Worried about getting 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!

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!