The Imp Of The Perverse

I rather enjoy the frisson of excitement and dread, but then I lead a very boring life.

Its not a problem for me.

It’s obsessive intrusive thinking . It’s a form of OCD. There’s plenty of books about it and how to control it

It's a short story by Poe..

Crafergran Every time I pick up a knife large or small I get an urge to stab myself in the abdomen.

I have the jumping off a cliff thing, I keep away from high places.

I know somebody that has cute aggression, a recognised condition that makes you want to squeeze small animals.

I was very cross with my lover once and almost, almost keyed his car........

Well I'm so relieved it's not just me! It's happened many times - temptation to jump off a cliff or a bridge; shout in church; pick fluff of a stranger's coat; tell someone a secret that I have promised to keep. Glad to say though, I have never succumbed to any of them!

Every morning, at my all girls school, we had an assembly. Our head girl was rather rotund, and if ever she had to bend down, for some reason or other, I had an urge to shout out 'bum'.
Of course, being a ' laydee', I didn't. ?

Oh yes- I certainly do, and I have done it! At school I threw a currant at a prefect and it got stuck in her hair. I didn’t know what came over me, but it was awful! And a friend of mine, who I was sitting next to, had a lighter in her pencil case (I don’t know why.) She suddenly leaned forward and set fire to the end of the pigtail of the girl in front of us. We went to a very strict convent school, but somehow that just made us naughtier.
One of my friends, a very prim and proper lady normally, was waiting to cross the road when Boris Johnson’s motorcade swept past. She yelled “wanker!” As she said later, she had never used that word in her life.

Snatch the phone of the person pushing the buggy or stepping out in front of cars whilst staring at it.

Oh yes, my earliest memory of this was being sent to the co-op for a pint of milk, and having an almost unbearable urge to smash it on the path. I would have been in a heap of trouble had I succumbed!

I'm very very afraid of heights, and I think a little part of it is that "what if...." thought.

Oh yes, stabbing someone with a large kitchen knife when I'm doing the washing up. I never use the large knives as I am scared of them and use my little paring knife for all kitchen jobs but DH uses the large ones.
I never like to leave them lying around and they get washed and put straight into the drawer but whilst drying them I have those imp thoughts!!

Leaving notes in books I donate.

Isn't it a strange phenomena.
We're all going about our business, fleeting thinking about unforgivable things occasionally.

Pushing someone when I know they would go over a cliff or edge. I would never actually do it, it is just an intrusive thought.

I sometimes want to shout at people (on the bus, again!) or touch bottoms that are in close range.

I probably should be banned from buses

Never heard of this, as they say you are never too old to learn something new! No never anything as extreme. I have been tempted many times to tell people exactly what I thought of them, but as it was in the workplace, it wouldn't have been in my best interest to do so!

If I see a person slouching around with their shoulders all rounded and sloppy, I always have the urge to slap them between the shoulder-blades and say sternly, 'Straighten your back!' (A legacy from my dear mum.)

Yes, exactly that, Namsnanny

That's a common one, along with stepping in front of a train.

Well a common one I have is jumping off a cliff or high place, is that the same?

Must remember not to sit in front of you on a bus MissAdventure! But I have to admit to having mischievous thoughts, even at my age