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I don’t know if I’m going insane or this is all existential ocd. Or depression, but pretty much my fear centers around existence and insanity. I can’t shake the thought that I’m living in some far off dream or different dimension and it terrifies me. Like gives me the worst panic attacks ever. My brain does everything to make me believe it. I get a feeling of unreality too. I’ll be hanging out with friends and get this feeling and I start freaking out I’m on the verge of insanity. I’m scared I’m going to snap and lose control and I panic so hard. The thought is so scary. Is it a delusion or intrusive thought? I so badly want this to be a physical problem. I took a b12 deficiency test and read it can cause this. I’m really hoping that it’s all physical because I can’t handle this mentally. The panic is so hard
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I just want to see my life as a 40 year old and see everything being okay. Successful, married, loving, and happy
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You are definitely not having a seizure. You would know. Tingling is a normal side effect of a panic attack. It sounds like this is anxiety... can you calm or distract yourself? If a B12 pill would make you feel better, start taking one a day. And if they’re close friends, tell them your worry and ask them to keep you distracted. Sounds like you’re just spiraling, you’ll get through this though, promise.
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I just want my old life back. I live in constant fear and depression. My parents have never been around mental illness so they only think you need to work on succeeding in life and be somebody and that will cure you. I know it’s partially true, but every time I try to my thoughts get in the way. Then I have one that’s so bad that I think I’m losing it and I panic. The most recent one which was the worst of them is that I’m really in a dream within a dream and I’m so far from reality and don’t realize it (sorta like inception) The thought came out of no where and absolutely terrified me. It gave me one of the worst panic attacks I’ve ever had. It literally felt like I was fainting. I’ve been diagnosed panic disorder and ocd. It usually centered around schiz ocd, but now it’s existential. I think existential because of my fear of going crazy. My brain pretty much goes “okay, let’s see how deep of a thought I can come up with to terrify you and push you over the limit.” It scares me because I think this has gotta be how people lose their minds. And it literally sucks. I used to be a deep thinker, but it never scared me. I hate this fucking illness. If I can make it into an entity I’d beat the living shit out of it for ruining so many good years of my life
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Hey! I’m dealing with the same thing and I 100% get it. That obsession gives me the worst panic reactions: shaking, wanting to vomit, feeling dizzy, feeling like I’m losing my mind... yesterday I did for the first time what I never thought I could do: I did a huge ERP session about it (I’ve been avoiding it for years) and I really thought I was gonna collapse / die / enter another dimension of reality, believe me, but my boyfriend guided me through the ERP, making sure I was focusing on all of those thoughts that I fear without engaging in compulsions (reassurance, avoidance, checking my phone, which relaxes me...). After two excruciating hours, more or less, the anxiety subsided and I went from a 9/10 in anxiety to a 3/10. So it definitely works!!! Give it a try. It’s so hard and so tiring, but it’s the only way out of this. We can overcome this together!
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What’s wrong
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Right now my whole body is tingling even my head. I feel I’m having a seizure
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What was your erp?
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How are you now? I’m going through something similar
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I’m having a very bad evening with my intrusive thoughts. I was doing really good dealing with them but tonight one hit me hard. I’ve been having a lot of different intrusive thoughts but I’ll have one occasionally about hurting my mom or my dog who I love and they’re the only family I have in my life. They’re my world. I was helping my mom put away the dishes and I had the big kitchen knife in my hand and my intrusive thought was you could stab your mom. And then my brain said I had a twitch in my hand and that meant I wanted to do it. Let me just say that I wouldn’t hurt a fly. I actually caught a fly in a glass and put it outside instead of killing it this evening before this intrusive thought happened. I’m such a gentle and compassionate and caring person and these thoughts instantly cause me to have a panic attack. And I have no one to talk to them about. I know they’re hard for my mom to hear and I don’t want to be any more of a burden than I already am. I do desperately want to tell her and have her reassure me that I’m not crazy or a psycho. Then my thoughts wander to if your hand did flinch could you be a psychopath. Is hurting someone in you. I know it’s not but I feel like my mind is out to get me and hurt me. I’m working so hard and I thought I was doing so good but I need to know why I have these thoughts. They’re not ok. I need someone to help me make sense of why. I know we aren’t supposed to ruminate but I shouldn’t have thoughts like this about people I love and care about the most in the world.
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This might contain triggering content, but I'm also wondering if others have dealt with this similar thought, and if so, how to deal with it? Overall, I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm able to eat again, which I hadn't been able to do because of how much anxiety I'd been experiencing. I'm spending time around loved ones and not just rotting in my room, and I've been able to wake up without immediately being bombarded by intrusive thoughts. When things first got really bad, I'd wake my mom up every night for reassurance, but I haven't done that in a while either. I'm really proud of myself, but there's still this nagging thought in my mind... While looking through others posts on here, hoping to find advice that'd fit my situation, I ended up making things worse. Someone mentioned how they had a fear that they'd purposely search for illegal content (related to POCD). I panicked, and "what ifs" flooded my thoughts. "What if the intrusive thoughts affect who I am as a person, and I do that?" I'm terrified that I'll search for those things, which I know means I wouldn't do it. But then, another person on here said they'd actually looked for those things, and that freaked me out even more. Does that mean it's possible for that to happen to me? I don't want to do that, but I keep having intrusive thoughts surrounding it. I've been doing so well these past few days. I'm just... stuck. I don't know what to do. I've spoken with other people who have the same fears, but how do I manage this? It's not something I've even thought about before seeing those posts. I've been practicing accepting the uncertainty, but I'm really struggling with this one. I hate this. This morning, I woke up, and the intrusive thoughts were back. It's just disheartening.
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Hey guys, I am having the worst HARM OCD episode I have had in a while. I am having disgusting, awful intrusive thoughts about harming others. It feels so real. It feels as if I am about to get up and just do it. The worst bit about it all Is I know I feel distressed and panicked. But where the thoughts are actually happening ( in my head) doesnt feel this feeling. This is making it feel worse as it really does feel like Im just going to do it. I am crying my eyes out because I know im petrified and dont want to hurt anyone im so scared. I have this terrible intrusive feeling in my that feels like its justifying the thoughts. Please can someone talk as I am scared Im crying I dont want know what to do I want this feeling gone I am so scared. I tell myself Id kill myself before hurting anyone else, but would i ? What if I actually do want to kill Please respond Im so scared
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