Does anyone else have obsessions about psychosis/schizophrenia? And more specifically are conspiracy theories a HUGE trigger for you? -i.e.people talking about them/bringing them up in conversation casually. -fearing if you hear them you will someone believe them and lose touch with reality.

I agree! It is definitely the toughest obstacle Ive come across in my OCD journey. There is some literature on it, but not much and the most frustrating thing is my “searches” often come up with research in comorbid cases of OCD and psychosis, and/or misdiagnosis of psychosis in people with OCD, which are both insanely triggering haha With Harm OCD information was so readily available and it seemed so easly to apply ERP. Really struggling to do the same with existential OCD and mental medical OCD. With this particular obsession I worry if I apply ERP, I will literally lose my mind and end up somewhere I cannot return from, losing everything I love and care for in my life. It’s eternal lonliness and fear of being permenatly lost that I feel like I’m obsessively running from. Ugh, Im meeting with a therapist from here tomorrow to discuss it. Keeping my fingers crossed that I get some good tricks. Will def be sharing it if so.

This is one of my biggest fears/obsessions. I’ve read so much about the illness that now of course my ocd and anxiety mimic as many of the symptoms as it can which is terrifying. My psychiatrist has said that it’s a very common fear of anxious and ocd people and that the mind does this. I had/have gotten so hyperaware of all sounds and movements out of fear of “hallucinations”. Always trying to prove that my fear is valid. It’s exhausting but you’re not alone! Very common fear.

1000000% yes. I find it’s really common or atleast more common than I thought. I find it more common on reddit than here for some reason but it’s a big fear that many of us get and I wish it was covered more. We start to get all these weird fears and beliefs the conspiracy one I understand completely. I used to be able to watch videos on people who believed all these conspiracies and it was entertaining sometimes it was funny but now I think back and I fear Ill actually be delusional and believe them. It’s tricky though because some people think the earth is flat and they seem like normal people other than the fact that they believe that weird thing so are they really delusional? To me this is almost as bad as our ocd can get and I hope we fight our way through it!!

Yes I hope that I can be a help in the future. Unfortunately one of my worst compulsions was researching but in doing so I learned so much. And I hope to continue my learning and help this community. I can relate to this so much. Unfortunately I am also going through another anxiety related issue that I’ll spare you but happened after I quit Prozac cold turkey. It made this obsession 1000x worse. Is ocd/ anxiety al you deal with at the moment?

I spared you more details because I didn’t want it to cause any damage or to your situation by triggering you. So keep reading if you’d like. ................ I’m also dealing with derealization and depersonalization which makes me feel extremely detached at times. It happens after trauma extreme anxiety or drugs. In my case the Prozac. Most people get it from smoking weed but yea to already be scared by schiz ocd then get dpdr just made it sooo much worse but I’m working on it and trying hard to live life with my symptoms.

This is one of the most common fears now that I realize it. Only reason why it doesn’t seem so common is because many ocd patients fear that they’ll go crazy but it’s not their main concern for us however it might have been and we dig deeper and found a label other than crazy and that’s psychosis/schiz. I know we’ll come out on the other side of this obsession stronger than we were before.

Somehow*

Also hoping more info on this subset comes out. I too see a lot of people on Reddit with this similar OCD and there are so few answers. We’re on the forefront, hoping there can be more answers for future OCD sufferers of this subset. It seems like they’re only increasing in numbers.

Ive been caught in a dp/dr state for over a year now. Mine came after smoking marijuana. I can soooo relate. It’s frustrating how something so common seems to have so few answers for coping. I did read something interesting about it though and how some would try to spin it into a positive thing. Like experiencing dp/dr actually allows you to experience life in more visceral way, for which we have power to make amazing or terrifying.

Thank you all so much, it feels so much better not feel alone in this ❤️

Going through this right now it's so tough :(

How are u guys doing now