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- 5y ago
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- 5y ago
I definitely know what this is like. I have the same Kind of OCD. Mine isn’t much on seeing things but more over analyzing my thoughts to make sure I’m not having a paranoid thought. It’s really strange how much this disorder can trick you. Stay strong and remember that if you actually did have schizophrenia, chances are you wouldn’t care or be worried about it. You would just experience it like it was a normal thing. People around you would notice probably before you did. Stay strong??
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- 5y ago
oh my god i relate!! i too have visual disturbances sometimes (my eyesight is also extremely bad) and constant anxiety also makes me hyperfocused on sounds (sometimes i cant tell if the sound i heard came from right beside me or miles away, because it changes when im anxious). a big part of ocd is about being unable to trust your own judgement, identity, true colors etc. but the thumb rule with schizophrenia is that a schizophrenic doesnt question or doubt the nature of their hallucinations or their paranoia. obviously this fact is twosided, because i know this can mean you could go on to worry if things you actually believe then ARENT real, but yeah. i love psychology and ive tried understanding schizophrenia, but all i know is that its probably hereditary, and if no one in your immediate family has it, then theres no cause for concern
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- 5y ago
I do actually experience visual disturbances from time to time. I get migraines with aura which causes me to see colors and spots and sometimes loose my vision completely for short periods of time. They used to really scare me but now when they’re there I kinda just say to myself “hello purple dot. Guess you ‘ll be around today.”
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- 5y ago
Yeah I had a illness where some of my eye nerves were eaten off so now that causes me to see certain things out of place, see double, or to see lights.
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- 5y ago
Thats relieved me
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- 15w ago
My last and almost life long theme/sub-theme largely subsided recently and my ocd felt like it wasn’t even an issue. Then I went on winter break from uni and being alone made my mind come up with a whole new topic to obsess over. TLDR on my fears, my advisor wouldn’t email me back for a while about signing up for classes so my mind started to worry “what if he doesn’t in time and you can’t enroll this semester and you lose this whole life you just built and all these new friends” So when that issue was resolved my mind found other scarier ways I could be uprooted from my current life and friends that I’ve grown so attached to. Then my mind remembered back when I was struggling with false memories and scrupulosity and I essentially made a post on a forum 2 and a half years ago saying I did something or was convinced I did something that I never actually did. Now I’ve been spiraling about someone finding it reporting me and I either get seen as a horrible person or arrested or something over something I never actually did but “admitted” to out of fear of going to hell. My mind won’t let it go and keeps finding new reasons for it to be “valid” “logical” or even inevitable. I feel like it’s just hanging over my head and I can never rest easy. Especially when I try to focus on my daily tasks or plan for the future I get this horrible flair up of “why plan for the future when this could come back in that future and you get uprooted from all of it” my mind won’t rest without certainty being uprooted won’t happen but certainty doesn’t exist, at least not with ocd. This sucks and I miss being care free.
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- 12w ago
so i was on instagram and it came up with other signs of ocd then someone commented this doesn’t mean you have ocd now im stressed that its not ocd background - i had so-ocd for a few years then got treatment for it but am now on the waiting list for further treatment for other stuff but i dont have another theme which makes me feel like its not ocd my day to day life consists of touching the door handle every time you go past it or someone will die, and inability to send emails without re reading loads of times and getting other people to check because im scared i wrote something bad but the what if it’s not ocd thought is triggering me now and i don’t know what do
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- 11w ago
I have pure ocd i think , i always gotta make sure i do certain things like tap things , light switches on n off , shut things few times and re open them till it feels right . Walk in a room go back out and back in out in in till my mind is right Its exhausting
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