Is it normal that i have random violent thoughts?

Sometimes I get these weird thoughts of hurting someone. I would usually imagine beating a random person into a bloody pulp. Then I start walking back and forth with tight fists for a few seconds as I think about it. I'm not really a violent person at all. I've never been in a fight and I'm a really nice guy. I would never go out and actually do this to someone. I was just wondering if this is normal.

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Based on 97 votes (72 yes)
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  • JellyBoo

    I think this is a form of OCD; intrusive thoughts. I have them too, and I've been diagnosed with OCD, mostly germ phobia though. I'll be standing at a road waiting to cross with someone and all of a sudden I'll get an vision of pushing them into an oncoming car.. I know I would never do that - I don't even swat flies xD As long as you don't act on them, there's nothing wrong with such thoughts I don't think.

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  • Quiblum

    Maybe you're like this precisely because you are nice and you're not used to having hostile thoughts. Maybe you've experienced some kind of event where you didn't express your feelings, and keeping them bottled up results in random violence thoughts.
    If you're always nice and considerate your fuse is bound to blow sometime.
    Same here, actually, but it's different with me. I imagine things that I would do to people just to see how they would react. For example, if someone asks for a fork, I sometimes imagine stabbing it through their eye and calmly walking away. Will they drop to the floor, spasming in agony? Or scream their lungs out? But then again, I'm manic depressive. Don't listen to me.

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  • chewy

    Yeah this happens to me from time to time.

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  • alv1592

    I feel the same once in a while. But actually I only fantasize about hurting/torturing people when I'm mad at them. Normal as long as you don't kill anyone.

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  • midnightwolf215

    its just your way of dealing with the built up anger because you are not a very violent person i am the same sometimes i even go as far to as threaten people but most people that know me know i wouldnt actually do it and have got used to it but yes it is normal not ure how normal myne is though going that far never really thought about it till now

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  • normalgirlisnormal

    thats sexy

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  • enis204

    Of couse it is normal.For people like you and me, who are not violent people ; As long as we dont do any violent things in our lifes, the stress of the day or maybe other people's attitude, fills us hatred within.So these thoughts are explosion of these hatred in order to mental relaxing.Also if you play to much violent games, it is normal to think about doing same kind of things to people around.Whenever I get angry or gain hatred of others around me, I say myself that " I'm gonna kill' em all, one day ". I even imagine about it.İt is better than carry the weight of hatred inside.It even gives the mental pleasure.

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    • Melodeath

      Hmmm. I guess that makes sense.

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  • zchristian

    Im also not really a violent person still thoughts of cutting people in half with a laser of wacking their head of with a sword and such things seem to pop up in my mind...

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