Autumn Rain

Thanks. Yes, this would apply to something else I have been ruminating over and I am trying to apply the same to that.

I posed this question elsewhere but I'm also asking it here to get a wider response. Do you ever experience doubt about your gender identity? I am male, was born male and pretty sure my mind is male (for want of a better way to put it). I'm not a stereotypically masculine man, in fact the opposite in many ways, but I still see myself as male. Sometimes though I doubt myself and I think I might be trans. It's probably all in my head but at times it's been quite overwhelming.

Thank you, on both counts. ?

Hi, I have recently been struggling with intrusive thoughts and images that I can't seem to get rid of. I do not wish to go into detail about these thoughts but they are of a highly sensitive nature and they have caused me a lot of distress. Two weeks ago I was feeling suicidal because these thoughts made me feel like such an awful person who didn't deserve to live. I am in a better place now than I was then but I am still having trouble with these sorts of thoughts and they are constant! It seems like every waking minute these thoughts are stuck in my head and it's driving me insane. I've mostly gone past the "what do these thoughts about me?" stage. I know they don't mean anything but they are still there and I just want them to go away because they are so disgusting, messed up and wrong. How can I make them go away?