Panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, PTSD and more all may create unusual thoughts and feelings that you weren't expecting. Remember that what's weird to one person may not be weird to the next, and you can have weird thoughts without OCD. You're also more likely to suffer from similar thoughts, because the fear of having the weird thought causes more of them in uncomfortable situations. Unfortunately, studies have shown that if you try to not have a thought, you're actually more likely to get it again than if you hadn't tried to stop it. So they tell themselves to stop thinking about it. You Cannot Force Yourself to Stop the ThoughtsĪnother problem for those with anxiety is that they often want to force themselves to stop thinking those strange thoughts. Anxiety also makes regular weird thoughts more common - many people without anxiety have the occasional weird thought, but those with anxiety tend to focus on those thoughts more, worry about them, and then allow those thoughts to come back. Anxiety changes the way you think, causing you to have more negative, and ultimately more unusual thoughts. Psychologists may also look to see if you also have other anxiety symptoms, which are important for an anxiety diagnosis.īut if the question is whether or not anxiety can cause weird thoughts, the answer is absolutely yes. Only a psychologist can correctly determine whether or not your thoughts are the result of something other than an anxiety disorder. There are other disorders that can cause unusual, often unwanted thoughts. Often, although not always, those with OCD end up creating compulsions (behaviors that a person feels they "must" do) in order to stop the thoughts from occurring. But the most common strange thoughts are the ones above.Īll weird thoughts and obsessions may be a sign of obsessive compulsive disorder. Sometimes the thoughts can be truly strange, such as imagining unusual creatures doing unusual things either during dreams or in real life. It's important to remember that "weird" is a subjective quality, so what may be weird for one may not be weird for others. Thoughts of religious shame, hell, or Satanism.Thoughts of assault or murder, especially when gory.Thoughts of aggressive, violent, or perverse sexual acts.Usually when people start to become concerned over their weird thoughts, it's because the thoughts have become some type of cultural taboo. They're irrational, and they're often distressing, but they're not weird. But these aren't necessarily described as "weird" subjectively. Many of the thoughts in OCD are generic, such as a fear of contamination (fear of germs). Obsessive compulsive disorder is the most common anxiety disorder with "weird" thoughts, although they can occur in other types of anxiety as well. A problem usually occurs when either the thoughts are getting consistently weirder or they're becoming obsessions, where you cannot seem to stop thinking these weird thoughts. The occasional weird thought doesn't generally cause that much distress. If you're finding that these weird thoughts are causing you significant distress, and often either cause anxiety themselves or occur during periods of anxiety, that's when an anxiety problem is likely. It's not about the thoughts themselves, it's about how they impact your life. The reality is that there are many thoughts that are completely normal - even strange thoughts that make you feel awkward or uncomfortable once in a while. Instead, they try to fight the thoughts themselves, and ultimately only make these weird thoughts worse. So when anxiety starts causing weird thoughts, few people actually get help. Few people actually realize that anxiety changes how you see things and how you view things, and makes them all worse. They have all of these weird thoughts and they feel so natural that they think there is either something wrong with them or that there is nothing wrong at all. That's one of the reasons that so few people treat it. Anxiety genuinely affects the way you think.
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