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Hillbilly Housewife wrote: My brain is doing funny things.... I keep doing things I don't mean to do, but I know I'm doing it, and I can't stop it while I'm doing it, until after I've done it.

Like earlier, I wantetd to put the sugar container lid back on the sugar container... but instead, I put it on my coffee cup. It fell in, and made a big overflow mess. But I knew I was putting it in my coffee cup, even though I didn't want to, I still had to do it, and I couldn't stop it.

I also went to put the peanut butter in the cupboard... but found myself opening the fridge instead. I put the peanut butter in there. I closed the door. I knew what I was doing ...and I couldn't change it. I had to open the fridge door again, and then I put the peanut butter back in the cupboard where it belongs.

I put a dirty kleenex in the microwave earlier, rather than in the garbage.

It's really scary... because I keep thinking about those parents who do horrible things to their children, and then afterwards say that it's like they were watching themselves do it, they had no control over their actions...

I've been taking it pretty relaxed today, because of thids... we pretty much only watched movies all day today, because I'm a little freaked about it. unsure.gif

MyBrownEyedBoy replied: I've never told a soul about this, but when Logan was littler, I used to have the oddest compulsion to bite his fingers. I never did it, but I really had the urge. God, it still happens sometimes. I hate it. Please don't anyone take this as I don't love and care for my son. I never followed through, but the compulsion was very strong.

holley79 replied: I guess I am going to totally tell on myself here with this one.

Since I was about 18, while riding in a car, I always wanted to just open the door while going down the road. Like "What would it be like if I feel from the vehicle right now?" It is a very weird sensation and it makes me kind of dizzy. I told my mom about it and she said that sometimes our minds do weird stuff to us.

CantWait replied: Rocky I have the compulsion to run my car into a light pole nearly everytime I get in, so I don't know what it is, but I've heard of it.

kit_kats_mom replied: I'd talk to my Dr. about it. sounds like some sort of OCD.

Your brain is capable of some really crazy stuff. I remember holding Lauren and opening the oven to check a pizza and I was so tempted to put her in the oven. My thoughts were "what would happen if..." luckily, I was able to not act on it but even just knowing I was even capable of thinking something like that that drove me crazy.

JadensMama05 replied: Good to see I'm not the only one with wierd impulses...

Cece00 replied: I have the compulsion to check & make sure ALL 4 of my kids are in the car when I am ready to drive off. I have this crazy fear I will hit one of them with my car...or even worse, leave the baby seat by the car & hit it with my car. The thought makes me panicky so then I check over and over for all 4 kids.

Hillbilly Housewife replied: Glad to see I'm not alone.

Kelly, I used to get that urge too... Except mine was to bite their thighs. unsure.gif laugh.gif

I also had a weird compulsion to want to lick their face clean after they ate, as a baby. I never did... but it was tooo wierd. I guess the animal instinct comes out... lol

It was just really weird.

Cary - I never ever ever open the oven when I'm hodling the babies, just for that reason. I can completely understand about that girl that mistook the baby for the turkey... as sad as that sounds... if I get a little freaked about it, I can just imagine if I was high, as well.

I STILL get freaked out when I'm in the upstairs hallway. I pretty much have to slide my shoulder against the wall when I go to the kids room... since I have a banister, and I've often wondered "what would happen if I dropped the baby over the banister by accident".

I love my kids and would never hurt them.... but it's scary what goes through our minds sometimes.

amynicole21 replied: There's medication for this... it's a compulsion issue. I used to imagine myself licking the toilet in a public bathroom... this from a total and complete germaphobe. blink.gif

sparkys2boys replied: Wow you guys, some of that is pretty scarey. Rocky have you always had this stuff happen to you? I think that if the urge was that bad sometimes that I would talk to a doctor on it, just to be safe. As much as we all know that you guys love your kids it may be the safest thing to do.. good luck.. hope it passes hug.gif

Hillbilly Housewife replied:
No, not really!!! I mean, I've had little urges here and there, like licking their face clean or biting their thigh... but nothing actually harmful, really.

It worried me yesterday, because it wasn't just urges... and even though putting a sugar container's lid in my cup of coffee is hardly dangerous, I ACTED on them. Which is completely abnormal. It's scary to think about talking to my doctor about it - what if it's a totally serious condition and then I have my kids taken away from me?! unsure.gif

CantWait replied:
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mummy2girls replied: i have had thoughts of this stuff too. mine was i would stand at the top of the stairs( above the banister) and think i wonder what would happen if i dropped my child over? or if im in a balcony i wonder if jenna could survive a jump off of it.. its odd.

sparkys2boys replied:
Ya but Rocky if it is happening more now.. it is time to speak to someone on it. I am sure that if it is a problem there is meds or something that can be done. I don't think that anyone would take your kids away from you unless you actually acted on the urges which you have said that you have not. I am thinking that help before it gets worse would be the route to go with this, thus avoiding any reason to think about the kids being taken. I have not myself had urges like this so I don't understand it that well but hope you get past it.. hug.gif

amymom replied: Rocky, I had similar type conversations in my head ~~~ is what I called them. This happened to me the first time I had an episode of depression. I was at the time on birth control pills. When I stopped the pills the depression and thoughts went away. Years later a psychologist explained to me that that was a symptom. I took that to mean a depression symptom. I would definetely talk to the doctor.

Good Luck.

mom2my2cuties replied:
Well number one - you haven't ever harmed your child with these urges, so there is no grounds for them to take your child. Number two - If you are to see a doctor, and tell them about this, you are PREVENTING a problem before it starts, instead of waiting until some thing has happened. And you wont be faulted for that - it is actually in your favor.


I am not saying you would hurt your children, I have rarely met someone more loving and caring towards children as you are. And I say that because it takes a special kind of person to care for someone else's children, and put up with the things that you have had to out of your day care children.

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All that being said, I think some of these urges are just normal "brain" things. Our brains are freaky, scary places...And our thoughts are believed to come in random about some things, so things you see on TV, hear on the Radio, see in Movies, or read about, or hear people talking of, it all sticks in there sometimes and I believe the theory is that these "urges" or "Thoughts" are just your brains rambling and sorting of all this information when you are in similar situations. And man that made much more sense in my head that it did when I read it back.


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