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’ve always wanted to do this…
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.
Why isn’t this post marked as NSFW
Nothing wrong with striking while the iron is hot
I hope they weren’t in California, that stuff causes cancer in California.
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 😅
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 😭🙏
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 🖕
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…
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.
It’s just unnecessary. If you can’t control yourself from harming others, animals or things, there is work to do.
I am not saying one can not have the thoughts of doing the wildest or weirdest things. Thoughts about options are okay but having an urge to commit diametral actions or even performing them seems somewhat pathologic to me.
