Are you on meds?

Do you have a good therapist you could relate this to?

I did three things to help with my intrusive thoughts.

1 Got on medication, it took the edge off.
2. Talked to my therapist, we worked on techniques to distract myself
from the thoughts, like watching T.V. or listening to music and then
we worked on how to face the thought and take away their power.
3. I bought a book, DBT for Bipolar. I am really good with self help
books and a lot of the activities in there helped me get past the
bad thoughts

I hope this is helpful and good luck.

Gee. I don't know if you're going to get any more helpful advice than the last time you asked, about a week ago, but I hope that you do.

I suggest that you take some of that advice and try it, even if you've tried it in the past without any success.

Perhaps a different kind of therapy than you had before will work better for you.

Maybe therapy would help you drop the anger that you say you still feel about your friend who stopped you from dying when you tried to commit suicide. I don't know how much that would help, but carrying anger around for a long time isn't good for you.
Although you may be disappointed that your weren't successful in your suicide attempt, I don't really see what other choice your friend had but to try to save you.

Ten years is so long to live in torment. Especially when you can't even escape from it in your sleep.

I hope you find some way to get out of this deeply ingrained thought process.

Good luck!!! (((((Hugs)))))

I am on meds and coming off some of them and the same thing happened to me. I too walks and listened to different music It seemed to help some. Hang in there.

I struggle with this a lot too when I'm where I'm at now. I've found that thought modification, tv, reading, exercising and meds are just not enough to distract me. The only things I've found to really distract me are work and/or listening to loud music. Many times I do both at the same time. I don't know why, but that's enough to keep the thoughts at bay whereas nothing else can.

Im in agreement with all of the above juz... some meds can cause vivid dreams/nightmares.. but it 'sounds' to me like you need a med tweak...x

Thanx for all the replies....i am going on time-out for four days a (week tomorrow)...can't get in before that cos its too busy....so, i am looking forward to going in a weeks time....also I am going bak on prozac tomorrow....

I went off the meds for three months. Had the same problem. Started them up again and doing WAY better. Sleeping finally too. Hope the Prozac helps.

I also suffer from this problem. I have thoughts of things that happen just keep churning inside my head until I feel like I am going to explode. I think distraction plays a big role in helping to keep those thoughts at bay and also by accepting those thoughts and making room for them without judging them but just noticing they are there makes a difference.

This is one of my main problems. wheither on meds or not I suffer from it. just less when I have meds. But medication is the key to keeping it controlled to a tolerable point.