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Originally Posted by Pie
I still sometimes get a flash through my head of ramming my car into an overpass or some such when I'm driving. It's weird how strong the impulse can be. And I currently have no reason whatsoever to want to do such a thing.
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A friend told me once (and he said he got it from his shrink, for whatever that's worth) that this is, oddly enough, a mental phenomenon associated with obsessive-compulsive tendencies, and doesn't actually reflect a genuine desire to be hurt or die. It's more of a mental compulsion to do something because it is there to do, if that makes sense. Anyway, he and/or the shrink also claimed it was far, far more common than most people realize.
(In case it isn't obvious, I used to have thoughts like this casually pop into my head all the time, but they've slowly gone away over the last 5 years or so--coupled with a huge mellowing of my once strong OCD tendencies, but I don't know if I'd go so far as to say for sure they're related.)