Fear of psychosis. I don’t want to trigger anyone, but I’m having a particularly hard time with this “theme”. I’ve been on a high state of anxiety for days now about developing psychosis or already having it. I went to my psychologist and she claims it’s ocd. Basically what is going on is that I’m having obsessions over hearing voices. I’m compulsively researching etc and I fear I’m making it worse. I have intrusive thoughts about “hearing” a voice say something if that makes sense. Like I don’t actually hear a voice but I have a thought about a voice. It’s pretty scary and idk how to do erp with it. Also, late at night I have severely racing thoughts lately. Does this sound like OCD or something else?

I had fear of psychosis really bad for a while. I’d say it was one of my first obsessions. These days, I would say I’m close to overcoming it. I still have triggers that will unravel my fearful thought process, but ultimately I’ve realized that there is no amount of researching, anxious thinking, preparing, checking for psychosis. If you’re going to have it, you will, there will be no amount of worrying that can prevent it. If it’s going to happen, it will. Hope this isn’t triggering but this is what helped my get over my psychosis fear. I’d really struggle with “delusional thoughts” that would pop into my head and I’d worry if it meant I was schizophrenic, but then I’d tell myself, if I am, I am. If I will be, then I will. I can’t control it.

I have strictly mental compulsions. Like taking tests online, researching all that stuff. It’s super frustrating because I know it doesn’t help.

Quick update. This theme has dissipated to almost extinction. A couple things that really helped were just accepting that it could happen and if it does there’s no amount of worrying or thinking that can change it. My therapist was so brilliant in saying “if the train is coming you can’t stop it”. That kind of just made me let go. Still dealing with Harm Ocd but a great exposure was listening to videos and simulators of it!

Was debating going away this weekend because of all these fears but I think I’m going to book my hotel today and travel with these irrational fears

Yeah I guess the biggest thing is just accepting, and I know that but this is just a hard thing to do I guess. It’s more or less just super scary to think about and face that I’m having difficulty with. Stems from my Harm ocd probs

Do you have any erp tips? I feel like the more I read and watch it the more my mind tries to trick me into the symptoms. Ugh

I’m going through the exact same thing right now. The OCD stories has a new podcast that covers this subject. I’ll warn you that it may be a bit triggering if you listen, but in it there’s a guy who has had this fear for a very long time but has improved after getting treatment. There are things I can tell you but it may be triggering so I’ll hold back. Best thing to do is try your best to do things you would do if you had none of these obsessions or any of the fear they bring.