I just read something about psychosis/schizophrenia and now I'm super freaked out that something like that could happen to me and make me actually do my thoughts ? I've been doing really good lately but this just threw me off so much

@mummers thank you, you're so right. I had/have existential OCD as well which made me question if everything is real or not so yes his comment was definitely triggering even though I agree he was trying to help. I should probably stop question/ruminating about it so much, I have been by accident for about an hour. Rarely happens to me anymore but this one really threw me off and I didn't know how to do ERP for it

It’s been my main obsession for the past month or so, I totally get you. Not looking for reassurance online or in real life and making sure that you do daily activities that you can engage in are the only way out of this, to be honest. In time you’ll be able to see it with perspective!

Thank you! I've already calmed down a little bit since I posted this but it still scares me so much. I've had this obsession before (obsessing over different mental illnesses) but it hasn't bothered me in a while. Reading this just freaked me out because I realized it could make all of my other obsessions come true too, if it happened. The one thing that's helped me is knowing my mind is in control of me and not my brain/thoughts, but these illnesses are all the opposite of that (if this makes sense), so it just blew up everything

I'm also home alone right now so I'm even more freaked out. I did the SOS feature it helped a little but I'm still freaked

ive experienced psychosis more than once. drugs were involved and there were warning signs. don’t worry about it! it doesn’t happen overnight. also, make sure you check in with other people to tell them about your reality. if you start having delusions, please communicate them. remember, there is no harm ever in sharing your thoughts w a professional. or here. if you start to believe in an alternative reality, tell people so it can be nipped in the bud.

i became psychotic bc i started keeping my reality secret. if you never do that, you wont ever have that problem

Well great, I have a fear that there's multiple realities that I'm unaware of so I guess I really am going crazy

Don't tell me more, I'll just convince myself that it's happening it me

Alissaa, I really don’t want to reassure you right now, but just know that OCD is the fear of something happening, not actually believing it. Doubting even the weirdest of things is OCD

Oh and I know how you feel. It triggered me too ? but T3ddy’s comment wasn’t mean spirited, I know that. He thought he could reassure us, but these things work against us unfortunately.

ok i wasnt reassuring you, just telling you what the warning signs were. you’re obviously not psychotic if you’re worried about being psychotic. and there aren’t multiple realities, that’s the whole point.

i’ve actually been through it more than once and i promise you, i wasnt at all obsessing about being psychotic when it happened.

i have ocd too you know

I hear you, I use to spend hours to full days in Barnes and noble reading about different mental health disorders and diseases. I swear I resonated with every single one. I drove myself crazy thinking that I could have one or all of these things and no one would figure it out and I’d suffer forever and I felt intense panic. I now know that was OCD. The OCD disguises itself as every other illness, and worst of all it makes you believe that it’s voice is your own voice. So it’s hard to trust ourselves. Which is very scary. But recognizing that OCD does that, helps me to be aware and realize that it’s okay if I don’t know.

Hey Alissaa, I have existential ocd too, pretty severe as well. It’s a bit comforting knowing that I’m not alone... if u need anything I’m here!

@T3ddy, thank you! We’re just feeling very apprehensive about the whole thing so it personally made my ocd spike, but I know your intention was to help!!

Pure o sufferer here and I did salvia trip recently actually helped would u believe. Reset my brain so to speak, I may still have floating thoughts of harm or whatever but there’s no attention payed hence lower anxiety levels . And @alissaa there probably are multiple dimensions I shit u not.

Wow, super arrogant comment to make to someone suffering with this OCD obsession. That’s your opinion, whatever, but this is a really triggering thing to say. Please don’t comment again

@alissaa I apologize I wasn’t coming off arrogant . Peace