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- 22w
Having constant panic attacks
I don’t know how to stop I feel like I’m going to develop psychosis from my existential OCD
I don’t know how to stop I feel like I’m going to develop psychosis from my existential OCD
You'll be okay remember someone in psychosis doesn't have panic attack because for them it's "normal" they don't question anything your too aware which is contrary of psychosis Also my own brother had multiples psychosis episode never he questioned it or panicked for him it was normal
This is a great video about panic attacks. :) https://youtu.be/a2w-1v7RBdk?si=YPgGAX_q2pGXmNkt
I went through existential ocd a few years ago ! I felt exactly like you did, like all those questions and anxiety would lead me into psychosis the key is to accept the unknown, thats its okay to not know, and that getting answers to these questions wouldnt really make a difference, its the OCD driving that panic of "i must know right now or else", my existential ocd quickly turned into schiz ocd when I began obsessing weather I was psychotic or not or maybe i would develop a more severe mental illness, truth is even if you became psychotic you would make it through that too, and it would be okay in the end, youre an overcomer, sit with your thoughts, don't try to push them out, don't react to them, don't engage with them, just acknowledge they are there like any other thought and continue your daily routine, easier said than done i know but the brain is like a muscle and the more you practice this the easier it will get, you got this!
@Lizethh Thank you so much for the advice. It means a lot coming from someone that experienced exactly this. Did you also have the tendency of taking “unusual” events as evidence that your existential thoughts were true? It’s crazy how my OCD latches on to those to fuel the anxiety. Something as simple as crossing the road and having a car honk at me would send me in a spiral thinking that maybe I’m actually dead or in a coma and this is an alternate reality. The last one was a flu ending “too suddenly” for my OCD’s taste…
@eugeniodepalo Very much!! My thoughts fully consisted of what if I was asleep and this was a dream or what if I was hallucinating everyone around me and really I was alone or even sitting in prison cause I had killed them lol! (Harm ocd) I would pinch myself to make sure i wasn't asleep all of that :) I remember one day my therapist told me "so what's so scary about all this? Even if you were asleep or in a coma or dead or any of that why can't you enjoy your dream or your day anyways? What difference does it make?" And after thinking about it i realized it wouldn't be so bad anyways even if it were true and slowly the fear lost it's grip on me then came schiz ocd haha! But the point is you will recover !
Im so scared i wish my brain would send me in to derealisation, im 13 years old and my OCD honestly gives me the most disgusting thoughts I can’t take it anymore my head turns everything into a sexual thought and I can’t even look at my own mom anymore because of them they are really and honestly the most messed up thoughts I could ever think of and I’m so scared idk what to do, I’m on Prozac and going to start ERP soon but I’m still so insanely scared I have lost myself, I’m only just been diagnosed with ocd and don’t know everything abt it but just keep on panicking about everything😭😞😢
I have panic disorder, and OCD and anxiety. Does anyone else ever feel just off the edge all the time? Like I always feel like something’s off or something’s gonna happen. I don’t know how to explain the feeling. But I always feel off and when I feel off I panic
Lately I have been having really really bad existential ocd the thoughts and compulsions never stop they are even in my dreams I resist compulsions as long as I can but I just want this to go away I keep thinking about how many hours in a day people would have if they weren’t like me I just feel so awful every second I feel like I’m living a double life I only know about I just want this to all go away
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