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The thoughts you’re having are also typical ocd thoughts/ fears. You have to treat them like any other obsession. My personal favorite technique is to use “maybe” phrases. (Ie. Maybe I’m going crazy, maybe I have (insert fear) etc. and sit with the anxiety until the thoughts make their way to the trash, where they deserve to be. :)
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Bruh I want to go to a camp therapy for ocd and just become a better version of myself, know any?
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Thank you all for responding! I will work on letting those thoughts just be and treat them like any other OCD thought. It’s so frustrating and scary but I will push through. Thank you all again?
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Shirt I feel bad but I think I have oce cause a thought just pop up in my head, and it just brothers me
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Same with me. They can be violent thoughts for me too that I’ve been struggling with for a while now. Do you have a therapist or physiologist? You should go talk about it to them and see if you can have meds for it.
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I don’t have a ocd therapist and most of them probably need to pay
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@GummyDrop Hmm not really sure? I had those thoughts for a really long time now. My therapist doesn’t really bring them up though. You can talk to me if you want to or are comfortable with it. Since we relate
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@EstherHan If you have hocd please I want to have a full convo with you
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@hannie i struggled this summer- daily and intensely- with the obsession that i might have schizophrenia or be about to develop it. i’m here if you need to talk and you’re not alone. Chrissie Hodges on youtube has a video about this exact obsession
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Thank you so much. Did you ever experience like fake delusions? Like you would get an intrusive thought about something bizarre and think like “what if I believe it for real?”.I am struggling so bad at the moment with that. I feel like I’m going crazy. Thank you again for responding! ?
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@hannie yes! i would worry that an obsession or a thought was actually delusional and always be trying to figure out how much i believed it. i also sometimes worried that perceptual experiences were actually hallucinations or ghat i was losing touch with reality in some other way. you’re not alone ❤️
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@Audrey11 That is exactly what I am going through at the moment. It’s so scary cause I spend my time thinking “oh my gosh, that thought is not normal, maybe it’s a delusion.” “Do I really believe it?” Then those intrusive thoughts play over and over until I start to panic because I think I believe then even though I know they sound crazy. I also have had a fear of losing touch with reality cause of how bizarre my thoughts are. It’s really scary.
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@hannie this is exactly what happened to me! just try to remember that OCD will do anything to scare us!
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Hi everyone, I haven’t posted in a while—about 6 months—but I’m really struggling and need some help or advice. I thought I had healed from all of this, or at least I was doing so much better. I have never felt this before but it feels like I’m slipping back into something I can’t control. Right now, it feels like I’m stuck in a bad reality. It’s like I’m trapped with my dad in one reality, and I’m trying to get back to the other where I’m with my family, but I can’t. It’s so hard to explain, but everything around me feels unreal, and my mind keeps telling me I’m stuck. It feels so real, and I don’t know how to get out of it. It’s like I’ve been transported to another world, and I can’t break free. nd now I’m scared I’ll never come back to the “good” reality I had before. and I genuinely believe this. I’ve been struggling with these thoughts about spiritual realms, the devil, and spiritual warfare. My dad has always talked about these things, and he’s gone through psychosis before. He’s also had a history of doing a lot of drugs, and now I’m terrified that I might end up like him. I fear that I’m somehow becoming like him, trapped in that same mental space he’s been in. He talks about spiritual stuff that scares me, and I can’t shake the thought that I might be losing myself the same way he did. I know this might sound weird, but I feel like I’m getting closer to that line, and I don’t know how to stop it. I keep feeling like I’ll never come back to the way things were, like I’ll always be stuck in this distorted reality. I’m afraid of losing myself, especially in my faith. I believe in God, but my thoughts and fears about all of this are making it hard to feel connected to Him. I feel so distant from God right now, and it’s hard to see how this can change. Has anyone else experienced something like this—feeling like you’re trapped between realities, afraid of becoming someone you don’t want to be, or struggling with fears like this? How did you cope? I just need some hope that I can get through this and come back to a better place. I’m scared, and I feel like I can’t escape this. Any advice would really mean a lot right now.
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Paranoia… I need to know because I’m feeling very alone in this. I’ve never met someone with the level of paranoia that I have. I can logically explain things to myself and somehow my paranoia convinces me of another story. I’m constantly thinking exaggerated thoughts that there are so many scary possibilities. Am I alone in this or what? If so any suggestions on how to calm these thoughts
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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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