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!
Hi all, my ocd has been flaring up lately and I’m not sure why. I think it may be due to stress and anxiety involving school and the hurricanes (I live in Florida) anyways I keep having random intrusive thoughts involving my real event and a lot of false memories are popping up, they feel so real it’s like I can feel everything in them even though I haven’t actually felt them. It’s so weird, like sometimes I will watch a movie and be able to feel the texture of snow or a piece of clothing even though I’ve never felt it before. I have noticed when I get those “phantom” ? touch feelings that they cause a lot of false memory intrusive thoughts. I’ve also been having intrusive thoughts that because no one interacts with my posts on here that everyone hates me and knows about me and thinks I’m horrible and disgusting or that someone is talking about me behind my back and telling people to stay away from me and then I’m a horrible person. I hate OCD so much, I hate that I ruminate constantly on little things and mistakes I’ve made and things I can’t let go. I just hate it so much. Does anyone else struggle with these thoughts or even the “phantom feelings/touches” I’m not sure what to call them sometimes I also get them with certain foods or smells even if I hadn’t had them before or smelt them before. It’s so weird
I saw a post saying that thinking about something for a while will bring it to you. Now I’m scared and panicking because I think about illnesses and getting a disease almost everyday. What should I do? Im very scared
I'm so scared that by thinking about things I can make them happen. I know that's a central thing in OCD but I googled it and a lot of people actually say that if you think about stuff you can make it happen. I've been processing a lot of trauma and having intrusive thoughts about it and I'm so scared that if I think about people who hurt me it will make them contact me and it's making me feel really paranoid and scared and panic and I'm just so scared that I'm somehow conjuring bad people to come into my life and that I'm going to somehow get sucked back into my past or that I am somehow calling people close to me who could hurt me or that something bad is going to happen to me because my thoughts have been so scary and triggering. I'm also feeling really dissociated and I'm worried that these thoughts are actually me starting to have some sort of a psychotic break or something. Please help I'm so scared.
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