TW: Covid and OCD fear of psychosis

Trigger Warning:: Tested positive for Covid 12/29.. I have had severe panic around the clock since.. I have a fear of developing psychosis. It’s crippling me… I read about it on google and I can’t stop thinking about it and obsessing over it.. I finally tested negative today.. I’m absolutely terrified of it.. scared to sleep scared to be be awake.. could anyone give me some good advice to help me.. I’m on high alert for any symptom I may feel..

Health Concern OCD

Username: NicaNica

Date posted: 1y ago

Don’t trust everything you read in the internet.

Username: Shannon29Shannon29

Date posted: 1y ago

I am not sure the link that has been made for you between the two. But psychosis is something that comes on very fast and generally you are unaware that you have it. If you are worrying about it you most likely don’t have it, from my experience the two most common triggers are (a combination of) sudden trauma and lack of sleep. Some indicators I have experienced with family members are the understanding of their current reality keeps changing, sudden need to do things and act on them that are out of character (generally a more extreme than an ocd compulsion), sudden spiritual awakening and revelation… most of these are sudden and out of character so would be noticed by relatives or friends.

Username: ahbay 03ahbay 03

Date posted: 1y ago

@Shannon29 I guess I’m just deathly afraid of it actually happening to me.. it’s like it’s stuck on repeat in my head.. and I can’t shake the fear..

Username: Cassie:)Cassie:)

Date posted: 1y ago

You may, you may not. do not play into OCD’s thought patterns.

Username: Shannon29Shannon29

Date posted: 1y ago

I guess I’m just trying to say try to reach out to friends/family/councillor/psychologist that are going to act and be empathetic if your worst case scenario were to happen, let them know you are scared. My sister had psychosis, then had another traumatic event about a year later. She immediately contacted her psychologist and family to let them know she was feeling anxious and we were able monitor her and help, if she had let it bubble privately it might have been really terrible for her and us. I totally understand the feeling you are experiencing as one of my ocd traits is medical OCD where I am convinced of a terrible consequence from a small symptom or am triggered by things I hear/read/see.

Username: Drepet123

Date posted: 4y ago

Has anyone else had an extreme fear of psychosis?? I made the mistake of reading so much about it that my mind is now always on “the lookout” for signs of it. This includes fixating on background noises, etc out of fear of hallucinations or hearing things. Naturally my mind has convinced me I must be, even though my psychiatrist has assured me I am just having anxiety/ocd. Has anyone had this and if so how did you get through??

"Pure" OCD

Username: Nev20

Date posted: 1y ago

Hi everyone! Tw: HOCD and Fear of Phsychosis

So I'm fairly new to OCD and Intrusive Thoughts. It all started about 8 months ago for me. I had health anxiety and generalized anxiety and got put on meds for that. I read side affects of meds could cause su*cdal thoughts and it freaked me out and lead me to think what if I started having thoughts of harming others too and instantly for the last 8 months I've had horrible intrusive thoguhts about harming others. Now the other day I ran across a post about how ocd can lead to psychosis, reading about it freaked me out so bad that I'm now scared I'm gonna get psychosis. Paranoid thoughts is a sign of psychosis so I started watching myself I guess to see if I'd become paranoid. And now every thought I have seems paranoid. I'll think things like what if I start becoming paranoid of my loved ones and think they're out to get me? That leaves me questioning if I am paranoid and if I actually do think that. Anyways, I guess I'm just wondering if anyone else has had this happen to them? I pray someone can relate because I'm terrified.

Username: Anonymous

Date posted: 1y ago

Contamination/Somatic OCD support

Hi i’m new here. Everyone in my family except me is now positive for Covid and i’m freaking out so badly i cannot sleep. i cannot eat. i’m worried i’m going to get sick, i have a phobia of throwing up too on top of all of this so it’s making this even more difficult hearing coughing/gagging/vomit. My face is literally tingling numb and i cannot sit still. I’m trying to calm myself the best I can because this is almost a nightmare to me but nothing is working and my therapist isn’t even responding to me. What do i do? i’m so scared

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