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 was home for a couple of weeks with my family and two days ago my sister found small blood stains in her bed in a separate room. Our exterminator came and looked hard. he did not find any bugs or other signs in her room or in mine. Despite this, he did believe that the stains were from bedbugs and treated her room. there were no visible signs of bed bugs other than a couple of blood stains on her bedsheets. Nobody has seen any bugs or gotten bit…. Yet. The exterminator said Its fine for me to go home normally, but if I’m worried to wash my clothes when I get home tonight. Our dryer is not very hot and given my previous trauma with bedbugs I am in a state of complete panic. I am no stranger to these as when I was in high school my dorm building had them. This dominated my every thought. I’d shake my clothes whenever i took them off, obsessively checking, feeling itchy/things crawling on me without existing avoid people in “that” part of the dorm and obsessing constantly. I never had them but it dominated my life for a long time. Now its back. I am freaking out. I had to pack my bag and leave that day. I got home, bagged the clothes i was wearing, put everything in the basement, took a shower then washed and dried all of my clothes. In my two days home, i barely slept the first night and today was better but im not doing anything tonight and im ruminating/obsessing heavily. Checking everything i can, feel itchy/something is crawling on me. It’s all i think about and given how long it can take for bbs to appear after introduction, I fear it will be until I have something more extreme/pressing to fixate on.
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
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