- Username
- Brian F
- Date posted
- 2y ago
Thanks for your input. I believe being constantly in an an anxiety state, worrying and having your mind race with obsessive thoughts trying to convince you some physiological issue is causing the problem just overloads your mind. I think the cognitive issues and the brain fog are just a result of fatigue and exhaustion. Iv found some comfort in just accepting the uncertainty. I know it’s very unlikely I’m losing my mind but I have to accept that I can’t be 100% certain and I can’t do anything about that. Somehow that has eased the severity a bit.
Yes. I’ve been experiencing this for almost 3 years, and it got somewhat better last year but then my harm OCD hit and now I’m all over the place, full of extreme brain fog. I fear what if I act on my thoughts because I’m so full of brain fog, or what if I don’t love my family. Im not sure where my brain fog is coming from exactly but I think it may be coming from my depersonalization/derealization.
I also thought I had a brain tumor last year because of it, and I went to the ER and got a CT scan; everything was normal though.
Yes, my main fear is losing control either by going crazy, forgetting who I am, or developing a problem with my brain. My ocd bothered me all day today and at the end of the day, I had a hard time pinpointing exactly what I was obsessing over today. That started me down a spiral that something must be wrong with my brain to not remember exactly what I was thinking. It’s a hard thing to accept uncertainty to.
Does anyone had or have the existential fear of our brain functions. I have so much hyperawareness in my thoughts, I focus all the time in my feelings and my intentions in order to check if I am strange or not and if I have control of my actions. I do psychotherapy 4 years and I thought I was fine. But this June I had a derealization episode(or ocd) , after that a depersonalization episode (or ocd) and after that I have obsessions about our existence and that every aspect in our lives has to do with our brain and for some reason these thoughts scary me. I know that at some point is ocd but I am very confused why this thoughts scary me so much. I observe others and I am curious how it's possible not to think about that and this make it worse . I am so anxious because obviously we are our brain ,I know that and brain has to do with everything,but I don't know why it make me anxious and if it's possible to live without these thoughts. I do many compulsion but my biggest is to figure out if I have compulsion in order to figure out if my thoughts is ocd or delusions. It's so real and these thoughts really bother me. Any other with same experience?
I feel like im loosing my mind. I feel like i experience derealization or what. I feel confused like very very confused. I cant even think normally. Im just tired. I feel like im loosing myself. Im scared that everyone tells me that i have OCD, but what if this is all true? I dont think and im scared that other so-ocd sufferers dont feel this way as i do. I feel literally, LITERALLY so convinced that this must be true. It feels like i already accepted that this is true. Im done. My brain is broken. I even started to have thoughts like what if i have schizophrenia or dissociative identity disorder. Help me please. Do i have psychosis or what?
im not diagnosed, but these past two days have been terrible. i constantly have this underlying feeling that i might do something that i think is gross and i feel like i can’t do anything on my own because otherwise i might do something wrong. like i feel like i constantly have to be in front of people so that i can make sure of my every action. this is so exhausting and I’m so confused. and like i keep getting terrible images and stuff replaying in my head. i also try to recall what happened but i feel like i have false event too. i used to have religious ocd and that eventually stopped completely, but now it feels like all my work getting over that was pointless. also like i feel like i might have contamination ocd but not the typical germ type. I just get terrible images and I can’t remember if those images are true or not even though they’re impossible and i feel terrible. I don’t know if i could ever get over this because even the thought of it is terrible.
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