The Daily Mail reports that the 52-year-old singer, who has four children with wife Ayda Field, has found it helpful to have a creative outlet to overcome his intrusive thoughts.
“What I’m completely and utterly obsessed with is creating images and making funny things. If I’m creating images and funny things, I’m not thinking about me, because my brain is incredibly creative, and it can be creative about everything in the world that you panic or are scared about.
“For example, this is how crazy I am: recently, I was sitting on a plane, and I thought, ‘What if I can have telekinesis and my intrusive thoughts tell the plane to crash itself?’
“So that’s the kind of level of insanity that I’m dealing with. It’s best to train my brain to do something better than worrying about having supernatural powers and crashing a plane.”
In October, Williams said his intrusive thoughts were a form of “inside Tourette’s”, an inherited neurological condition that affects people through involuntary tics.
He told comedian Paul Whitehouse and researcher Dr Mine Conkbayir for an upcoming episode of their podcast I’m ADHD! No You’re Not, “I’ve just realised that I have Tourette’s, but they don’t come out.
“They are intrusive thoughts that happen. I was just walking down the road the other day, and I realised that these intrusive thoughts are inside Tourette’s. It just doesn’t come out.
“Not only that, you would think that a stadium full of people professing their love to you would work as [a distraction], but whatever it is inside me cannot hear it. I cannot take it in.”