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19 Memes You Won't Be Able to Get Out of Your Head If You Have Intrusive Thoughts

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If random, unwanted thoughts pop into your head on the regular, you might be dealing with intrusive thoughts. Intrusive thoughts can present themselves in different ways to different people. Even with just myself, my intrusive thoughts appear in various ways: Some days I am scared that a traumatic event will repeat itself other days I am overanalyzing a message that someone sent me.

Dealing with intrusive thoughts isn’t funny, but good memes about intrusive thoughts can be. One thing that can be difficult about having intrusive thoughts is how isolating they can be, as people rarely discuss them, myself included. The good news is if we don’t feel up to discussing our intrusive thoughts, we can just laugh at memes instead — at least for now.

Here are some memes that might be relatable if you have intrusive thoughts:

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https://skellybones69.tumblr.com/post/180818181571/me-is-lying-in-bed-at-3am-my-intrusive

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I made a meme based on a discussion posted here about worsening OCD during quarantine, but about thoughts unrelated to Coronavirus from r/OCD

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https://oh-theatre.tumblr.com/post/190090410862/me-having-a-relatively-ok-time-my-intrusive

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A post shared by Trisha Nichols (@thebrowngirl729)

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https://bpddisaster.tumblr.com/post/184772210376/havent-seen-this-done-yet

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Everytime I get an intrusive thought from r/OCDmemes

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https://meow-n-save.tumblr.com/post/170080861406/does-anyone-else-with-intrusive-thoughts-do-that

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My mind.. works in interesting ways from r/dankmemes

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A post shared by Charlie (@autistic.ticky.and.proud)

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https://musical-chick-13.tumblr.com/post/175073512626

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A post shared by Anxïety Mémés (@anxietymemes)

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https://actually-ocd-adhd.tumblr.com/post/616926655453233152/me-trying-to-reason-with-myself-my-ocd

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A post shared by Anxïety Mémés (@anxietymemes)

Originally published: January 15, 2021
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