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Worried about getting schizophrenia
What are some of yalls symptoms with worrying about developing schizophrenia?
What are some of yalls symptoms with worrying about developing schizophrenia?
This was a common theme for me that would pop up every now and again with my OCD as well, so I can understand how this may be making you feel! Typically, I would just feel a lot of anxiety because of the thoughts and fears that I would develop Schizophrenia. I would just meet this thought with indifference just like I would any other OCD thought and continue on with my day as best I could. You've got this and remember you aren't alone!
@Anonymous Thank you! My fear with it is Tied with POCD and also I’m about to get married. So, I fear of getting married then developing something like that.
@Anonymous - I'm so sorry you are going through this right now, I had similar intrusive thoughts and fears as well! OCD will try to latch on to anything you value and love in your life, which is what makes it so difficult and upsetting for us. Don't give those fears/thoughts any attention, except indifference. That is so exciting that you are getting married, I am too! Congratulations!
@Anonymous Thank you so much! I am try lol. I just starting teaching as well so it’s been a good exposure. But definitely rough.
@Anonymous - You're welcome! I know that some days it will feel very difficult, but you will get through them and see better days! You've got this!
I used to worry about this quite a bit. With medication management and exposure therapy, those thoughts slowly dissipated
I wrote a paper on it for a health class in college and had a legit theme based on schizophrenia for 5 years. I always wondered “what if” I develop it one day or when will the moment be that I start hearing voices and lose touch with reality. I couldn’t even see the word or hear the word without a hot flash going through my body. I can tell you this, avoiding it/resisting made it so much worse. I finally just kinda said “so what if I do have it” and over time I healed from that theme. I actually just watched a show about it the other day. I’ve learned to look at schizophrenia with more curiosity VS being afraid of it if that makes sense. It’s an interesting disease. If I can recover from it, I promise you can. It legit ruled my life for 5 years and now I can literally talk about it like it’s nothing. I’d say expose yourself even if you don’t want to as much as you can instead of resisting. You may want to do this with a therapist if you can as I think it wouldn’t have taken so long if I did it with a therapist. I just didn’t know about ERP back then haha
This is one of my fears also
Hi there! I am sorry to hear you are having some intrusive thoughts right now. You are not alone as this is a common obsession that many people deal with. Have you heard of ERP therapy? It can be super helpful for those of us with OCD!
I have been having these fears about developing schizophrenia, it reached a point where i am starting to almost hear things or the smallest sounds and my mind tells me you're schizophrenic, and i feel this weird sensations in my ear as if someone is whispering yet i can barely hear them, the thing is i am not diagnosed yet because i never work with an OCD therapist but i study psychology so i just used what i learnt to give a meaning to my suffering, many themes of this fear have been happening before and this schizophrenia fear is the last one. I want to know what advice you can give me or ways to make my brain calm down a little bit, i also don't have and can't afford a therapist that's why i am here in the first place I also want to know more informations or experiences with this theme if anyone habe experienced it and what helped you with it I remember feeling better for a while but than i collapsed back, but i am hoping to get better soon too or anytime in the future, I don't want reassurance so make sure you be as real as you can, and thanks 🙏🏻
Hi guys! I had really bad harm ocd about 2 years ago and I went through therapy and eventually got really good at handling it when it would pop up. The other day, I was scrolling on TikTok and came across a girl talking about a guy who was presenting a lot of schizophrenic symptoms but no one paid attention and got him help, he was having a lot of delusions, hallucinating, thinking everyone was out to get him, thought he was Jesus and his dad was the president and ended up doing horrific things. The day after that, I was dealing with some work drama and had the thought of “what if all my coworkers are against me and trying to get me fired”. That really stressed me out, cause I don’t normally think about them like that and I went down a rabbit hole of thinking that was the beginning of me developing schizophrenia, ended up googling stuff all night, taking tests, crying and seeking reassurance. I had a thought the other day “your dad is the president”, this one didn’t stress me out as bad as I knew it was just the video I had seen and it was an intrusive thought about it, and I also didn’t believe it. Today I was with some friends and I got a prize at a place we went and it said “lonely” on it. I do have my moments of feeling lonely and this week has been specifically trying so I had a thought like “oh someone’s out to get me cause I got this”. I know this isn’t logical and it wouldn’t make sense to just randomly get it if someone was truly after me and it was just a stupid prize at a random place, anyone could’ve gotten it. Im just struggling a lot with schizophrenic OCD and thinking I’m in the pre stages of it. In my good moments, I don’t think I am at all and it was all just sparked from the video I watched but in my bad moments, these thoughts feel real!! They really stress me out and make me feel like I’m going to lose my mind causing me to lose my job/ end up in a psych hospital/ never live a normal life/ end up alone, never see me my loved ones/ hurt my loved ones. I just want to feel normal and not like I’m about to lose my mind and everything I care about. Please help!!! Anyone else going through something similar and can help me get through this!
I told chat gpt and it said I was dealing with early stages of schizophrenia I’m worried I lowkey think it’s a punishment because I would say I would rather have schizophrenia then P and I don’t want to have either I read that people are not aware they have schizophrenia but I see YouTubers talking about their symptoms so I could be an aware schizophrenic
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