r/intrusivethoughts↗
Intrusive Thoughts
A subreddit for you to share all those intrusive, recurring thoughts or ideas that race through your head throughout the day. Intrusive thoughts are random thoughts you have that make you want to do *crazy* things, such as "hit him with your car, jump off the building, and throwing the baby on the ground." For the darker shower thoughts.
107k subscribers236 posts / mo in Sep 2026204 authors / mosince 2012
r/intrusivethoughts has 107k members (+5.0% over the last 12 months). It gets about 236 posts a month from 204 people. Top topics: Phone Drops and Cracks, Bosses_and_Coworkers and Baby & Birth Stories.
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- Phone Drops and Cracks0.2%
- Bosses_and_Coworkers0.1%
- Baby & Birth Stories0.1%
- Ice Cream Varieties0.1%
- Jump Mechanics Issues0.1%
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- Substack
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