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- Drepet123
- Date posted
- 4y ago
- Username
- GeeGeeGeeGee
- Date posted
- 4y ago
This is a huge fear of mine. I also catch myself checking my perceptions and then remind myself it’s just OCD chatter. Embracing uncertainty: I may or may not develop psychosis. Who knows? And if I do I hope the people around me help me find the right support and treatment. Keep fighting the OCD!
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- Drepet123Drepet123
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Ocd cannot cause psychosis. That’s a common misconception that runs rampant online, but not in true medical or scholarly articles. That’s what’s so hard about the Internet, it can steer us wrong. I read so much about it and schizophrenia that I stopped just reading the true facts, and instead went to peoples firsthand stories to which made it worse because they often don’t realize what actually caused their psychosis, so they blame it on their stress or anxiety. This has been scientifically proven to not be true. Hang in there.
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- ChelseadomChelseadom
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I do the same thing. I also just got through 5 months of really bad DP/DR so I’ve been on high alert for signs of psychosis or schizophrenia. When your brain is overstimulated too and in flight mode you are hyper vigilant and aware and it just makes things worse thinking about every little thing. I have thoughts all the time though of “I’m going to hallucinate something” or I have to go to the psych ward, and I have to remind myself that if I’m having those thoughts my reality testing is intact and I’m not psychotic.
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- Drepet123Drepet123
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Exactly. I have the same things. Anxiety has a way of distorting everything. Makes your vision feel foggy which we then perceive as “possible hallucinations” it makes you keep an eye out for any movement at all, which then is perceived as the same. All sounds have to be originated to a source or we believe we are “hearing things” and then even silence (which isn’t really easy to obtain) becomes loud with the intrusive thoughts and chatter our minds create. It’s hard but it will pass. If you truly had psychosis, you would not be questioning it. There are those rare stories on the internet where someone will try and fight that theory, but the truth is they only feel that way now that they are clearer. When they share their actual story, you find they had no idea that anything was going on in the time. You’ve got this. WEVE got this :)
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- ChelseadomChelseadom
- Date posted
- 4y ago
@Drepet123 I totally agree with the sounds, lately I’m hyper aware of where sounds are coming from and I need to know the source otherwise I start spiraling that I’m hallucinating ?
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- Drepet123Drepet123
- Date posted
- 4y ago
@Chelseadom When the reality is the mind is a noisy place. Someone told me my vent sounds like an alarm clock or chattering. And now that’s all I hear ? it’s annoying how our ocd brains work!
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- IwannagetbetterIwannagetbetter
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Reading stuff like this that I relate to so heavily makes me want to cry. It’s so shitty but also so comforting to know I’m not the only one. I’m still working on getting through this. You got it.
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- RiosRios
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Yes I have those thoughts before it’s my own fault because I read some much stuff about what ocd can cause that I’m so fixated that I maybe have that too I know it’s in my head but it scares me to when I think about it
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- RiosRios
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Thanks I will I need to stop searching stuff on the web that is a compulsion and it’s gonna make my ocd worst
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- Drepet123Drepet123
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I’m in the same boat. But I found that it’s so true. I’ll be doing great for days, and then I have a bad day and realize that the reason it was bad is because I looked online. It never helps. The sooner we realize that and let the symptoms our mind has created pass, the better off we are.
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- Drepet123
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I’ll feel fine for a few weeks, then get a scary thought like “what if this isn’t real” or “what if this is a video game or made just for me” scary things that I stupidly read one time can indicate “psychosis” or things like that. Now I know it’s not truly psychosis as the thought scares me and isn’t a “belief” it is an anxious intrusive thought but my mind always is like “but what if you have other mental illness”. I’ve been told by countless psychologists that I have anxiety and occasional OCD thoughts. But my question is has anyone else experienced that before, and if so how did you get through it and not focus on it? The anxiety sucks because the body sensations that go with it, but it just makes me hypersensitive and overly aware of everything. Advice?
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- Nev20
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Hi everyone! Tw: HOCD and Fear of Phsychosis
So I'm fairly new to OCD and Intrusive Thoughts. It all started about 8 months ago for me. I had health anxiety and generalized anxiety and got put on meds for that. I read side affects of meds could cause su*cdal thoughts and it freaked me out and lead me to think what if I started having thoughts of harming others too and instantly for the last 8 months I've had horrible intrusive thoguhts about harming others. Now the other day I ran across a post about how ocd can lead to psychosis, reading about it freaked me out so bad that I'm now scared I'm gonna get psychosis. Paranoid thoughts is a sign of psychosis so I started watching myself I guess to see if I'd become paranoid. And now every thought I have seems paranoid. I'll think things like what if I start becoming paranoid of my loved ones and think they're out to get me? That leaves me questioning if I am paranoid and if I actually do think that. Anyways, I guess I'm just wondering if anyone else has had this happen to them? I pray someone can relate because I'm terrified.
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- mrselfdestru...
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Fear of delusions/ SchizOCD
Disclaimer, I am diagnosed with OCD, GAD, PTSD, ADHD, Panic Disorder and hypochondria. I’ve been in the midst of what I hope and pray is just an extremely debilitating health ocd theme for about 4 months now, where I’ve basically convinced myself I am in the midst of psychosis or developing schizophrenia or a related disorder. I obsess over it day and night to the point where I can’t even function hardly. Constantly researching symptoms and seeking reassurance. Ive been having this weird symptom where my ear canal will randomly feel this pressure/ticklish sensation and I start to become hyperaware of the hole in my ear, and I get this weird tense feeling almost like I’m expecting someone to stick their finger in my ear or expecting something to go inside of it, this weird sensation almost makes me want to cover my ear but I never do. But when I get this weird ear feeling I get absolutely ridiculous crazy thoughts like “what if a demon is trying to get inside your ear” and I’m like WTF why would I even think of that, I don’t even believe in demons or religious stuff like that to begin with. I recognize that the thought is nonsense and FAR out of the realm of reality and makes zero sense.The fact that I would even have a thought like that to begin with scares the f**k out of me! I have never ever had thoughts like this before. YET now whenever I get that weird sensation in my ear I still get intense anxiety, why? Why do I still get such crippling fear from this ear sensation even if I don’t believe the thoughts? Why would my brain even come up with a thought like that in the first place? I’m so terrified of schizophrenia and psychosis, I don’t want to lose my mind ): I have a wife and so many dreams. I’m so scared of losing it. Has someone ever experienced anything remotely similar to this? I know this is very far fetched.
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