Anyone else feel like they are going to get schizophrenia and be a crazy person?

Like ... OCD is a cute excuse, and that I’m actually all the terrible things I think, and then I’ll get so paranoid I see something in the corner of my eye - which I don’t, but that I’m incurable and misdiagnosed and am schizophrenic or bipolar !

ALL THE TIME!

Hey man can you like. Not call people with schizophrenia “crazy people”. It’s super derogatory and shitty. Schizophrenia is a mental illness, not something that turns someone “crazy”. If anything? People with schizophrenia and psychosis are less likely to do anything harmful to people than most neurotypicals. I hope you reconsider your word usage.

I know what you mean beezy! Thinking your perspective isn’t what it is can be a messed up feeling! Like we already are going through so much so a curve ball feeling like that is awful.

Your sister has the rights to reclaim it. I didn’t have intention to start an argument, but this isn’t being overly sensitive either. It’s not hard to apologize and correct yourself, and that was my intent behind communicating this. I’m sorry if I may have made anything worse, but it really irks me to see people use ableist language in general.

But yes, i think it’s pretty normal to feel depersonalized since I Think ocd has the habit of producing thoughts that can easily turn into delusions? Not to mention it could possibly trigger dissociation (maybe even derealization or depersonalization), as dissociation is a defence mechanism in the face of stress.

Thank you everyone. Sorry I didn’t mean anything by that, just feeling really shitty today and now I feel a little worse.

I’m literally the nicest person in the world and I think that’s why I suffer from these thoughts of being crazy and doing something out of my control.

Harm ocd does that a lot. Thankfully, people with it are also less likely to hurt anyone than your average person. After all, what differs us from actually bad people is admitting to something wrong and getting help.

I’ve been dealing with it for 7 years now. Just days like today are hard to overcome. That’s all.

Aaaaah yeah I get that. Well at least you use it as a last resort! After all treatment usually depends on how much of a hindrance for daily functionality ocd is, if I remember properly

People that struggle with intrusive thoughts or impulses will get most likely put in a locked unit bc healthcare workers don’t fully understand such things. Acceptance and perception are the main things.

They really aren’t, it’s scary

BRUH wtf. They should be trained to help out with stuff like this. I knew some had no idea how to treat dissociative disorders but fucking ocd???? Hello????

Healthcare workers that don’t specialize in OCD don’t understand it- seriously it’s a thing. My two good friends are therapists, they both know nothing of it really. My first ever session outside of a specialist - they told me I might be schizophrenic. I gotta tell you, heading that was not a good time. My current psychologist lost her damn mind over it. But they just don’t know ! The hear intrusive thoughts and don’t grasp it.

Schizophrenia is so different from ocd too. That’s the problem and why people don’t get help. The intrusive thoughts and stuff.

My psychologist literally will laugh at me and remind me it’s totally common and normal, terrifying feeling to have all the time - but nice to be able to know it’s not just me,

Didn’t mean anything at all by saying those things. Don’t take it so personal. I meant not being in reality, being bizarre minded as a person with schizophrenia has.

That is still incredibly derogatory. Also, people with schizophrenia don’t have a “bizarre” mind? They just have a different perception of the world. Once again, please choose your words properly: You might not realize but the words you picked enforce ableist stereotypes about schizophrenia.

Mmm, my sister is schizophrenic and bipolar, she says these things all the time. In fact I know several people with the diagnosis who all say this. So, calm down and stop being so overly sensitive, this place is supposed to be supportive and that’s actually a fear so you’re not helping you’re making it worse.

I’m sorry if I caused you to feel worse. It’s okay to feel bad sometimes, though, because sometimes it just be like that. But I would highly recommend trying to do some self care!

It’s okay to have down days. Do you have any access to medical help? Or can you afford it?

Yea. I just choose not to. I use a lot of learned techniques and reading. Meditation.

Therapy and taking meds are a last resort thing to me. I work in the health field and everyone I know is on medication and still struggle with there issues. You know?

I respect your decision, though if things get really bad please at least try to go the er maybe? Because some things can be handled that way but there’s also only so much we as humans can handle on our own without guidance from another person.

Thanks.

Aren’t healthcare workers like. Trained in that stuff tho o.o

Not really.

Yea that’s why I don’t get why they can’t tell???? Usually schizophrenia is characterized by delusion and hallucinations, not ritualistic behaviour and anxiety until the ritual is carried out. The only thing that can potentially be similar is the lack of touch with reality. However as far as I am concerned ocds form of derealization is a defence mechanism in the face of stress as well as having to live with intrusive thoughts so much that they can’t tell what’s real and what’s not. However, schizophrenia is almost 100% because the delusions and hallucinations feel too real. So even then the derealization isn’t 100% identical. So yeah I’m at a loss at how Anyone can mistake ocd for schizophrenia, it’s... rlly weird.

Right. Most people with ocd can tell they have ocd and something wrong. With schizophrenia I think it’s more difficult to tell something is wrong.