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

Health Concern OCD

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: e.ileenm

Date posted: 2y ago

Schizophrenia OCD or fear of going crazy

Anybody struggle with thinking you have schizophrenia or are slowly developing it? Mine just kinda popped up out of the blue today. Idk why I have a sudden feeling that I might hear or see something that nobody else will hear or see. I just feel like I’m stuck in my own head and I might act out of impulse. It’s making me feel anxious, uncomfortable, and worried that something might be wrong with me. I even feel like covering my ears so I can calm myself down with some piece and quiet. Please tell me someone else knows what I’m talking about

Username: Anonymous

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 1y ago

Fear of Hearing Voices

When I first started to deal with Schiz-OCD it has always been fear about internal voices. I’ve become overly obsessed with the process of my inner dialogue. This has always been the main fear regarding Schiz-OCD. Questioning my inner monologue, command thoughts/voices, mocking thoughts/voices, voice commenting on what your doing. Anything you can think of. It’s more like I’m thinking the voices if that makes sense. It’s more of a thought/voice but I feel that I have habituated it to the point that it’s automatic and I have lost control of this inner speech. I can create how it sounds, what it says and the tone of it based on my imagination. But I feel that it is getting to the point of real schizophrenia. I’ve been checking in with multiple psychiatrists and professionals who don’t think I have schizophrenia at all. I don’t have any delusions,external hallucinations, disorganized thinking or speech. It’s only the inner voice/thought things and I’m not sure what to do. Is this Pure O or Schizophrenia ? Very confused on what this could mean for my future. Feels as if I’m developing my biggest fear and that it’s not OCD anymore.

Username: mrselfdestru...

Date posted: 1y ago

Fear of delusions/ SchizOCD

Disclaimer, I am diagnosed with OCD, GAD, PTSD, ADHD, Panic Disorder and hypochondria. I’ve been in the midst of what I hope and pray is just an extremely debilitating health ocd theme for about 4 months now, where I’ve basically convinced myself I am in the midst of psychosis or developing schizophrenia or a related disorder. I obsess over it day and night to the point where I can’t even function hardly. Constantly researching symptoms and seeking reassurance. Ive been having this weird symptom where my ear canal will randomly feel this pressure/ticklish sensation and I start to become hyperaware of the hole in my ear, and I get this weird tense feeling almost like I’m expecting someone to stick their finger in my ear or expecting something to go inside of it, this weird sensation almost makes me want to cover my ear but I never do. But when I get this weird ear feeling I get absolutely ridiculous crazy thoughts like “what if a demon is trying to get inside your ear” and I’m like WTF why would I even think of that, I don’t even believe in demons or religious stuff like that to begin with. I recognize that the thought is nonsense and FAR out of the realm of reality and makes zero sense.The fact that I would even have a thought like that to begin with scares the f**k out of me! I have never ever had thoughts like this before. YET now whenever I get that weird sensation in my ear I still get intense anxiety, why? Why do I still get such crippling fear from this ear sensation even if I don’t believe the thoughts? Why would my brain even come up with a thought like that in the first place? I’m so terrified of schizophrenia and psychosis, I don’t want to lose my mind ): I have a wife and so many dreams. I’m so scared of losing it. Has someone ever experienced anything remotely similar to this? I know this is very far fetched.

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