I feel like I kept getting bit by something but nothings there! I know this is a symptom of schizophrenia & now I'm freaking out! Plus I deal with delusional like thoughts, so that's a double whammy 😣
I think you’re likely paying too much attention to the sensations of your skin. If I really focus on mine, it’s an itch there, and there, and oh I wanna scratch that, and that’s a little tickle. Just typing this made them happen more frequently. When you hyper focus on sometime, it’s more apparent. But am I this itchy most of the time? No. Or if I am feeling slightly more itchy one moment to the next, I don’t read anything into it. If we only looked at this symptom to diagnose schizophrenia we’d be in trouble. Luckily, it’s not. By a long shot. Accept these weird sensations and stop letting them steal your attention. And stop trying to figure out if or what they could mean. It’s only going to intensify them.
It's super annoying! I'm really trying the maybe I am maybe I'm not! 😕 just sucks when you get in that spiral, kinda hard to get out. Thanks for response
try not to live with a “what if” mindset. im guessing when you get those sensations/thoughts you probably start to spiral in a “what if this means im schizophrenic” “what does this mean for my future?” type thoughts, but just try to be in the moment and realize that right now there is nothing wrong. maybe you have schizophrenia, maybe you dont. i believe either way you will overcome it. just take everything a step at a time and try not to get in a cycle of rumination and other compulsions. your going to feel like you need a certain answer right now but i promise you dont, everything will turn out alright. you just need to let yourself live. 🙂
Thank you for your response! I'll do so good for a little while then something comes up and I get triggered and spiral. It's exhausting 😪
developing schizophrenia was a huge ocd of mine. i understand 100% completely. like others said, the more you focus on something, the worse it can get. your mind is really powerful. more powerful than your own body. you can convince yourself so many things! i’m a super hyper aware person, and i can notice the smallest touch/sensation. not sure if this was any help, but wanted to let you know i dealt with this too!
Idk anymore it feels like being on here is a trigger. Every time I see a minor post on the app, my intrusive thoughts go haywire and then my brain says maybe you should comment something inappropriate and i literally don't wanna fucking do that. It's the last thing I want to do. And now im scared that I commented something crude on someone's post. obviously, when I went to check there was nothing now my brain is saying "you commented and then deleted". I want to think it's something I wouldn't do, but why are the images in my head so real. Children should be safe. I feel like I need to be locked away. Someone please help me.
idk why this is such a recurrent thing for me , I get so scared through the day when I’m not distracted when I think about psychosis. or being put in a mental hospital that it gives me bad anxiety, one time I had a panic attack at the thought of having it 💔 I can’t pin point if it’s intrusive thoughts because it’s a fear of mine .. or not. I think this is the worst thought / fear I have
Hi guys! I had really bad harm ocd about 2 years ago and I went through therapy and eventually got really good at handling it when it would pop up. The other day, I was scrolling on TikTok and came across a girl talking about a guy who was presenting a lot of schizophrenic symptoms but no one paid attention and got him help, he was having a lot of delusions, hallucinating, thinking everyone was out to get him, thought he was Jesus and his dad was the president and ended up doing horrific things. The day after that, I was dealing with some work drama and had the thought of “what if all my coworkers are against me and trying to get me fired”. That really stressed me out, cause I don’t normally think about them like that and I went down a rabbit hole of thinking that was the beginning of me developing schizophrenia, ended up googling stuff all night, taking tests, crying and seeking reassurance. I had a thought the other day “your dad is the president”, this one didn’t stress me out as bad as I knew it was just the video I had seen and it was an intrusive thought about it, and I also didn’t believe it. Today I was with some friends and I got a prize at a place we went and it said “lonely” on it. I do have my moments of feeling lonely and this week has been specifically trying so I had a thought like “oh someone’s out to get me cause I got this”. I know this isn’t logical and it wouldn’t make sense to just randomly get it if someone was truly after me and it was just a stupid prize at a random place, anyone could’ve gotten it. Im just struggling a lot with schizophrenic OCD and thinking I’m in the pre stages of it. In my good moments, I don’t think I am at all and it was all just sparked from the video I watched but in my bad moments, these thoughts feel real!! They really stress me out and make me feel like I’m going to lose my mind causing me to lose my job/ end up in a psych hospital/ never live a normal life/ end up alone, never see me my loved ones/ hurt my loved ones. I just want to feel normal and not like I’m about to lose my mind and everything I care about. Please help!!! Anyone else going through something similar and can help me get through this!
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