need opinions
My friend just told me something about himself that is really disturbing and scary. He's a really close friend of mine and good person. I really would never see him doing any of these things but he just opened up to me about these prominent impulsive thoughts he has very frequently. He told me that he gets these violent thoughts about hurting/killing someone in weird brutal ways but has no control over them, they just pop up in his head out of his control and could be towards anybody. He even told me that he's had thoughts pop up in his head about doing something to me but he says he doesn't have the urge to act on any of the thoughts he really doesn't want to and would never. He said it started 4 years ago and they haven't stopped since. He even gets weirded out by them and he said they get annoying as well and thinks to himself on why he's even thinking like that or how the thoughts are even coming to his head. He doesn't know why it happens or why they started in the first place. I was wondering if anybody knows something about this or knows anybody else like this. He hasn't told anybody about this.