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It falls in the category of ... no action you can take will make a difference as to whether or not you get schizophrenia ... So, I try to let go and not argue with the thoughts ... when I deal with it, I try to refrain from googling information about schizophrenia... that’s my big compulsion ... It feeds the obsessions ... I also try to make room for the thoughts while I live my life, even though they cause me pain ... You could do some planned exposures to it too, using this app or under the guidance of a therapist, if you can see one.
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It like distorts everything
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- 7y
Oh! Well if you ever decide to try meditation, I use an app called Headspace. It helps teach me to let the thoughts pass.
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It’s such an awful obsession. I’ve been dealing with it for so long. Avoid looking up anything about it. Your ocd mind will just imitate everything you read about. I’m getting better, but it’s a slow process. You just need to force yourself to get into other stuff. Mine was so bad that I looked back into my childhood and questioned why I did anything the way I did and was it all a sign that I was insane. Mine always follows from schiz ocd to existential ocd. Pretty much anything centering around me losing my mind. It’s such a big fear of mine, but it will get better and we will beat this.
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- 7y
Also, if it makes you feel better, my OCD therapist said he has never met anyone with OCD who did not, at some point, worry that they were insane!
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- 7y
Isn’t the schizo one pretty common as a theme?! Also I don’t think it’s a actually possible into worrying yourself into it haha. Thank you @wiseblood
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Super common as a theme. You got this!
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- 7y
True. It distorts everything. And is really frustrating. Have you tried meditation? That also helps me.
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- 7y
Well I just started an adhd medication today so my senses are quite hightened.. hahah so that’s fun ??♀️
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- 7y
I will download that! Thanks!
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- 21w
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!
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- 9w
hi so my therapist & i were talking about how scared i am of schizophrenia being a misdiagnosis, i'm not diagnosed with OCD even though i suffer from all of the symptoms more than anything else right now but she took as an example people that could kill me; when something was on the news a few months back i got EXTREME paranoia fearing that i could be killed next, my therapist said it was a delusion **but** deep down i know they can't actually get me but i'm just afraid if i speak up about it that they will get me. for example if i always say "nothings bad gonna happen" something bad is gonna happen. i don't really know deep down but i also do i'm just so lost like ???? i also always keep obsessing over it, but i also heard feeling watched & scared people are gonna do something is OCD, i'm just confused. is it still a delusion? or am i misdiagnosed? i've had psychosis multiple times but it was never negative or bad i think except losing friends i'm tired & drained. i'm sorry for constantly mentioning it but **i'm not scared of schizophrenia i'm just scared that i have a misdiagnosis** i put a TW for sure incase it triggers people with schizo OCD ! !
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