Schizo fears again

I've started to have schizophrenia fears again :( I saw someone online say their schizophrenia started with voices in their head then it moved to actually physically hearing them and sometimes I have the voices in my head, like when I'm trying to sleep sometimes I have a song continuously playing in my head and it can stop me from sleeping and sometimes there's random conversations in my head? It's always when I'm trying to sleep though, I have just random people's voices in my head and it always freaks me out and I start panicking I have schizophrenia. But I think I have the "voices" whenever I'm worried about having/developing schizophrenia so I think it's just ocd causing the "voices". Has anyone else had similar experience? Any advice would really help

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Username: miquelmiquel

Date posted: 2y ago

hello, meeee. i usually struggle with false memory/real event but those obsessions come with a fear of “going mad because i don’t know the truth and not being able to stop thinking about it” or ending up in a sanatorium. so i think this is completely normal in OCD because it is a fear of losing control, but as always the answer is “maybe yes, maybe not”

Username: Pandora7Pandora7

Date posted: 2y ago

Thank you ❤️ I try with the maybe maybe not but I find it so hard to sit without researching, trying to find the absolute truth :/

Username: miquelmiquel

Date posted: 2y ago

@Pandora7 dw i know how hard it is but believe me it gets better over time, you just have to be resilient. I wish i could research but with my obsession the only source of information is my brain and, you know when you think about something too much it is distorted so no matter how horrible the memory is, you have to live with not knowing. Eventually the guilt fades away, even if it takes a day, a week, a month… it does go away. Stay strong

Username: Pandora7Pandora7

Date posted: 2y ago

@miquel Thank you alot stay strong too ❤️

Username: CisforcaroCisforcaro

Date posted: 2y ago

@Pandora7 Remember too that "maybe, maybe not" does not mean 50/50 chance.

Username: A.SmithA.Smith

Date posted: 2y ago

So, I suffer from the same. Im not reassuring or going against the rules of this app, but this thought has helped me a bit "the fact you are concerned about it, means you don't have it" if i had a nickel for everytime my mind thought about schizophrenia, I'd be retired. It affects less than 1 percent of people, and if there is no family history or substance abuse history, that percentage drops even more. Understand, schizophrenia is a thought disorder. They don't argue their thoughts and hallucinations. they see them as normal. Plus, others would notice issues with you. I'm a month into this flavor of OCD and its consumed my every day. You aren't alone. Anxiety and OCD can play some real complex tricks on you. Even to the point of simple autitory/visual hallucinations. Doesn't mean anything, just your brain stressed out. It's tough to overcome, but keep pushing on, you are doing great! Much love

Username: Pandora7Pandora7

Date posted: 2y ago

Thank you so much, I don't have any family history of schizophrenia that I know of, my family has got alot of anxiety issues, I'm pretty sure my dad had some sort of existential ocd from what I've heard and my mum has general anxiety, my cousin doesn't even leave the house because of panic attacks so it makes sense that I would have an anxiety issue. I do have odd thoughts though which make me panic that i have schizophrenia, but whenever I have them I do recognise them as odd and I have insight, which I think means it's not schizophrenia? I've had this theme for almost 2 years and it comes and goes. It's the worst :(

Username: brian21brian21

Date posted: 1y ago

@A.Smith Hey how’s it going for u

Username: A.SmithA.Smith

Date posted: 2y ago

I heard this from a mental health professional a few years ago and its really helped me. Obviously they used much nicer, professional words, but the cliffnoted version is "crazy people don't know they are crazy" if you've registered any of your symptoms as odd or insane, I'm willing to bet you are in the clear. Your brain is a piece of meat with electricity inside of it, it's going to do weird stuff. A little funny statement I tell myself when I get lost in OCD land

Username: Pandora7Pandora7

Date posted: 2y ago

I like that alot thank you 😂❤️

Username: izabellagraceizabellagrace

Date posted: 2y ago

in this same boat right now holy shit it’s draining

Username: laurlpn

Date posted: 5y ago

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.

Username: lakme14

Date posted: 3y ago

few weeks ago i developed this fear going crazy and i was having hypogogc hallucinations then i talked to a doctor and she explained me and i was doing so good but again now im anxious for some reason and i feel like im hearing voices. maybe they’re outside sounds but i get scared and keep overthinking if i actually heard it or nope. does anyone have a smillar experience and can u tell me how did u cope with it bc im so anxious rn :(

Username: hannie

Date posted: 2y ago

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?

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