Fear of losing touch with reality

One of my main fears is thinking that I’m losing my mind or losing touch with reality. It sometimes make me feel so fearful , especially in the morning when I’m first waking up. But yesterday I kind of freaked myself out because I developed a new fear that I would look at someone’s face and not recognize them. So like always I went online and researched and found out some people suffer from not recognizing people’s faces , even if it’s someone they know. Now I’ve been sitting here for hours with my mind telling me what if this is happening to me? In my mind I know I’m not but my mind keeps telling me maybe you are. What if you’re out in public and you just freak out. It’s so irrational but it feels so scary. Has anyone ever had this feeling or fear. It almost makes me scared to look people in their faces. 😥

Username: xally03xally03

Date posted: 1y ago

Hi there! I’m not going thru exactly what you’re going through, but I’ve been scared that I’m losing my mind/touch with reality also. It could just be derealization! Our brain detaches from emotion to avoid feeling any intense trauma or feelings. You’re not alone

Username: AnonymousAnonymous

Date posted: 1y ago

@xally03 Thanks for the response. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only person going through this. I think it really just plays on the theme of being scared to lose my mind/ touch with reality. Can I ask do you ever fear that you might hallucinate or hear things? I guess that’s what I get for researching schizophrenia for hours. I’ve never hallucinated or heard things but it’s like my mind is scared I will. It feels so weird.

Username: xally03xally03

Date posted: 1y ago

@Anonymous Sometimes I fear that I hear things, but I know that that’s linked to intrusive thoughts/images which are linked to OCD and anxiety. But yes I do have that fear sometimes

Username: triciabcl2triciabcl2

Date posted: 1y ago

I understand this, especially in the morning when I'm tired and laying in bed and I keep dozing and start having weird dreams like as soon as the dozing starts and they are scary. That is when I know my OCD and anxiety is cropping back up. Then the fears of going insane come also. It also correlates with monthly hormonal fluctuations for me. But heck yes I have had fears like that one hundred percent.

Username: AnonymousAnonymous

Date posted: 1y ago

@triciabcl2 I have that same thing in the morning. Like I’m walking up and kind of falling back asleep and dozing off and I’ll have like half asleep half awake dreams. They were scaring me when I first had them. But I guess I finally told myself that’s normal thing. I thinking my fear of looking at peoples face just started last night as a theme inside of my fear of losing my mind theme.

Username: AnonymousAnonymous

Date posted: 1y ago

I have this too. Im unable to treat my ocd a lot bc of bullying and harassment and toxic environments and it gets really dark and upsetting and disturbing and I get blamed a lot but I know me and I know my ocd and my own experiences and I know it’s just stigma and ignorance and their lack of comparison to anything like this and it’s really difficult and scary and… my thoughts get so desensitized and scary and out of control and even my life gets out of control and sometimes I worry if I’ll lose my sanity or my sparkly personality and shit and it’s really scary. Im sorry you’re going through that.

Username: AnonymousAnonymous

Date posted: 1y ago

@Anonymous I’m so sorry that you’re going through it. I wouldn’t wish this weird condition on my worst enemy. I can feel completely normal one day then the next I’ll be in full anxiety and ocd kicking my butt. Sometimes I wonder if I should try to go back to work or just stay to myself for a bit and work on myself. I hope you are able to manage your condition when it feels like it’s getting out of hand.

Username: JBird88

Date posted: 5y ago

Random: One of my deepest fears is losing myself ( personality and sense of sanity ) i realize that’s what triggers my harm ocd. That any moment I’m a little depressed or out of it I’m afraid my sense of self is slipping away... can anyone relate to this??

Harm OCD

Username: Anonym1l

Date posted: 3y ago

I have a terrible fear of going crazy. This is a new obsession for me and this time i feel like i really can't deal with it. It feels like i am really crazy. Like i'm alone in the world, like i start to lose my memory. I fear that i will do something bad and won't remember anymore and things like that. At the same time, i feel guilt, shame, i fear that i'm prettending, that i'm just dramatic. It's unbearable, i don't know what i did to deserve this.

Username: Stay strong 🙌🏻💪🏻

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 2y ago

Does anyone ever fear losing their mind or going crazy??? Cause that what cause majority of my panic. Ughhhh 😮‍💨

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