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- 5y
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- 5y
Hi Eden! I would like to interject here, I know I am very much real. I believe you are real. I used to struggle with solipsism OCD too, it won’t get you anywhere. Stop googling, stop looking for answers, it’s irrefutable but that DOES NOT make it true. Almost every philosopher dismisses the idea because it just doesn’t make sense. Humans are built to be social creatures. Just because you cannot prove something wrong does not make it true. If I was a solipsist, how could you be? And vice versa. There cannot be two solipsists. There’s an entire community of people who believe in this false and no offense, stupid, idea. I am real, you are real. We have OCD, anxiety, and intense fear of loneliness. You will be okay, this theme will pass as it has with me. It’s really not worth all the mental energy you’re putting into it. I hope you feel better soon.
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- 5y
Thank you for that. I guess I just wonder if other people who CLAIM to be solipsist are just lying. Well not LYING, but they’re just apart of this simulation and they’re fake so blah blah blah. Idk. But I appreciate you taking the time to write all that! I hope I feel better soon too :(
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- 1y
@garden this is currently what i’m struggling with and idk if you will see this because this was forever ago but, have you recovered? what helped you?
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- 5y
Psychosis is real. It’s a legitimate disorder. Having said that, the delusions and hallucinations produced aren’t. But, to a person with it? They are. Do you have access to healthcare?
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- 5y
Do not check on the internet. I have done it many many times, and thought I had terrible diseases like MS, cancer, and disorders like schizophrenia and also Psychosis. Internet is a very dangerous thing, bc you're making yourself upset. If you really have hallucinations and other stuff go seek help, but do not self diagnose yourself. Hope this will help you to feel a bit calmer..
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- 5y
At the root of this is the fact that I don’t believe anything is real. My solipsism ocd has been bad. But I don’t even believe ocd is real, I think of it as something that’s been made up to excuse the fact that I’m ‘cracking the system’ or whatever. I literally sound crazy. It’s all intrusive. My point is, I don’t know what is and isn’t legitimate. I guess deep down I do. Or deep down I know what I HOPE is real. But accepting the uncertainty is so so so so hard. So when it comes to this, or ocd, or anxiety is general, my brain just says none if that is real. The ‘simulation’ made it up for me. Ahhhh I don’t even know anymore.
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- 5y
Once again, do you have access to help? Because if this has been going on for a while and been debilitating you, you should get help.
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- 5y
I’m trying. I live in the UK so it can take a while for free access under the NHS. Sometimes I wonder if help is just another way to stop me finding stuff out. I know this is all just absurd and dumb and illogical. But I can’t really convince my brain otherwise.
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- 21w
I don't know what to do anymore, the fear of psychosis and schizophrenia is so bad in so hyper aware of everything I hear and everything I see, I've always had eye floaters now I convince myself that it's really me hallucinating, I've always had tinnitus but now I'm convinced it means I'm going to go crazy soon, I can't sit in quiet because all I'm focusing on is what I'm hearing, and searching for any sounds I can't distinguish, when there's background noise I get so anxious if I think I heard something but im not sure I did or I'm just anxious, I'm terrified I'll start having delusions and sometimes my brain confuses some sounds for other sounds for example say I'm hyper focused and I breathe and my nose makes a whistling sound my mind interprets it as a scream and I freak out thinking I'm hallucinating only to focus closer and realize it's my own breathing, earlier I was so anxious that I couldnt tell if I had an intrusive thought or heard something, I don't know how to make it stop, I've been through this theme before I just forgot how hard it was I'm having a panic attack please help
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- 21w
Since I read that it's symptoms of schizophrenia voices in head who order to do bad things Usually I can deal with it but when I'm highly stressed I start to panic and idk if I believe voices and then I imagine living with it 24/7 it's horrible Im like it's unblerable part to feel pot in my stomach .. Am I in psychosis guys My psy is on vacation help ..I feel hopeless 🥺 Every time I read an symptoms on internet my mind manifest it but it's been a while my mind imitate voices because it's what scare me the most 🥺🥺🥺 A side note : I can attest that before reading symptoms it never even happened to me in my whole life
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- 15w
Hi everyone, I haven’t posted in a while—about 6 months—but I’m really struggling and need some help or advice. I thought I had healed from all of this, or at least I was doing so much better. I have never felt this before but it feels like I’m slipping back into something I can’t control. Right now, it feels like I’m stuck in a bad reality. It’s like I’m trapped with my dad in one reality, and I’m trying to get back to the other where I’m with my family, but I can’t. It’s so hard to explain, but everything around me feels unreal, and my mind keeps telling me I’m stuck. It feels so real, and I don’t know how to get out of it. It’s like I’ve been transported to another world, and I can’t break free. nd now I’m scared I’ll never come back to the “good” reality I had before. and I genuinely believe this. I’ve been struggling with these thoughts about spiritual realms, the devil, and spiritual warfare. My dad has always talked about these things, and he’s gone through psychosis before. He’s also had a history of doing a lot of drugs, and now I’m terrified that I might end up like him. I fear that I’m somehow becoming like him, trapped in that same mental space he’s been in. He talks about spiritual stuff that scares me, and I can’t shake the thought that I might be losing myself the same way he did. I know this might sound weird, but I feel like I’m getting closer to that line, and I don’t know how to stop it. I keep feeling like I’ll never come back to the way things were, like I’ll always be stuck in this distorted reality. I’m afraid of losing myself, especially in my faith. I believe in God, but my thoughts and fears about all of this are making it hard to feel connected to Him. I feel so distant from God right now, and it’s hard to see how this can change. Has anyone else experienced something like this—feeling like you’re trapped between realities, afraid of becoming someone you don’t want to be, or struggling with fears like this? How did you cope? I just need some hope that I can get through this and come back to a better place. I’m scared, and I feel like I can’t escape this. Any advice would really mean a lot right now.
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