Having constant panic attacks

I don’t know how to stop I feel like I’m going to develop psychosis from my existential OCD

Anonymous

Date posted: 25w

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

Tea and Honey

Date posted: 25w

This is a great video about panic attacks. :) https://youtu.be/a2w-1v7RBdk?si=YPgGAX_q2pGXmNkt

Lizethh

Date posted: 25w

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!

eugeniodepalo

Date posted: 25w

@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…

Lizethh

Date posted: 25w

@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 !

eea

Date posted: 25w

Help

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

issphra 🫶🏻

Date posted: 25w

panicking so bad

I want to rip out my uterus. Only my hormones can make my OCD and ability to manage it go back to square one. I am spiraling *so* hard. I cannot breathe. My PMDD is going crazy. I’m having a panic attack again. I feel so scared. The POCD is going absolutely insane right now. It feels undeniably real, and my mind keeps drifting to those awful thoughts and what feels like exploring them?? but I can’t for the life of me stop some of these compulsions right now. I was trying to watch something to get my mind off of this but ended up getting triggered twice, so my anxiety is a 10 and I can’t seem to calm down. This panic attack is tuned all the way up.

kenzieisfound

Date posted: 16w

fear of losing control??

I’ve never been diagnosed with OCD, but I relate so much to what people here are going through. I used to think it was just anxiety, and I felt like I could handle that. But lately I’ve been spiraling—constantly afraid that what I’m feeling is something worse, like psychosis or losing control of my mind. I feel so detached and scared, and I just want peace again. I have anxiety doing the smallest things, like the thought of waking up everyday and even eating give me straight up panic. I am afraid all the time, it’s paralyzing. And a lot of people say someone with psychosis wouldn’t worry that they’re in it, but then I convince myself I’ve been in it this whole time, and haven’t known, and that maybe I’ve been doing weird stuff. Idk. I also get really scared of labels. Even the idea of OCD makes me feel like I’ll never get better or like I’ll be stuck like this forever. I just want to be okay. If anyone has felt this way—confused, overwhelmed, or scared of what’s happening in their mind—I’d really appreciate any support or encouragement.

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