As for me:
Due to Christmas rapidly approaching my place earns increasing amounts of money.
It would be so easy to just snag a whole day of store income and forever vanish into another country.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Definitely don’t rob the store Mandy. Disappearing is much harder than it seems before you try it. It is getting hard to find and claim a birth certificate of someone plausible and reinvent yourself.

    I’m one step away from concluding that if I can’t survive and am facing homelessness with my physical disability, I should consider that what it is, an act of war.

    • Mandy@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      17 days ago

      Dont worry, i wont
      But as intrusive thoughts sometime do? getting kinda loud ya know

      Edit: thank you for the consolation

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    17 days ago

    None. Intrusive thoughts are unwanted images/ideas that may be hard to clear from the mind. They are distressing and possibly come with a fear of “what if I did that”, not something you’d ever want to do.

    • Last@reddthat.comEnglish
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      17 days ago

      Exactly this. They never guide or try to cause anything, it’s just distressing. The way OP frames it makes it sound like the devil or something is talking to you. It’s more like “hey, do you remember that super embarrassing thing you said/did? Well lets play it on repeat for the next however many minutes”. It’s not something you’d ever want to do.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Trigger Warning: Attempts of ending my own life

    spoiler

    Going to the nearest bridge and just jump off.

    And um…

    when I was a kid…

    So I saw a knife in my kitchen when I was a kid (like maybe 12 or 13), I just thought “what if I sliced my throat” I held the knife like maybe 5 inches from my throat, then survival instincts kicked in and I put it back, then I got scared of dying for a while. Never told anyone. I wasn’t even diagnosed with depression back then, so probably not even being suicidal, just a weird thought that popped in my head.

    My parents was being shitty at the time, so idk if that was really suicial thoughts or intrusive thoughts.

    • bstix@feddit.dk
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      17 days ago

      It’s called “L’appel du vide” or “call of the void” and quite normal.

      It’s an old instinct to think through the consequences of dangerous things instead of actually doing them.

    • Last@reddthat.comEnglish
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      17 days ago

      I don’t think those are intrusive thoughts, at least that’s not what mine are like.

    • SirSamuel@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      23 years ago I met a guy at work that was really cool. We became friends of a sort, in the way that a shy introvert considers friends. Every once in a while he’d invite me to hang out with his friends, which was always a good time. I’m not sure if he considered me a friend. I always felt like an outsider in those groups. But he was kind to me, and I love him. Eventually we both moved away from that area. I’m not good at keeping in touch, especially over long distances. For instance, my brother lives a couple of states away, I love him to death, and we talk maybe once a year.

      So I’d call my friend every once in a while, and we’d catch up.

      Eighteen years ago I lost my friend to depression. The details aren’t important. How he did it. Who found him. The 3 am phone call. But it was 18 years ago. It still hurts. You think you’ll always have someone, that they’re just a phone call away. That you’ll get to hear their weird take on that thing we’d always argue about. That you’ll get to hear his latest poem…

      And you’ll always wonder if you could’ve done something to help them stay.

      People don’t realize that they bring light to the world. That they’ll be missed. That there will be a hole in the world where they were. That they are loved more deeply and profoundly than they can know. The memory of them is a poor substitute for their presence.

      Don’t go too soon. You will be missed.

      • TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml
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        16 days ago

        Those who seem to have it so together often don’t. Hope you don’t blame yourself in any way and that you’re managing it the best you can.

      • rhadamanth_nemes@lemmy.world
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        16 days ago

        Is it fair to latch the world onto people thinking like this? To chain them to suffering for years and years because any random person they interact with might be sad later?

        It sucks that you feel pain from losing a friend, but does that pain outweigh the pain they were trying to escape from?

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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      15 days ago

      People’s intrusive thoughts can vary greatly from things like suicidal ideation, thoughts of swerving into oncoming traffic, inappropriate sexual stuff, but can also include theft etc. Not everyone is disturbed by them to the point of fixating on them either. Some people know how to let them flow in and back out without giving them power

  • mke_geek@lemm.ee
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    17 days ago

    Sometimes people have stupid thoughts because they don’t think about the consequences of their actions.

  • TechnoCat@lemm.ee
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    17 days ago

    Buy every delicious treat you see in the store. Fill the cart with donuts and pie.

    • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      17 days ago

      That, or joining some hardcore cult because the weight of responsibility is tiring and it’s so easy to delegate your will to some bullshit explanashition of how everything is and what everyone should be doing. Many flies can’t lie how eating shit is calming.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      17 days ago

      I’ve heard the trick is never looking back. The moment you get back in touch with your old life they can find you.

      Take note OP. If you’re gonna do an exit scam you get everything in cash (somehow) and shed old technology and connections like a snake skin.

  • Elaine@lemm.ee
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    17 days ago

    Most recently it was what if I drop my favorite glass on the tile floor. It seemed almost like I had already done it in a dream.

    • TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml
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      16 days ago

      As a person who collects pint glasses that have a cool design, please dont do this. It will break (Probably.) and you will be gutted.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    17 days ago

    All the ones that are bad ideas. My impulse filter is thin and the harmless but weird ones just happen.

    Anyway, thanks for being my only friends, Lemmy.

  • Mister Neon@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Crack all the glow sticks.

    I bought a bunch of equipment for a bugout bag. I bought a dozen glow sticks. I now have eleven glow sticks.