Quote from: Jenne on March 19, 2008, 10:45:58 PMQuote from: Nigel on March 19, 2008, 08:20:49 PM
I was kind of talking about something different.
Well, damn. Sorry.
That's all right. Tired. Had to nap.
I don't know if you were replying to me or to the general conversation in your previous post, but basically I was talking about postpartum OCD-type invasive thoughts, which are a whole different category from either fantasies. or intellectual exercises. When you mentioned musing about killing your husband/children, I recalled my postpartum experience. I just wanted to make clear that I've never had *fantasies* about killing my family. I dunno if you've had any experience with OCD, but there's this thing that can happen; take a bridge, for instance. Suppose that somehow, the clear and vivid mental image of driving off the bridge runs through your mind while you're crossing the bridge. Combined with that image is a feeling of needing to drive off the bridge. Now suppose that it happens every time you cross a bridge, to the point where you avoid crossing bridges because you become afraid that you might actually drive off one. Not because you want to.