Racing thoughts / fear of insanity

I’m wondering if anybody else deals with an intense inner dialogue. It seems like my thoughts overlap each other and sometimes don’t make sense. Whether it’s a song stuck in my head, a million thoughts at once or both. It seems to never stop, even my dreams are super vivid. More recently I’ve been noticing random words or sentences that somebody has said before that has no meaning to what I’m thinking about, it will just pop in my head for no reason. For example I’ll be in the shower and “hear” a sentence one of my friends said. It sounds like their voice but it’s just in my thoughts if that makes sense. My core fear is losing my mind, so this spirals and my ocd tries to convince me that I’m hearing voices. Can anyone relate? If so what are some things that you have found to be effective when it comes to staying present. I hate not being as involved in conversations or not giving my 100% attention to things happening around me

Username: KyleKyle

Date posted: 1y ago

I went through this! It's really scary and overwhelming. It made me feel very panicky all of the time. One of my biggest fears was losing my mind as well - so I was hyperaware and was looking for signs everywhere. It's exhausting! This is an article I love because it describes ways to respond to intrusive thoughts: https://www.sheppardpratt.org/news-views/story/how-to-respond-to-unwanted-obsessive-thoughts/. These are tools I use to help myself be present when OCD is trying to distract me! Have you ever done any therapy for OCD?

Username: rye00rye00

Date posted: 1y ago

@ Hi Kyle! Yes I’m currently in NOCD erp therapy and it’s going very well, some days are just harder than others and I’ve been working on managing flare ups

Username: KyleKyle

Date posted: 1y ago

@rye00 - I'm so glad to hear you're in therapy! I know how every day can be so different. My biggest advice is practice and consistency with exposures and techniques - it made the world's difference for me!

Username: Alaina629 Alaina629

Date posted: 1y ago

I do the same thing- particularly my dreams are very vivid when I’m under stress, whether it’s from my environment or the actual thought itself. I have a fixation that because of this, I’m going to lose my mind because these things make me feel like I don’t have control over my mind. Often I think that what if I have another disorder that could be a bigger problem.

Username: AnonymousAnonymous

User type: OCD Conqueror

Date posted: 1y ago

Yes!!! I constantly feel like my brain is overloading with thoughts, it’s exhausting. Any small thing can trigger a bunch of thoughts in my head.

Username: Blue_BambiBlue_Bambi

Date posted: 1y ago

Hey 👋 😌 I know I’m super late to this but I recently started experiencing this quite a lot especially when I’m under a lot of stress and tired and in the quiet or if there’s white noise around and the example you gave I relate to it so much and I even went on Reddit to see if someone else was experiencing this and someone made a post about it and most of the comments were “oh that’s not normal if it’s not your own voice you’re probably developing something” and it just made me feel more anxious :/ were you able to overcome this and what helped if you did ?

Username: Messa

Date posted: 3y ago

Does anyone relate? I have really bad schizo OCD.. and before I had a lot of other themes but because the schizo theme is current and taking over the other ones have kind of been pushed to the side and all I can focus on is becoming crazy.. Well these past couple of days have been bad and as soon as I wake up I have this like really uncomfortable feeling in my chest.. no matter how much sleep I get or if I wasn’t stressed before going to bed. Then another thing I guess since I don’t have thoughts about really anything else for the day (ex. What are my tasks today, I’m excited for this today, oh I’m hungry.. etc) my thoughts are kind of all over the place about my schizo ocd and then it’s to the point I have random conversations that don’t even make sense in my head or I hear family members voices in my head saying something but it’s like I know it’s all my mind doing it but it still confuses me why random thoughts I didn’t think pop up or why I’m hearing it in their voice but this only happens when I first wake up or if I’m falling asleep. Then once it happens my brain is like.. does this mean I’m going crazy and starting to hear voices.. idk it’s literally driving me crazy..

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Username: Anonymous

Date posted: 3y ago

Really thought about whether or not to post this but I’m really struggling and wondering if anyone has gone through the same thing/what helped them out of it. I have fears of psychosis/schiz/delusions and I started having intrusive thoughts that sound and feel delusional even though I know they’re not true, and I don’t actually believe them. I obsess over whether I think they’re true and if I’m actually delusional, then I start to feel really disconnected and dreamy (like derealization?) but then I get worried that I’m actually dissociating and/or losing my mind. I rly struggle w these thoughts as they make me so uncomfortable and make me feel like I am delusional. I will reread things I wrote, rethink things I have already said to make sure they’re coherent, argue w my thoughts, constantly check to make sure I know who I am, where I am, know who my family is, etc. to ensure I’m not losing my mind. My themes switch from this, to harm ocd and I’m just really having a hard time w the thoughts mixed w the disconnected feeling. It makes me want to stay in bed forever and cry because I don’t wanna feel this way anymore. Any advice would be so helpful.

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Username: Pasto

Date posted: 2y ago

Insanity ?

I have intrusive thoughts every single second. Even when I am in shower there is monologue in my head that I am lost and went crazy. I question my every decision. My thoughts are absolutely nonsensical like I am gonna put socks on me than I have thought if that is normal after that I get thought if I was putting same socks before. Its complete madness. I fear schizophrenia and thats my main obsession. Seems like whatever I do i can not get out of that circle because my mind comes with another nonsense second after. I fear I will be stucked like this forever and that I need to be institutionalised. I feel like i have to question my every thought or I will act insanely. I feel like i am daydreaming, out of reality, with no memory or power over my mind. Can anyone relate ? Did anyone overcome it ?

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