Does anyone suffer from schizophrenia/psychosis OCD? Where they are so afraid that this is what is happening rather than anxiety or OCD? Like intrusive thoughts of the same nature a person suffering psychosis would have? Or doing mental rituals to prevent hallucinations or delusions from happening? A lot of my compulsions are avoidance too which severely impacts my quality of life. It isn’t as common as other themes and there’s other parts of it that stem from trauma, but this is the general theme.

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.

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.

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 :)

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.

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/