I’m also a bit confused as to why the closure. I’ve read the rationalizing but not finding it rational.
yeah okay clearly you’re not amused, and I don’t think anyone was as it wasn’t intended to be a funny thread.
that’s very much how it appears though, knee-jerk reaction to a thread title. OP isn’t psychotic, as many people have already concluded - many people do have these odd and disturbing thoughts and don’t understand them, and this thread was an attempt to gain some understanding. At least the OP can take some solace that other people do recognize those thought patterns, even if we’re all supposed to stand around and never admit to their existence. :rolleyes:
Many people have thoughts like these and are o.k., but some who have thoughts like these are not(here I am speaking from personal experience, having lost one friend and almost lost another), and the best way to find out is to seek the advice of a professional who can examine the thought patterns of the client and study them in context of the client’s personal life. I never said the OP was psychotic-unlike some in this thread and the original one, I’m not willing to give a diagnosis over the internet for two damn good reasons:
I don’t have all the information needed to give a proper diagnosis, and
I am not a professional in the field necessary to make such a diagnosis in the first place.
I know someone who posted here complaining of a severe headache. Which reminds me, I had a real-life friend who had a severe headache and it turned out they had a brain tumor!!! Oh noes!!!
Not to make light of your loss but really, in other words, what’s the friggin’ difference? If I come here to swap stories about my distended rectum, I don’t think anyone will shut down my thread just because the particular moderator overseeing the thread is not a certified proctologist. Why do you think that mental health is such a touchy area as opposed to other kinds of health?
You want to compare having a headache with thinking about stabbing someone in the leg or pouring boiling water on a puppy? No thank you.
I’m not saying that mental health is a touchy subject as opposed to other kinds of health-I’m saying that mental health just as important as other kinds of health. If you want to know if that strange growth on your arm is something you should be concerned about, your best bet is to take it to a medical professional who can examine it in person and talk to you about your personal history. Asking a bunch of anonymous posters on a message board who might have had a somewhat similar experience, and have no access to your medical records, is such a poor second that it comes in third, imho.
If someone posted here complaining of repeatedly having severe headaches and they didn’t know the cause, and I had to choose between closing the thread with a strong recommendation to see a medical professional, and leaving the thread open to a bunch of people saying “Hey, I get headaches all the time-it’s normal!”, you can bet your last shiny nickel I’d pick the former.
I agree that the phenomenon under discussion is unlike headaches, but for the opposite reason. Headaches are an ailment. Stray, possibly-disturbing thoughts appear to be just a normal feature of the human mind.
Either headaches or stray thoughts could be indicators of something amiss, but neither need be.
I don’t expect to change anyone’s mind on the subject, but I think closure of the thread was not objectively warranted, and out of character with the general ethos of the SDMB.
Here I am! I didn’t realize this thread had been started, thanks for letting me know Rack-a-Bones.
I suppose I can sort of see why the thread was closed, but I also thought it was obvious that I wasn’t asking for medical advice, and from the contributions to the thread, it’s also obvious that this is a normal part of the human psyche and not at all abnormal. If I hadn’t posted ‘So, should I commit myself’, would the thread not be closed? That’s the phrase that was highlighted when closed by the mod.
Also, just wanted to ask why the mod in question didn’t respond to my PM asking for clarification? That’s not very mod-ly.
And now that I’ve read all the comments, a few to add.
No mod ever PMed me about the closed thread, either to explain, or express concern.
I am not crazy or psychotic. Interestingly, I polled family after dinner last night about these thoughts and asked if they had any of their own. Three of four did, and we concluded that it’s very normal. One lamented the fact that he sometimes had flashes of stabbing his wife, another said sometimes she’ll be petting her cat and would wonder what would happen if she just strangled it.
That said, reading some of the comments by Czarcasm in this thread almost makes me think it isn’t normal. Perhaps we should all be admitted? Or perhaps he’s just one of those people that don’t have these thoughts and thinks we’re all crazy, same as my husband does.
There is nothing I could have said in a PM that I didn’t say in my initial post, and nowhere have I said you were psychotic or needed to be committed so the sooner that pathetic strawman is dumped, the better. I merely suggested that you consult a professional who could tell you what your personal situation is better than a bunch of anonymous posters who have no idea what your personal, mental and physical condition might be.
I was not privy to your light-hearted family discussion last night where people people discussed fantasies about stabbing wives and strangling cats. I only had your own post to go on, and all I did was close the thread and ask you to talk to someone who could possibly give you some answers.
Hmmm. I can see wanting to strangle your pet, but stabbing your spouse? Then again, there are people on this board participating in a death pool or wanting to bugger somebody with a stake. YMMV and all that I suppose.
It was established early on in the thread that irrational thoughts are common and not a big deal; this really looks like you’re viewing this thread through the light of your own personal, tragic circumstances, Czarcasm, instead of aiming for impartial.
Gee, and here I thought that advising someone to seek out a professional to find out if there was a problem to worry about was being impartial. Silly me.
I could have sworn we had done a similar thread lately, but it was restricted to the desire to jump from heights or crashing one’s car, with only a couple mention of body harm to others. Which is why I guess it wasn’t moderated.
