Has anyone overcame this theme? Or been thought this theme? I have a fear of schizo and now I’m just constantly scanning to see if I hear things. It’s so bad I constantly pay attention to every single noise and can hear everything now because of this theme. I’m constantly scanning and even my inner voice/ imagination has scared me because I think “what if this is schizo” I’m so scared of everything due to this theme
Most definitely! Still deal with this from time to time. I was really bad a year and a half ago. It's gotten better, it will for you too!
@Mick89 Hey, How did you overcome this?
@Lilly2442! I haven't totally overcome, its just gotten less frequent, but it just took time and I was doing talk therapy.
I too went through this, and it was hard. I saw myself questioning everything I saw, and heard. Even making sure that I wasn't hearing voices in my head. It did get better, as I just allowed those thoughts to come, and continued living my daily life to the point I stopped thinking about them. These thoughts still come, but they are not as strong/bad as they used to be. It will get better!
I have struggled with this and have heard it is very common. It is no different than any other theme. For me what helped was writing out a script about what if I go insane, reality, what if I was schizo, imagining worst case scenarios. Then sitting with the fear/anxiety while trying to resist the mental compulsions of neutralizing those fears, and trying to prove to myself and test myself if I was insane or not etc. It sounds to me like scanning to see if you can hear things is a compulsion. Perhaps you could start by cutting this one out. Easier said than done, and you can work up to more scary exposures. I am sorry you are struggling with this it is not fun but I promise you will get through it. Krissy Hodges has some good videos on this on youtube. Also, not to give too much reassurance, but if you ever find yourself ruminating about this just know that a lot of people that are truly schizophrenic don't even know it. The fact that you have insight means you are not psychotic.
@jstout Yes, I’m constantly scanning and making sure I’m not hearing things sometimes I don’t know if I’m hearing things that are in my head or in reality and it causes so much anxiety. Every noise I hear I get the whoosh of  anxiety. It’s so hard because I constantly think at any minute I’ll go insane and just start to see things or hear things. Ive had this theme for 11 months now and it’s the hardest one of all because it feels so real and messes with your five’s senses.
@Lilly2442! Riding home from my son's ball practice and I said hey, there's your Nana and papa and then I heard a whisper and said you wanna go see em? He was on my phone and I asked if he said something and he initially said no and then I said what I heard and he was like yeah I said that. Now it's got me super anxious bc I don't want him saying that just bc I said I heard it. Idk I'm feeling really crazy rn...
@Anonymous2015 Yeah I get the same way I get so anxious when I ask if someone hears the same thing I do and they say no. I literally have a panic attack or have high anxiety
@Anonymous2015 Do you struggle with this theme as well ?
@Lilly2442! Yes I do! It's gotten better from where I was with this a year ago, but it still creeps up or I get triggered very easily.
@Anonymous2015 I got triggered very easily also.  If you don’t mind me asking what helped you overcome it?
@Lilly2442! Getting out, engaging in the present moment, I world reach out to trusted friends & family when it would get really bad. Stopped researching schizophrenia or psychosis. And just over time, the thoughts would get a little less
Has anyone else had an extreme fear of psychosis?? I made the mistake of reading so much about it that my mind is now always on “the lookout” for signs of it. This includes fixating on background noises, etc out of fear of hallucinations or hearing things. Naturally my mind has convinced me I must be, even though my psychiatrist has assured me I am just having anxiety/ocd. Has anyone had this and if so how did you get through??
Fear of psychosis. I don’t want to trigger anyone, but I’m having a particularly hard time with this “theme”. I’ve been on a high state of anxiety for days now about developing psychosis or already having it. I went to my psychologist and she claims it’s ocd. Basically what is going on is that I’m having obsessions over hearing voices. I’m compulsively researching etc and I fear I’m making it worse. I have intrusive thoughts about “hearing” a voice say something if that makes sense. Like I don’t actually hear a voice but I have a thought about a voice. It’s pretty scary and idk how to do erp with it. Also, late at night I have severely racing thoughts lately. Does this sound like OCD or something else?
I’ve been diagnosed with ocd. I first started off with harm ocd.when I got over it, it started switching into new themes. Every week I’d have to deal with a new thought/fear. And now i feel like im stuck again! Im not sure what type of ocd im going through right now. But im scared of hallucinating. Im scared of hearing things that aren’t there. So that caused me to be hyper aware of every sound I hear. And I now focus on white noises so much ( like AC, fridge, water pipes, the tv when it’s far away etc.) and I start to question my sister: can you hear that ? Because I’m super scared the I’m hallucinating. But usually she’ll answer with yes she can hear it. But I’ve been struggling with something else too. I sleep with the AC on and I’ve been doing for years. But during the past month that caused me so much stress and anxiety. Because I feel like whenever the AC is on I hear other things (not people talk or words or specific things) just unclear sounds. And I’m not sure if that’s in my head or it’s actually there but because the AC sound loud I can’t recognize the other sounds im hearing. And I get so anxious when I try to sleep because everything is so quiet and it’s just me and the AC on. So I feel like everything is loud. And I don’t know if the unclear sounds are in my head or real. And yesterday when I tried to sleep a police car went by and the siren of it was loud too. I focused on the sound. And questioned if it’s real or not. Then I started hearing the siren non stop for 3 minutes probably. Even though I’m sure the police car went by. So I was scared and terrified that I was hallucinating. And now I’m just scared that what if I’m not hyper aware ocd. What if I’m schizophrenic. What if I’m going crazy. I’m so scared. And I’m worrying that this will happen again if I go to sleep tonight. Someone help me please and give me advice!
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