I got stuck in a Solipsism spiral and I feel like everything and everyone is fake and all in my head like a dream is all in your head at night. I feel like i’m never going to feel normal again and alone and stuck. I feel like everything could be in my head and nothing exists. Please can someone tell me they felt like this before and got over it eventually and back to normal.
All I’m gonna tell you is that I felt the same way and got over it. Live your life and stop focusing on your thoughts.
@Mikecicle Do you feel normal now like you did before hearing about Solipsism. I feel like there’s no getting past this.
@Mikecicle if its OCD. there is no way he can just live his life and stop focusing on the thought, he needs treatment, stop focusing on your thought in an mental exhaustion state is easier said than done.
@Jusne Is it possible to recover from Solipsism OCD and go back to normal. I feel like i’m at a dead end.
@Delo Yes there definitely is, and I totally understand what y mean by dead end, I had struggled with it too, and be sure to identify if u feel anxious or depressed. because feeling hopeless can also contribute to depression, I had moderate depression because of solipsism for 2 weeks, but i always thought it was just anxiety, but anxiety can only make u frustrated not a feeling of complete despair, i won’t minimize what ur feeling and what u go through because i get minimized what i felt alor before too, by my mother who thought i was being dramatic, solipsism feel so fuckung isolated and lonely, and it frustrates me now, i somehow got out or depression but is still stuck in ocd pattern, just started therapy and will do my best, I have seen peoples on tiktok, and other posts them improving and recovering from solipsism ocd, the key is acceptance, I know it sounds dangeruous and hopeless because no way i would accept solipsism. I know how hopeless it feels trust me, actually, and i know u might think im fake too, and i also think u might be fake but just in case u are real. i want to help u, im still in progress, if u are real and somehwere in the world, i wish we could both recover and meet someday, if its appropriate and promising.
@Jusne Thanks, one thing I realised today is that the Solipsism feeling of being at a dead end and so scary and never ending, i’ve had that for other obsessions and fears. Is that OCD, in the sense of that’s what the OCD does. It creates those feelings?
@Delo YES, i had this dead end feelings for other philosophical themes too, but now solipsism seems never ending, i am not diagnosed so I don’t know what im suppose to be doing, just researching all day and trying to stop myselr from seeking reassurance
@Delo if ur not sure if ur ocd, talk to a psychologist or psychiatrist a licensed one. they can do a diagnosis
@Jusne OCD is not something that happens to us, it’s something we actively do.
@Mikecicle so u mean im the one who created this suffer? I can control my compulsion but never obsessions, but thinking about it, I do care alot about what I am obsessed on regardless of my brain reacting to it.
Suffering from solipsism ocd where I think that everything around me is fake and that I’m stuck in a simulation as the only conscious being. I also have thoughts that there is a higher power that is controlling everything around me and that I’m the main character in a video game. Everyone and everything around me is an npc or generated to keep me in the “game”. This is the worst ocd theme that I’ve had to deal with thus far. Is there anybody else that has had this? and what ERP techniques can I use? Need some ideas. Thanks.
Hey guys so I’m new here and just recently started struggling with some health ocd and thinking I had a brain tumor but it’s taken a turn for the worse and become this existential ocd where I’m questioning quite literally everything in my life, the purpose of being here and stuff. I just started meds yesterday, which is scary for me cause I’ve never been on them before. I keep having thoughts like, why does everything feel like a blur, what’s the meaning of this and I wake up every day with just existential dread. I’ve been having very vivid dreams that make dreaming and reality confusing I also am scared cause I’m dealing with some DP/DR as well. I just wish my life could go back to a few months ago before I knew all of this was possible. I guess I’m just writing this too get it off my chest and see if any of you all have gone through something similar and made it out okay?
Hi all, First time posting and it comes in the midst of a big spiral and panic. Currently dealing with what we think is borderline existential OCD where I feel like I’ve come to believe that I’m not real, that this is all a dream, that I’m actually a psychotic person walking down the street imagining all of this. Got very triggered yesterday by seeing someone screaming and yelling at what seemed to be nothing. Had a panic attack this morning and just haven’t been a wreck since worrying that I’m going to end up in psych ward, realize I’m actually crazy, etc. Been in NOCD therapy for almost 4 months now and still struggling to sit with the uncertainty, avoid researching, seeking reassurance, and most of all ruminating. Anyone go through something similar and if so what were key tactics you used during these spirals to calm things down and recenter yourself?
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