Dave Tupper
07-30-2013, 05:08 PM
Hi all
I suffer from a generalized anxiety disorder and was diagnosed many years ago. For the past 6 months I have been experiencing random unconnected images that just pop into my head out of no where. They frighten me and get my anxiety going. I am scared that it is a greater problem and that something is wrong with my brain, like I have the onset of Alzheimer or Parkinsons, or something along those lines. It really frightens me because they come out of no where.
For instance I will just be sitting at my computer at work typing away and I will get an image of the pizza guy coming to my house or some girl I haven't seen in 10 years and she had little meaning to me then and now. I was doing my taxes and I got an image of another lady I used to know dancing through a field. I also haven't seen her in years and she has nothing to do with a field.
Also when I have been trying to sleep it seems as soon as I lay down and close my eyes I get images right away. Such as last night The following images came into my head pretty quickly and left: a coconut cut in half, 2 paint brushes, a C-shaped box, German, a kid I havent seen in 15 years, twigs, Velcro, Daffy duck, some random old guy, freeze pops, and a red dodge car. I eat freeze pops but everything else seems random. This doesn't happen every night either.
Also, some nights I have been experiencing dreams while still awake it seems. I will close my eyes and think of writing stuff down and I will visualize it, then I see my cat jump up and want to push her away but the whole cat part seems like a dream. Or another example was it was snowing and I was awake but dreamed I had to go shovel my garage out, but I dont have a garage. I open my eyes and it scares me almost like they are delusions.
I am hoping it will pass and it is stress and anxiety related. But it really scares me and ruins my day. No one can seem to give me any certain answers or relate.
I do have mild OCD. But these don't seem to fall in the three categories of intrusive thoughts, and what I am experiencing seems to be images.
Thanks
Dave
I suffer from a generalized anxiety disorder and was diagnosed many years ago. For the past 6 months I have been experiencing random unconnected images that just pop into my head out of no where. They frighten me and get my anxiety going. I am scared that it is a greater problem and that something is wrong with my brain, like I have the onset of Alzheimer or Parkinsons, or something along those lines. It really frightens me because they come out of no where.
For instance I will just be sitting at my computer at work typing away and I will get an image of the pizza guy coming to my house or some girl I haven't seen in 10 years and she had little meaning to me then and now. I was doing my taxes and I got an image of another lady I used to know dancing through a field. I also haven't seen her in years and she has nothing to do with a field.
Also when I have been trying to sleep it seems as soon as I lay down and close my eyes I get images right away. Such as last night The following images came into my head pretty quickly and left: a coconut cut in half, 2 paint brushes, a C-shaped box, German, a kid I havent seen in 15 years, twigs, Velcro, Daffy duck, some random old guy, freeze pops, and a red dodge car. I eat freeze pops but everything else seems random. This doesn't happen every night either.
Also, some nights I have been experiencing dreams while still awake it seems. I will close my eyes and think of writing stuff down and I will visualize it, then I see my cat jump up and want to push her away but the whole cat part seems like a dream. Or another example was it was snowing and I was awake but dreamed I had to go shovel my garage out, but I dont have a garage. I open my eyes and it scares me almost like they are delusions.
I am hoping it will pass and it is stress and anxiety related. But it really scares me and ruins my day. No one can seem to give me any certain answers or relate.
I do have mild OCD. But these don't seem to fall in the three categories of intrusive thoughts, and what I am experiencing seems to be images.
Thanks
Dave