Does anyone else struggle with the sub type of getting other mental illnesses? I don’t know why but out of nowhere I have now been struggling with thoughts of developing schizophrenia. Now I spend my time checking and making sure I’m not having any symptoms but the weird thing is my brain is like mimicking symptoms and then I end up with an anxiety attack because I feel as if I’m going crazy or I’m having delusional thoughts. It’s kind of put me in a funk and I’m hoping this passes. I’ve had something similar happen a few years before and was able to get out of it but if I have what I feel is a bizarre thought, I convince myself the thought wasn’t normal and I’m going crazy. Does anyone have any tips? Or similar situation?

I have been dealing with this as well 😔 it’s not fun!! I would double check to make sure things I saw and noises I heard were real “just to make sure” (they were always real) but it still scares me so much

Currently dealing with this right now from the moment I wake up to to the moment I fall asleep, constantly checking if I’m schizophrenic or if I’m hearing things or seeing things it’s very tiring but I know i need to keep telling myself it’s just ocd and that my anxiety is just heightened. I totally get the “anxiety mimicking symptoms” i then get thrown into a huge panic that it’s finally happening that I’m now schizophrenic even tho anxiety and ocd can literally make us believe anything when we’re in such a panic state. What has helped me is finding ocd Instagram accounts and YouTube accounts as there is many posts on this theme and to know that I’m not the only one experiencing this theme which has reduced my anxiety a bit

That makes sense! So our thoughts are probably just firing because we are in fight or flight? It’s just so weird cause they come out of nowhere and are so random and weird that it always stops and makes me feel anxious cause I feel they are not normal thoughts and that makes me think somethings wrong. I don’t know if that makes sense lol. Thank you!

And by no means am I saying that if you have schizophrenia, you are crazy! I just want to clarify that. It’s just kind of a anxiety feeling I get like I feel as if I’m losing my mind and I’m not in control. I guess my fear is based on losing the somewhat normalcy/ routine I have and not being able to do everything for myself. I really hope I’m not offending anyone but I just don’t know how else to explain it.

Thank you so much for responding! I’ve been double checking too! It’s frustrating cause I feel I could become schizophrenic any second and I know logically that’s it’s my OCD but it feels so real. My new thing is having random bizarre thoughts and then my mind is like yep that’s not a normal thought, Must be a delusion. Then I panic and think that that’s it, I’m losing it. Ugh I hope I pull myself out! Sending you all the positive thoughts your way! Just know you are very strong from facing OCD everyday!