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Oh definitely every day. I really struggle with peoples interpretation of me and so I feel like they hate me for no reason when in reality that’s my own mind thinking that. I’m also paranoid about what I say to people because I feel like I might share too much.therefore my fear of reputation comes in check. It’s hard but you know I just let things be.
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@ColdStoneCreameryAustin This is all day everyday for me haha
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@ColdStoneCreameryAustin I really struggle with this same thing too ♥️
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Yes
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Me, during one of my false mem ocd episodes i became paranoid of everyone..and myself mainly tbh
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I would say so yes . I have this extreme fear where I am going to go schizophrenia or intrusive thoughts are not my own but hallucinations , etc. This extreme hypochondria sometimes has me hyper aware and my fear becomes irrational. Lets just say it inches into paranoia territory but it is driven by anxiety and inability to control my thoughts ( no one can but that is what us ocd sufferers hate) .
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@Mike0310 I suffer from this same extreme fear as well. Comforting to know I'm not the only one ♥️
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Yes. Mine is about health. I dont have health issues but every little twinge sends me into a panic.
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Paranoia and irrational fear can be labeled as two different things . In my mind I know I’m being irrational … it’s just that little seed of “ what if “ doubt that keeps the cycle going .
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I have panic disorder, and OCD and anxiety. Does anyone else ever feel just off the edge all the time? Like I always feel like something’s off or something’s gonna happen. I don’t know how to explain the feeling. But I always feel off and when I feel off I panic
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does anyone read something about someone else’s issue and be scared it will start becoming an issue for them too?
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I have OCD around being a bad or a “weird,” person. I use to be in therapy twice a week for two hours at a time because I was in such bad shape with it. Eventually I moved to once a week at two hours at a time, and now I’m down to just once a week, an hour at a time! I was also put on Lexapro, stayed on it for a year and just weened myself off in Nov. I do feel proud of myself, but today someone said something that was pretty triggering and I’m feeling funny now. Since I was a little girl, if I find someone I liked a lot, I wanted to know everything about them. This typically only happened with older adults and always women. It was always very harmless. I just lived in my head a lot with them always on my mind. Then Facebook came out where you could find out anything about anyone. I could go on to someone’s Facebook page, scroll through their page, pictures, and if I was really interested in them, could find out who their family was through their friends list, etc. Then I’d visit their families FB pages all the time out of just interest (or I guess you could call it being nosy, I don’t really know.) If I really felt interested in them, Id google them, look up their house, just weird stuff like that. I could end up knowing everything about them or their family. It had never caused me any harm or them any harm. I never really thought about it being weird or anything. But one day I woke up and was like, “what if I’m a stalker. What if this person knew that I knew who their parents are, their siblings, etc., etc.?” I got in to an absolute downward spiral about it and felt like such a weirdo, a creep, a freak. Seriously, I’m a pretty normal person. I’m married, kids, husband, stay at home mom, have the same friends I’ve had since middle school, high school, whatever. My therapist didn’t think this was a big deal and I was always scared she was just being nice. I made her promise me to tell me if anything I told her sounded off. Anyway, I was on the phone tonight and the person I was talking to, was talking about someone else and she said, “yeah, I mean she just looks people up and needs to know everything about them. That’s why she could be so good at being a private detective, or something like that. She’s kinda stalkerish.” It hit me hard. I felt like I needed to tell her that maybe she wouldn’t like me either because I can be the same way. I didn’t though. I didn’t get off the phone or do anything with it. If this was a year ago, I’d be in the bathroom vomiting, pacing the floor, taking my anti anxiety med. Today, I just dealt with the uncertainty of her not knowing that I can be the same way. I’m doing ok, but I’m so curious, is it just me that does this kind of thing? Is there anyone else that does this kind of thing? Is this abnormal? I know that it is what it is, but my phone conversation tonight kinda opened up that stuff for me a little bit and now I’m feeling like a freak. Thank you if read this and if you respond.😊
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