Does anyone feel like they’re losing themselves? I just experienced something really strange and I’m scared I’m actually developing schizophrenia

Its your ocd, thoughts can get crazy, hang in there, love for u

When I first started with this theme I thought no one else had it so mine was probably true and it wasn’t ocd but when I had the thoughts it came more like a fact so basically as something I really believed and then I’d question it bcus I knew I didn’t believe it but I’d still come back and think do I really believe this like it

This is exactly my situation! I’m having complete anxiety and a sinking feeling every time the thoughts pop up cause I’m like convincing myself I believe the thoughts. I had one random thought like what if you believe people aren’t real and they really are like monsters or something and they are gonna hurt you? I knew how crazy that thought was but I was like oh my gosh what if I believe it and I’m gonna go crazy!! I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it and then I start to look at people differently. It’s so scary. I know I’m being ridiculous but at the same time it feels so real. I’m scared of losing it and hurting someone as well.

Mine started off as being scared of sounds because I was scared that I was going to hear something then the intrusive thoughts came bcus I was triggered by something someone said to me and after that it was all I thought of and when the thought popped up my body would freeze for like some seconds and get hot I’m guessing that was my anxiety lol but I knew it wasn’t something I believed but I am also scared of hurting someone and just completely losing myself

Do you ever think you believe the fake thoughts, even for a split second or do you recognize right away you definitely don’t believe it? Like When I first have the thought I’m like oh my gosh I think I believe this and then I’m like no way is it true. It like takes me a minute. Then I question myself all day as to why I had the thought and tell myself that nobody else would think these thoughts so I must be losing it.

I get scared that maybe something is different from my experience that means it’s actually schizophrenia and not ocd but if you don’t mind how long have you been dealing with ocd?

I struggled with this awhile ago and it felt exactly how you two are explaining it, I began to say to myself ‘I will accept the uncertainty that I may go crazy’ (it’s very hard to begin with I know) but it has helped leaps and bounds, you are not crazy to clarify but what if you were you’d get help and be ok, I know many schizophrenics who live totally normal lives medicated, keep saying to yourself it doesn’t matter if you are, schizophrenics don’t go around hurting people, only a small percentage do that. It will get better, mine has, it comes back from time to time and I just say the same to myself! Everything will be alright just stop checking.

Yes! I’ve had 2 themes so far and I feel like this one was harder than the pocd one but I think I’ve had it since I was like in my teens because I have some memories of it but it just faded until this year on august I started off with pocd and the schizophrenia theme

Out of nowhere everything just sounded so for away for like a second

I want to google the starting symptoms of schizophrenia but I know it’s also a compulsion

I’m going through the same fear at the moment. It feels so so real. I have convinced myself I am gonna lose touch with reality at any minute. I have been having this fear the last few days. You’re not alone!! I’m right there with you!

I think also I had that thought cause I use to read forums online with people struggling with schizophrenia and my brain is somehow mocking it and putting It as intrusive thoughts. So scary.

I think mine started when I was working on my pocd theme and I had just found out I had ocd and my friend was talking to me about schizophrenia and I just thought maybe this is what I have and ever since then I’ve been stuck with this theme

I have definitely had that as well. I would check over and over to make sure I wasn’t hearing things. I would even ask people if they were hearing certain sounds and noises too. I also get that hot feeling your talking about and it’s so uncomfortable. I can’t even talk about schizophrenia or read about it without getting some level of anxiety. This theme has come and go for me as well. I have also struggled with harm OCD, existential, and religious themes. I thought this theme had completely gone away but unfortunately it hasn’t. I too also believed it was something worse then OCD and I was just gonna lose it.

That’s exactly how mine is. It comes like a fact and then I get a rush of anxiety and have to check to see if I believe it or not. I think all the time that’s it’s something more then anxiety just cause it’s so intense. I think a part of me has struggled with OCD even in my childhood. I didn’t start really know the symptoms until 2015. I had a huge life change and it kind of just triggered my OCD. I was struggling with generalized anxiety as well as PTSD from a bad car accident prior the OCD symptoms. My OCD then started with the harm theme. Do you mind if I ask when you’re symptoms started?