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I did cuz I didn’t know I had ocd I thought all the thoughts and feelings I were experiencing do to ocd were because I was schizophrenic n I actually had put myself in a mental hospital only to find out I had ocd but yes it was awfulll felt like I was gonna go crazy n it caused me to get bad derealization.
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I’m sorry that you experienced this. I hope you have made good progress with recovery and understand your condition better now.
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@cmd88 Thank you so much!
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As I said I don’t think it’s very common. I’ve been assessed several times by psychiatrists and I have OCD and a typical depressive order. Both of which are obviously very different from psychosis. Psychosis is a collection of symptoms and basically means a loss of touch with reality. I am aware that my thoughts and compulsions are irrational and that nothing I do to prevent becoming psychotic would actually really work, just as someone who compulsively counts or repeats phrases to prevent something bad happening doesn’t prevent bad things happening. I’m just looking for anyone with similar obsessions and compulsions.
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Well actually it’s more common then you’d think I know people who have felt the same exact way because of ocd. Ocd can make you feel like your crazy because of all the silly things it makes you do to escape a fear. That’s how ocd sucks u in even more it makes you like doubt even your ocd yourself your like maybe I really am just crazy it isn’t ocd. But that’s ocd in itself it just wants you to worry. Therapists have told my friend that has had that ocd too before to say to yourself so what if I have schizophrenia or maybe I do. Don’t try to find a certain answer. And to refrain from those compulsions whatever they may be. Hope that helps some!
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I don't know if this is exactly the same issue but my HOCD became near psychosis, so maybe that's what you have? Medication helped me. Good luck :)
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Hi. Thanks for sharing. No, I don’t think that’s the same thing at all . Thank you though 😊
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I had this when I was younger and my mom/therapist thought I did have schizophrenia at one point. Turns out I had PTSD from abuse instead. I think my mom would’ve preferred me having schizophrenia over PTSD from abuse. But it runs in the family and I stopped caring that it would develop, so they subtype went away.
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Personally how I got over mine was to let the thoughts come in and don’t give them the attention they want. Just sit with them and don’t react or try to get them to go away. Remember with ocd making them go away only leads them to come more often/
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- 20w
I have been having these fears about developing schizophrenia, it reached a point where i am starting to almost hear things or the smallest sounds and my mind tells me you're schizophrenic, and i feel this weird sensations in my ear as if someone is whispering yet i can barely hear them, the thing is i am not diagnosed yet because i never work with an OCD therapist but i study psychology so i just used what i learnt to give a meaning to my suffering, many themes of this fear have been happening before and this schizophrenia fear is the last one. I want to know what advice you can give me or ways to make my brain calm down a little bit, i also don't have and can't afford a therapist that's why i am here in the first place I also want to know more informations or experiences with this theme if anyone habe experienced it and what helped you with it I remember feeling better for a while but than i collapsed back, but i am hoping to get better soon too or anytime in the future, I don't want reassurance so make sure you be as real as you can, and thanks 🙏🏻
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I don't know what this is, I don't know enough about OCD, my psychiatrist put me on a medication and told me I have OCD and a mood disorder but I didn't ask any questions because I didn't want to be annoying. I have "evidence" that every year, when I think about death, the world kills someone I love, and it always happens twice. I have nothing to help change that, like, I don't do anything with my thoughts or anything numbers or ritually, so I wasn't sure if it even was OCD, but I do move my hands in certain ways to make my friends happy or improve their lives. Also I cant turn off my fan or something SA related will happen (i dont know how) I think that the world is threatening me, and that if I do something wrong or involve myself with certain things, the world will punish me and the people around me, so all I can do is apologize I've tried looking into the different types of OCD, and all of them are things that I've been anxious about before, but I haven't really been so anxious about any one of them in particular or held onto it for so long, or done any rituals, that I would probably not even say I have OCD. Like, I worry that I'm a nazi, I worry that I like kids, I worry that I killed my friend, I worry that I have schizophrenia or am somehow giving myself it, I worry that I'm going to abuse someone, I worry that I've already abused someone, I worry that somehow I might die, I worry people can hear my thoughts, I worry about ignoring my friend when he cried out for help, I worry that God has already rejected me from heaven, I worry that I like women, I worry that if I don't hit the hammer 9 times on the wall when Im using it that just something bad will happen that I dont know what and I don't know why, and I feel like I don't have a single compulsion that can even "fix" or bring relief to any of these things besides saying sorry, because if I say sorry at least people know that I am apologetic for the crimes I've committed, but saying sorry doesn't fix anything except my own guilt so I'm just a bad person looking for sympathy or seeking attention I don't know enough about OCD, and I don't know how to seek help for my condition because I don't even know if that's really what I have, if I'm not just simply anxious, or possibly schizophrenic Does any of this seem familiar to anyone? Can it be this varied and unfocused? Does this really sound like OCD, or can it be anything else, because I don't want to bark up the wrong tree when I could just be taking medication for something else.
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- 10w
My OCD diagnosis is still very new, but now that I know what it is, it is clearly something I’ve had for as long as I can remember. Contamination/bugs and health have been a consistent theme since childhood, but religious/existential themes emerged during adolescence. Around that same time, there was also a good deal of trauma, and during middle school I started experiencing hallucinations. Tactile (like bugs crawling on me or biting me, an eyelash being stuck in my eye, but nothing was really there); visual (like moving shadows or things that would dart past in my periphery, and then I would just have intrusive thoughts of scary things around corners or under things); and auditory (an angry male voice that grumbles or yells indistinctly, or a high pitched noise like a microphone/speaker feedback but muffled and less sharp). Because of the religious denomination I grew up in, I initially assumed these were demons and tried to address it that way, but when I was 14 or 15, it occurred to me that those voices/sounds sounded like the way I felt, and the visual/tactile experiences happened during times of stress too — and so all of those experiences could just be seen as an expression of a fragmented part of myself. That acceptance didn’t make them go away — I still experience them now and I’m in my 30s — but it made those experiences less scary and more manageable. I also see now how these all pop up specifically when OCD obsessions are super triggered and when I’m super sleep deprived. Anyway! Since this diagnosis, and talking about the hallucinations at all, are new to me, I am wondering who else has had similar experiences. I don’t really know how much of the hallucination experience is OCD versus trauma, but it seems like this might all make sense under the “quasi-hallucination” label.
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