Ok.. so another one of my fears is the fear of being schizophrenic or psychotic. I’m 9 weeks post partum and I read about psychosis and it freaked me out!! I’m 29 years old and I know schizophrenia happens in your teens or early 20s. My therapist told me that as long as I don’t have a voice telling me to act on my intrusive images or thoughts that it’s not psychotic. Once she said that later that day the words “do it” kept repeating in my mind. I have 0 desire to harm anyone and I’ve never been a violent person. If anyone has experienced something similar please share! I feel like my mind loves to switch things up and play tricks on me.

ahh i feel the same way! i had to tip toe around explaininh my intrusive thoughts to different therapists because first off, if they misdiagnosed me and said it to me i’d freak out (my worst nightmare would kind of become true) and i really wanted them to know that in NO WAY did i want to do what the thoughts were about, but they came in a really aggressive way, and much to an extent where to a therapist it couldve sounded like i heard voices. but luckily my therapist knows a lot about ocd and other disorders too, and she told me they’re called (in danish at least) “aggressive intrusive thoughts” which come in, you guessed it, a more aggressive form. like for example in the “do it” form. mainly those thoughts only end up looking like that because you fear that you’ll end up thinking of wanting to act on the images or impulses, and so your brain kinda goes “is this the way the horrible thought would be like?” and then it enters and usually stays around if youre frightened of it.

I have this same fear as well. Anything that you read or hear about it will stick in you mind. I constantly ask myself am I going to act out these thoughts and fight with my inner voice. It’s normal. OCD is a pain in the ass.i have no desire to harm myself or anyone either but my mind constantly says “do it” as well. You never will. The OCD will just torment you. You are going to be ok. Googling stuff about schizophrenia and psychosis has me the most anxious I’ve ever been but that’s just it, it’s only anxiety.

I just got over a bad schizophrenic spike. It really scared me because I would read something online about it and almost tried convincing myself that I was psychotic or schizophrenic. I have definitely had intrusive thoughts that made me feel like it was a voice but I then realized that it was just OCD taking it on because I didn’t want to think it. It’s so frustrating but as soon as you get the anxiety to calm down you realize that it’s just that, anxiety. I’m not trying to reassure you because that’s probably the worst thing you can do because it takes the anxiety away for a little but then it’ll come back but if you were truly psychotic or schizophrenic you probably wouldn’t be scared or worried about it. You would just believe full heartily that there was a voice telling you to do things. Stay strong?

Yes I just read up on it and now I feel super anxious

Yes I just read up on it and now I feel super anxious Even though i have never heard a voice in my head I have told myself that I am not a pedofile (I am suffering with pocd)