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!
I struggle so bad with intrusive thoughts. They can be so bad that I'll cry because I KNOW that's not how I feel or want to do. (Too embarrassed to say what they're about) I'll constantly try to figure out why I have them, and constantly figure out what they mean, causing me to constantly circle around and around. I had to get on anxeity meds, which helped a little but the thoughts still happen. How do you help yourself with this? How do you know that you're just not some physcopath? 😅
Two things are happening: I get thoughts that just keep looping. They almost feel like song stuck in my head. Also, I’ll imagine something and I feel my stomach drop. Then as the seconds go by I keep getting fragments of the this thought but with different details. For example, it’s kinda like how a “vision” is portrayed. I’ll get a glimpse of the thought and then it’ll rapidly expand into something worse every few seconds. I don’t know if I’m causing this or if it’s just an automatic thing like any other intrusive thought. It feels unavoidable, idk if this is a compulsion or if it’s just another manifestation of an intrusive thought. Apart from that remembering an intrusive thought triggers the full thought again and then it just keeps looping or expanding. I don’t know how to stop any of this. Help?
Recently ive been getting very scared to even be angry bc of the horrible thoughts I have and it feels even more real when I'm angry or even annoyed. Rn I was not even super annoyed at my neice but I felt a twinge of annoyance since she went up to my face and was yelling at me while I was resting on the bed and I got this image of doing something bad to her and I felt my hand twitch very little. I got nervous and felt relieved when her dad told her to stop screaming for no reason. I've been hyperfocusing on my bodily reactions (mainly my hands or how I'm feeling like did I just enjoy that? Was I considering???) And I've noticed the small twitches whenever I'm mad or annoyed and it's scaring me so bad! Like do I want to act out? Am I holding back??? I used to not even twitch at all when mad and I felt 100% sure I'll never act out but now it feels like I don't know bc what do these twitches mean?, I do know I don't want to ever act out but it's so scary. Recently whenever I feel angry once the argument is over I cry really bad after I'm alone and I pray so i never want or act out. And when the annoyance passes I also feel so guilty and want to stay away. Im scared these are real urges and i research for many many hours to make sure they arent urges or impulses and i also tend to ask chatgpt or here if the anxiety gets so bad 😕
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