over some Spanish girl and ran down her neck, and she started to scream hysterically, I swear to God, you would have thought she had been shot.
However, on the plus side, she did get out of my way and enabled me to go about my business.

God, I really wish we had an evil smiley face right now

Binomate

this is your inner voice KILL KILL KILL, or at least MAIM a bit

Get them every now and again. I visualise myself punching the person in front of me in the back of my head and beating them to a pulp. Then after, I always think how scary it would have been if I had actually done it. I think the urge is less of an urge, and more of a visualisation that seems very realistic to you.

JC 2K3

I get this. Also, sometimes I get the urge to kiss someone if their head gets to close to mine....

Muineach

people who pay for things like the newspaper in a shop by writing a cheque
grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I often think of whether to stab them in the eye with a pen or through the ear,
you see you have to think of the satisfaction vs. messy angle, still 50/50

WindSock

JC 2K3 wrote:

I get this. Also, sometimes I get the urge to kiss someone if their head gets to close to mine....

HAhahaaa that made me crack up laughing.

everytime Im in a cinema or show and a tall hippo headed fecker sits in front of me, I want to decapitate them. Once I realised Alfred Hitchcock harboured the same fantasies, I felt we were a kindred spirit.

Tar.Aldarion

this is your inner voice KILL KILL KILL, or at least MAIM a bit

I get the urge to throw my phone or shopping in the river when I walk by it on the way home. Very strong urge to fling em in.

Muineach

its more fun if its not your phone, get some one who's got a really annoying ring tone, then chuck it

Thrill

I've heard that 'other people' do

Mahatma coat wrote:

less recently as I've been noticin meself thinkin like that, but when younger there wouldnt have been a seconds hesitation if I thought something like that would be mildly amusing for me

Do you mean you've acted on those impulses before?

Have you actually hurt someone because of those thoughts?

_blank_

this is your inner voice KILL KILL KILL, or at least MAIM a bit

Servo?

Haven't heard that in a while ya flamin' mongrel.

Mahatma coat

thrill wrote:

Do you mean you've acted on those impulses before?

Have you actually hurt someone because of those thoughts?[/QUOT

now and again when I was younger; idea enters head, action occurs, person bleeding, people screamin WTF did u do tha for, me - blank vacant expression sayin 'Wha'. Later ramifications of actions explained, ra ra ra so and so could have been killed..., what were you thinkin?

my answer - I wasnt.

so yes my actions have injured people in the past, but I try to be a bit more concious of what I'm doin nowadays

BrokenArrows

possible evil smiley for boards

Stephen P

Phew...I'm not alone!

I sometimes get the urge to karate kick someone in head for no apparent reason. Or shout out loud on the bus for a laugh, just to see people's reaction. It's actually quite amusing when I get a picture in my head of beating someone up

Wertz

Mahatma coat wrote:

a) that might hurt someone down bellow I better tidy it up and flag that as a potential danger to others.

or

b) COOL, I wonder if I can get it to stick in someones head when I kick it off this 20M drop.


well, which is the more common thought in the majority of the population???

Always....don't believe I could or would ever act on the impulses.
There's no harm in thinking about it.

The problem lies with a small number of people who get option B into their head first and act upon it before the social norm (option A) ever enters their mind...



[edit] lol got my As and Bs mixed up. Seems I'm mildly dyslexic...better than being mildly psychotic I spose...

Gaspode

I've heard that 'other people' do

I often have these thoughts. In the main I have not acted on them.......
I especially get the urge to shove someone in the back when I'm on a train platform, just as the train is coming in.

NutJob

this is your inner voice KILL KILL KILL, or at least MAIM a bit

It is normal for me at least.

Unless you actually act on it its not Psychotic behaviour.

hullaballoo

From what I can see, psychotic behaviour is the inability to control exactly these kinds of impulses. It's part of "civilised society". It's actually more natural to let these things out, but it's socially unacceptable to kill someone.

The fact that we've had to control these impulses the whole way through our lives is a recent change (since violent combat in wars became obsolete, especially in Ireland), so we probably haven't evolved past them. Personally, I often get the urge to shout really loud in public or to headbut someone without warning. It gets worse when I'm waiting for something because I'm very very impatient.

John Mason

i am not to fond of water i.e sea and river, before anyone gets smart but everytime i walk over O'Connell bridge, i get this urge to jump up on the bridge and just jump in, i get the same urge walking near the sea. this urge is so strong, it really scares me and i really have to hold myself back :-)

NukeD4

Your not Physcotic!,your just repressed
you should try and give in to these,its great fun(maybe not concussing someone with coke bottles tho),
but shout on the bus,or if someones rude to you..punch them in their face
im trying to give in to these at the moment its not easy,but its so liberating!!

Punch people in their rude faces!!

Sm0ke

yeah i get this too. me and a friend of mine were talking about this not so long ago! its like we get these random impulses. when a bus drives by me cause its full i have to literally stop myself from running after it and trying to put my fist thru the window!!! also i might have bought somthing new and i cud get the urge to just smash the **** out of it or throw it into whatever height i maybe near (into the liffey when in town

event

this is your inner voice KILL KILL KILL, or at least MAIM a bit

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

I get the urge to throw my phone or shopping in the river when I walk by it on the way home. Very strong urge to fling em in.

i get this too

manonthemoon

Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote:

Some times when i'm talking to my boss, who I get on with, or generally anybody at work, I get the urge to just punch them in the face.... Even when they're being nice to me

A good friend of mine years after he started a good job in an office told me he was having trouble when in meetings, he had an almighty urge to shout


FANNY !



.:D

Stephen P

manonthemoon wrote:

A good friend of mine years after he started a good job in an office told me he was having trouble when in meetings, he had an almighty urge to shout


FANNY !



.:D

I'd love to shout that out in my office, the reaction would be priceless.

A lot of impulses I get would be things I couldn't physically do (i.e karate kick someone in the head) I'm not physically fit to do something like that. But I would be physically able to shout something like
FANNY !

Femelade

When i was younger i wanted to take a bite out of people's cheeks to see what they tasted like. One day while walking to work , i was walking over patricks bridge in cork and i had a bag in my hand with my uniform in it, i got the sudden urge to just fcuk it into the lee...i really wanted to, not because i didnt want to go to work, i actually like my job..i just wanted to see what
would happen. Anyway, i didnt do it.

Newaglish

this is your inner voice KILL KILL KILL, or at least MAIM a bit

I know exactly what you mean, I was actually talking about it recently.

For instance, if I see somebody bent down, tying their shoes, I have this urge to either push them over or kick them in the head with the sole of my foot.

I also get this amazing desire to steal sometimes and I really feel I have to control myself to not do it.

I'm a perfectly normal member of society though. Honest!

i am zeus

this is your inner voice KILL KILL KILL, or at least MAIM a bit

this is a form of OCD.I have this type.although i have a much more severe case of what you guys are talking about.

WindSock

i am zeus wrote:

this is a form of OCD.I have this type.although i have a much more severe case of what you guys are talking about.

Would you mind telling more?

i am zeus

this is your inner voice KILL KILL KILL, or at least MAIM a bit

yeah i suppose its alright.. well at my worst stage i thought i was gonna
1)steal things off them
2)stab them
and this was almost everyone i came into contact with
i had alot more inappropriate thoughts than this but i would not feel comfortable talking about them
i will however tell you that people with this sort of OCD usualy have thoughts that they are either
1)gonna steal things
2)gonna hurt people
3)gonna act on a very unusual sexual impulse
and
4) (for people who are religious) have thoughts that they are going to worship satan or omething along those lines... to be honet im not quite sure about that one
hoever THEY NEVER DO

Mahatma coat

Hah kickin people in the arse when they're tying their shoelaces, thats one of those ones that I just cant resist

however you raise an interestin point re the stealin, I could well be described as a habitual petty criminal, my 'moral compass' is far less troubled by things like that, where no other individual is activley injured, I rarely find a need to even justify it to myself.

as for unusual sexual impulses, the only unusual thing would be if I had a sexual impulse

nesf

hullaball&#250 wrote:

From what I can see, psychotic behaviour is the inability to control exactly these kinds of impulses. It's part of "civilised society". It's actually more natural to let these things out, but it's socially unacceptable to kill someone.

No. Psychotic behaviour is far more complicated than that. Have a read up on psychosis and then you might have a better idea. Though, most people who use the word don't have the slightest clue of what the word actually means and what it entails for people who actually do suffer from psychosis. Actually, this entire thread is a perfect example of this.

Mahatma coat

39 Posts before someone points out that I should have said Sociopathic behaviour.

Dunno, Psycho has a better ring to it

nesf

Mahatma coat wrote:

39 Posts before someone points out that I should have said Sociopathic behaviour.

Dunno, Psycho has a better ring to it

Perhaps, but sociopathic behaviour is somewhat different again tbh.

Mahatma coat

See thats why I just pick one word and use it as a catchall, now if you dont mind I have some round holes to be filling with a variety of square triangly and star shaped objects

PeakOutput

i am zeus wrote:

yeah i suppose its alright.. well at my worst stage i thought i was gonna

im convinced im mildly ocd like i always run my tongue along along my teeth and count to 9 in 3's across in three lines and up in 3 lines..........always count stairs.......if im cycling ill count my pedals(right word???) but only one two three one two three always HAVE to have my poker chips stacked perfectly

have MAD random urges during sex(never linked that to ocd before even no im still think nah im just wierd like dat)

i get ridicolously strong urges to point out peoples faults...even people i really like and i know it wud really hurt them i just wana blurt it out like i have to get it off my chest


maybe im just a dickhead

Mahatma coat

PeakOutput wrote:

im convinced im mildly ocd like i always run my tongue along along my teeth and count to 9 in 3's across in three lines and up in 3 lines..........always count stairs.......if im cycling ill count my pedals(right word???) but only one two three one two three always HAVE to have my poker chips stacked perfectly

have MAD random urges during sex(never linked that to ocd before even no im still think nah im just wierd like dat)

i get ridicolously strong urges to point out peoples faults...even people i really like and i know it wud really hurt them i just wana blurt it out like i have to get it off my chest


maybe im just a dickhead

OCD/OCBD would seem to be something that was made up a few years ago to describe this kinda thing, and it soes encompass all the behaviour listed, I'm just massivley relieved that I'm not the only one walkin around on a hairtrigger.

I must keep a note of any strange sexual urges I have cos thats not something I'd noticed, that said I'm inta Doggin and the like so strange is subjective

OOOOOH and pointin out peoples faults, ah come on now even IF I did promise to never physicaly harm another human being, you couldnt take away that emotional dagger aswell, its just so much fun to demean and belittle people till they run crying from the room, leaving you with that warm fuzzy smug selfsatisfied feeling, its refershing and at least I didnt stab them in the eye wit a texterpen.

PeakOutput

Mahatma coat wrote:

OOOOOH and pointin out peoples faults, ah come on now even IF I did promise to never physicaly harm another human being, you couldnt take away that emotional dagger aswell, its just so much fun to demean and belittle people till they run crying from the room, leaving you with that warm fuzzy smug selfsatisfied feeling, its refershing and at least I didnt stab them in the eye wit a texterpen.

ye......i really dont find that fun at all really

Mahatma coat

No, not in the slightest, dont worry I believe you

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANYWAY

you have my interest Piqued (is that the right word?) with this MAD sexual urge thingy,

ELABORATE!!

PeakOutput

Mahatma coat wrote:

No, not in the slightest, dont worry I believe you

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANYWAY

you have my interest Piqued (is that the right word?) with this MAD sexual urge thingy,

ELABORATE!!

nah nt the place people knw me here and its too late to go unregged sry

carry on

Mahatma coat

ah well at least PM me a few hints and tips then