I’m constantly having fears of getting psychosis like I’ve been thinking I want to get closer to God but my brain is like what if I end up in religious physcosis or what if I drive myself into physcosis from my intrusive thoughts or what if I’m already in it.
I’ve gone through the same recently… fear of being possessed… it can’t be though we have VICTORY and I think the more we stay in our thoughts the weirder they get
@CancelPure0 I’ve had that fear too especially at night
I'm not a professional therapist, or a cleric, but I suggest that in a case like this you should defang OCD ny saying to yourself, "I'll deal with that if the situation ever presents itself," then go do something constructive to distract yourself. My therapist taught me that it's not the content of the thought, but how we reactvto it, that's important. Are you in therapy with a trained OCD therapist who uses ERP therapy?
@Steven55! I currently am not I wouldn’t be able to afford it
@Liesey Do you have insurance?
@Steven55! Not for this 🥴
As backward as this sounds, telling myself the worst could happen and that's OK has been helpful. When I tried to reassure myself something would never happen it made things worse because my OCD would plant seeds of doubt in my head. Sort of embracing uncertainty and letting my OCD thoughts play out without engaging with them has been helpful, but it can be tough. Trying to do self-care stuff helps because I notice that stress in other areas of my life tends to make my OCD worse.
@Barkley55! I’ve tried that with all my other thoughts I’ve had but sometimes it makes me feel bad saying that’s ok because it makes me feel like the thoughts are winning if that makes sense
@Liesey That totally makes sense. What I try to do is differentiate between intrusive thoughts and thinking. The former I try to remind myself I can't control, but I can ignore and not engage with. It's a real challenge, but separating myself from the intrusive thoughts that pop in my head sometimes has been helpful.
The WHAT-IFS is a classic OCD theme. Most, if not all, of us have gone through it. Question: would you please clarify what you mean by religious psychosis?
@Steven55! Like what if I start believing false beliefs if that makes sense
i have such a fear of psychosis and schizophrenia, so i’m scared that i’m going to develop it and lose control over my OCD thoughts. If im very tired and my eyes get heavy i get so scared that im going to go crazy or that i have one or the other. and if i have a panic attack im convinced im going to develop it. does anyone have any tips on how to work though this? i saw a thing online that said people with these dont know the have it and that scared me into thinking i have it and dont know.
I don't know what to do anymore, the fear of psychosis and schizophrenia is so bad in so hyper aware of everything I hear and everything I see, I've always had eye floaters now I convince myself that it's really me hallucinating, I've always had tinnitus but now I'm convinced it means I'm going to go crazy soon, I can't sit in quiet because all I'm focusing on is what I'm hearing, and searching for any sounds I can't distinguish, when there's background noise I get so anxious if I think I heard something but im not sure I did or I'm just anxious, I'm terrified I'll start having delusions and sometimes my brain confuses some sounds for other sounds for example say I'm hyper focused and I breathe and my nose makes a whistling sound my mind interprets it as a scream and I freak out thinking I'm hallucinating only to focus closer and realize it's my own breathing, earlier I was so anxious that I couldnt tell if I had an intrusive thought or heard something, I don't know how to make it stop, I've been through this theme before I just forgot how hard it was I'm having a panic attack please help
does anyone else have an intense fear of developing schizophrenia or psychosis. This has been a really heavy theme for me as well. I’m constantly checking to see if I have symptoms or if I’m gonna go crazy or develop these. it’s so scary.
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