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Psychosis
Had anybody ever suffered a psychosis episode?
Had anybody ever suffered a psychosis episode?
Its probably not psychosis by definition like schizophrenia or mania where you are having delusional thinking or hearing things, etc. Its likely severe depression or severe anxiety/panic. Ocd can absolutely cause that. Its just becoming more understood nowadays.
I've had psychosis due to a Xanax and fentanyl episode. I had a seizure at 1st then then days after I suffered a psychosis episode I was having hallucinations and delusional and ended up being dragged by a moving vehicle and was hospitalized. Both for the seizure and after psychosis. After this I started having groinals to men , and I started to think I was gay . Then I was diagnosed with ocd. I think I have hocd but I'm not sure
Due to a Xanax and fentanyl withdrawal
@Anonymous I took paxil for years and when i went off of it my libido went through the roof lol. Especially with all the shit out there on the internet. So dont let the fact that you have a strong libido make you think youre gay. Its just your hormones rockin. Im sure you love women more.
Does this have anything to do with being gay !
@Anonymous Sexual orientation ocd is usually a case of a heterosexual person reacting to some type of sexual stimuli leading them to believe they might be gay. Bottom line is that when someone is overwhelmingly concerned or obsessed that they are gay it is most likely they are not. Just tell yourself that you have OCD and its going to tell you things that are untrue.
Yep. It’s terrifying.
Thanks for your feedback . Did u think u were gay after it happened ?
@Anonymous No. I just absolutely dissociated and nothing felt real. Thankfully, I was able to take a benzodiazepine and fall asleep.
Many times.
What is that?
You'll have to look it up it's a lot to explain
Oh well after mine. I had gay feelings
I think I am developing symptoms of psychosis due to my OCD being way worse than usual lately. I constantly think everyone is out to get me or “catch me doing something wrong” even though I’m not doing anything wrong.
No gay feelings ?
@Anonymous No. I don’t think feeling gay relates to psychosis. You might just be deeply anxious about being gay
@CoolestCrocodilian U don't think I could have hocd ?
@Anonymous You could, but idk you. I know having OCD can’t make you gay. I just don’t believe that’s how sexuality works. With what you have described so far, I don’t believe you experienced psychosis (at least not what is typically described when talking about it), but perhaps severe paranoia and panic about having gay thoughts, perhaps even intrusive gay thoughts, but not likely to be psychosis as a whole..
@CoolestCrocodilian I've had psychosis episode before the groinals . Or at least when I noticed them , I was walking down the street in the freezing cold with no shoes I was having thoughts that people were escaping Earth and I had to save the world with the vibration of music
@Anonymous I think you misspoke in your reply because some of that doesn’t make grammatical sense and I’m most likely reading it wrong, but anyway, unless you were having delusions of being gay, doing something sexual with someone of the same sex, or anything remotely related to being gay, then your issues with psychosis is related to your anxiety about being gay. You most likely are experiencing HOCD if you are obsessively worrying about being perceived as gay, or accidentally doing something that could make you seem gay, but psychosis and OCD aren’t the same. OCD can sometimes develop further into symptoms of psychosis, like extreme paranoia and delusions, but that’s when things get extreme
@Anonymous I read that a groinal response to intrusive thoughts is something your body cannot help most times. You will react accordingly to situations where your body is “stimulated”, but this doesn’t mean you enjoyed it, or want more of it. It is just a natural reaction your body gives. Like pulling your hand from a hot stove or reacting to seeing something gross by cringing. This does seem like a sign of HOCD in a way
Kinda like if youve watched the show hoarders and seen some cases so bad you would think theyre psychotic. Theyre likely not psychotic, but suffering very severe compulsive hoarding.
Does this have to do with anything about me feeling gay
I’ve never been diagnosed with OCD, but I relate so much to what people here are going through. I used to think it was just anxiety, and I felt like I could handle that. But lately I’ve been spiraling—constantly afraid that what I’m feeling is something worse, like psychosis or losing control of my mind. I feel so detached and scared, and I just want peace again. I have anxiety doing the smallest things, like the thought of waking up everyday and even eating give me straight up panic. I am afraid all the time, it’s paralyzing. And a lot of people say someone with psychosis wouldn’t worry that they’re in it, but then I convince myself I’ve been in it this whole time, and haven’t known, and that maybe I’ve been doing weird stuff. Idk. I also get really scared of labels. Even the idea of OCD makes me feel like I’ll never get better or like I’ll be stuck like this forever. I just want to be okay. If anyone has felt this way—confused, overwhelmed, or scared of what’s happening in their mind—I’d really appreciate any support or encouragement.
My OCD diagnosis is still very new, but now that I know what it is, it is clearly something I’ve had for as long as I can remember. Contamination/bugs and health have been a consistent theme since childhood, but religious/existential themes emerged during adolescence. Around that same time, there was also a good deal of trauma, and during middle school I started experiencing hallucinations. Tactile (like bugs crawling on me or biting me, an eyelash being stuck in my eye, but nothing was really there); visual (like moving shadows or things that would dart past in my periphery, and then I would just have intrusive thoughts of scary things around corners or under things); and auditory (an angry male voice that grumbles or yells indistinctly, or a high pitched noise like a microphone/speaker feedback but muffled and less sharp). Because of the religious denomination I grew up in, I initially assumed these were demons and tried to address it that way, but when I was 14 or 15, it occurred to me that those voices/sounds sounded like the way I felt, and the visual/tactile experiences happened during times of stress too — and so all of those experiences could just be seen as an expression of a fragmented part of myself. That acceptance didn’t make them go away — I still experience them now and I’m in my 30s — but it made those experiences less scary and more manageable. I also see now how these all pop up specifically when OCD obsessions are super triggered and when I’m super sleep deprived. Anyway! Since this diagnosis, and talking about the hallucinations at all, are new to me, I am wondering who else has had similar experiences. I don’t really know how much of the hallucination experience is OCD versus trauma, but it seems like this might all make sense under the “quasi-hallucination” label.
Has anyone that’s had a severe episode just felt better like without meds or anything. I’m currently in a 3 month episode and just want to know I will get a break soon. I’m really scared of medication but I think that’s my only choice now
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