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- 7y
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- 7y
Thanks man, I’ve never posted before, but it really does help. I’ve just basically convinced myself I have it from every little thing I experience. I need to start getting in the mindset that if I were TRULY experiencing it I’d be alright, but it’s a lot easier said than done
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- 7y
like i said, it was only really an obsession for like a day or two, so i didn’t get too deep into it. it’s really hard to tell you what to do because of this as i just eventually decided that i wouldn’t know until it happens and i can’t worry about it. but some things i’d like u to know r: if u were schizophrenic, you wouldn’t be wondering if u were schizophrenic!! it is also a condition that often runs in families so if u don’t have a genetic connection to it then it’s not really worth thinking about, even though i know that doesn’t really help either way as ocd doesn’t care about logic !!! my #1 suggestion is to just accept the uncertainty !! after all, the worst case scenario is u have an illness that is (typically) highly treatable (while not ignoring it’s definitely hard!!) many people w schizophrenia can live a normal life, which i think really helped me let go of the obsession when i learned that.
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- 7y
but at the end of the day, if u have ocd then it’s likely just ocd!! u r smarter & stronger than ocd and even though it’s hard as hell, ur gonna get through this!! ??
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- 7y
Thanks Dee, this obsession is so irrational. I’m sure I’d be fine today if I never read about schizo. Just the word honestly scares me.
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- 7y
i’ve dealt with that obsession but it was never particularly strong.
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- 7y
This obsessions has literally ruined my life. I almost checked myself in today and they just kinda laughed at me over there. Any tips. I’m always thinking I’m hearing things, but I’m pretty sure it’s just sounds in my environment and every delusion ive ever read about (which was the worst mistake I could have made) keeps replaying in my mind.
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- 7y
Omie, if you were a schizophrenic you would seriously know that. That is a huge disability and their are harsh symptoms to that.
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- 7y
I had fear I was going crazy, worried about psychosis been worried about schiz. before too... basically just worried that I’m crazy and it’s not ocd.
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- 7y
However what I have tried to do is look at facts. Okay, why do I feel this way? Well because of this... okay, now is this fact based or a perception. Etc There are facts then there are the stories that we make up about what the facts might mean...
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- 7y
Also schizophrenia looks different than ocd. And it would make sense to get ocd were you are worried about it.. because that’s what we do well... we obsess and we dwell and we ruminate and run up a wall with it. And at the end of the day if you still aren’t sure you could get diagnosed again, if you wanted to. The facts come to the surface. I find the question- What’s the likelihood that this is a real issue or that this is my disorder on overdrive?
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- 7y
Idk if that’s helpful but I hope it is! Big hugs, I know it can suck but you can bust past the bs.
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- 7y
That’s the funny thing about ocd when we aren’t feeling anxious we are like wow that was really ridiculous.. but then we are anxious it feels so incredibly real. But because of those polar opposites must mean we are quite creative and intelligent so I vote we go paint something or write something and tell ocd it can kick our ass. We will use our creativity for fun for ourselves and not to torment ourselves. ? ??
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- 5y
How are you now? This is my current obsession
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- 24w
i have been diagnosed with OCD & generalized anxiety disorder. for some reason, i’ve been very hyper aware of everything. like the way i talk, the way i see the world, how certain things sound/look/feel, and it’s very distressing. i feel like the hyper awareness makes me afraid of things? like for some reason, my mind attached to cartoons, and i was hyperfocusing on it, and got extremely scared, like scared of the cartoon for no reason? i’ve done this a lot, and i get scared i have psychosis or schizophrenia, or something that makes you afraid of things for no unknown reason. i feel so scared that this is my new normal…. im heartbroken. so many what if’s. did i just ruin my own life?? 💔
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- 18w
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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- 14w
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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