You would think it would make me feel better to know that every person has intrusive thoughts. But it doesn’t at all, quite the opposite.
Yall are as crazy as I am, we are doomed.
Thanks. In 10 years of soldering, never once had I had this thought. Now I can’t unseen it! Damm
Just give in, do it to one spool, and you can move on with your life. Resistance only makes it hurt more.
That depends on the current and voltage
Back in the day I was told:
The volts give you the jolts
But the amps give you the crampsThe volts jolts, the mills kill.
No need for great resistance: all it takes is for a person to have a large capacity to stop being induced by such messages into doing such acts.
At worse you just get stuck in a loop of “should I do it or should I not do it”.
I see what you did there.
Painful resistance makes it that much more sweet when you finally succumb.
Well, facebook shorts have plenty of people doing exactly this in their “amazing crafts” videos where a dude usually does something extremely stupid and hazardous. I eyeroll when one pops up now
I was going to say it might be junk solder, but the brand looks well reviewed. Maybe counterfeit? I just had to deal with a kid’s first soldering kit containing “solder” with no listed alloy percentages. Couldn’t solder worth a damn.
I’ve always wanted to do this…
Was it satisfying? How did it feel? Don’t be shy about details.
I’m… err… asking for a friend.
No need to ask. I’ll be your friend.
Thank you. ❤️
Nothing wrong with striking while the iron is hot
Why isn’t this post marked as NSFW
I hope they weren’t in California, that stuff causes cancer in California.
It causes cancer anywhere.
Somehow, and I honestly don’t know how, I have passed by countless fire alarms in my life and resisted the urge to pull every one I see. It’s been 46 years. Here’s hoping my record will continue to be unbroken.
But my goodness, I’ve spent a long time resisting the History Eraser Button. Those alarms are even jolly and candylike!
Please don’t erase history! We need it 😭🙏
Melting crayons on oldschool incandescent lightbulbs was EXTREMELY satisfying as a kid
as a kid, I was the responsible for having the classroom’s key in breaks for a while.
and deep down I always had an irresistable urge to throw that key out the window, to the road outside. never did… but… it was soooo tempting. no idea, why, though 😅
This is what i’ve been doing as a kid.
I sometimes have my rosin and solder paste in similiar containers next to each other. It happens everytime that I want to accidentally dip my soldering iron into the solder paste
Last time I dipped my soldering iron into the solder paste I ended up with an asshole kid.
I used to regularly mangle candles with paper clips I would heat up in the flame and then use to skewer them. There’s something super cathartic about just melting the fuck out of things.
OMG your so literally cray-cray and quirky! Here’s your participation trophy 🖕
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I am not tempted by my intrusive thoughts, personally. Never understood the “intrusive thoughts won” meme. :P
You’ve never been near a ledge and thought, “what if I jumped?”
Never thought about dipping a finger in the blender or light socket?
Never thought of or touched something that you knew was way too hot?
Yes. All the time, and worse options besides. But there’s no temptation to do those things. It`s more like I’m being reminded that those are options, that nothing besides my own will – and the fact that I am in control of my body – prevents me from doing them. It’s scary. I hate it.
The part I don’t get is the idea that other people claim to have voices urging them to do these things.
Do you have an inner monologue? Some people don’t and that’s okay but a lot of people do have a “voice” for their conscious thoughts.
But the other thing you described is intrusive thoughts. We think, “This is a thing I could do” and we mostly don’t do them bc we think about the consequences and our inhibitions kick in.
Yes, I have inner monologue. And yes I know what I am describing is intrusive thoughts.
I think if you’re hearing actual voices urging you to do things that’s a condition that should be addressed, that’s not normal.
I am not hearing voices urging me to do things, don’t worry :P
The call of the void. Super common and pretty interesting.
And it’s always calling…
The people making these jokes don’t understand actual intrusive thoughts.
Intrusive thoughts are unwanted, involuntary thoughts, images, or ideas that can be distressing or upsetting. They can also be called interfering thoughts. These thoughts can occur spontaneously or be triggered by internal or external stimuli. They can be strange, aggressive, or sexual.
The act shown in the picture is certainly an intrusive thought.
The act in the picture isn’t a thought at all. It’s the result of someone deciding to do something destructive to see the result. I can’t imagine the thought “what if I stuck my soldering iron in the side of my solder spool” was that unwanted, distressing or upsetting, either. After all, OP decided to do it.
Doing it or not doing it doesn’t change the type of thought it is, based on the definition. I reality we will never know, this could have been and most likely was planned. But assuming they didn’t want to waste money and destroy a roll of solder, the thought could have been intrusive then acted on. The possibility is there.
In my understanding, intrusive thoughts is something like this: you`re walking along the street and pass a woman pushing a pram, and a thought pops up reminding you that you could kick it into the traffic if you wanted, and here’s all the consequences. And because you’re not a psycho you reel at the idea, wanting to smack your head for even imagining it. But there is no temptation, no urging. The thought cannot “win” because it is not trying to get you to do it, it’s just an imagined possible scenario.
This is something different from having an impulse, which is something you could act upon as you describe. Or, I suppose, it is indeed to just decide to do something from your intrusive thoughts, but that seems unlikely because a key part of the definition of “intrusive thought” is that the thought must be unwelcome and/or distressing.
Yes but in your description of an intrusive thought you could still act on it, you just don’t. But I’m sure there are people who at some point have.
I think your last sentence is close to where I sit. In my mind there is plenty of room for overlap between the two. You can have an intrusive thought with out without the impulse to do it. Yes it is distressing, but part of the intrusive thought is that sense of morbid wonder that I have to believe some people have acted on.
Also I’m no psychological expert or anything, I could be way off, it’s just my take.
You also don’t act on intrusive thoughts. This meme demonstrates an impulsive thought, not an intrusive one.
I doubt anyone wants to waste a whole roll of solder. It’s an unwanted action that they had a thought about. That’s the intrusive thought, they then just acted on it.
An intrusive thought is the thought, acting on it or not is separate.
I have to assume so. Mine are very much not welcome or tempting in the slightest.
Same. Which is why it’s intrusive. But I guess it’s cute for people to make light of others distressing neurological symptoms 🤷♂️
Yeah we`re both getting downvoted for this, it seems.
Because people literally don’t understand impulsive vs intrusive thoughts. I’m sticking to my guns on this one. The hive mind is wrong.
In my mind the two don’t have to be entirely separate even, there can be some overlap.
I hope you step into a tub of Legos.
I hope you stub your little toe twice today.
May you only roll Natural Ones for your initiative.
May every cat you try to pet run away in fear.
