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This is one of my main obsessive themes, so maybe I can help. I’m also hypersensitive to my environment and find myself searching for sounds and checking if I’m hallucinating or not. How did I move through it? Lots of ERP. Face your fear and run towards it, not away from it. Am I hearing things that are not real? Maybe, I do t know for sure. The uncertainty around this thought makes me feel anxious and uncomfortable, because I truly do not know for sure. I am going to keep telling myself this any time I feel myself doing a compulsion...including mental compulsions like mental reviewing and scanning.
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It’s hard because I know my ocd will obsess over it ?
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I completely get what you mean. Looking at it from an ERP standpoint, we’re supposed to just sit with that discomfort of avoiding checking and have that anxiety slowly decrease. But it’s def hard!
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Battle what fears you have. You can start slowly. Don’t avoid anything that may trigger you. This is one of my main fears and I let it get to the point where I couldn’t be alone. And had to work my way out of it. It gets better if you live your life by your standards and don’t let your fears control it. I couldn’t even say schizophrenia now I can watch those who have it online and realize that their life isn’t over like I feared mine would be.
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That’s so amazing. I’m trying to not let myself get to the point where it is controlling my life, but I do notice it’s something that comes up sometimes and I need to not give it the power and meaning it wants.
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@Evelyn4416 Keep up the good work! Ocd is powerful but we are stronger.
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I was just reading something about it too and freaked myself out.....I’m on the same page...
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We should just make a pact to not search out or read things on that subject ?
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Ooooof my biggest OCD. I have a lot I could say but at the moment all i got is that you’re not alone and things truly do get better if you work your treatment — whatever that may be for you individually. “The only way out is through” Lots and lots of love
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I have been having these fears about developing schizophrenia, it reached a point where i am starting to almost hear things or the smallest sounds and my mind tells me you're schizophrenic, and i feel this weird sensations in my ear as if someone is whispering yet i can barely hear them, the thing is i am not diagnosed yet because i never work with an OCD therapist but i study psychology so i just used what i learnt to give a meaning to my suffering, many themes of this fear have been happening before and this schizophrenia fear is the last one. I want to know what advice you can give me or ways to make my brain calm down a little bit, i also don't have and can't afford a therapist that's why i am here in the first place I also want to know more informations or experiences with this theme if anyone habe experienced it and what helped you with it I remember feeling better for a while but than i collapsed back, but i am hoping to get better soon too or anytime in the future, I don't want reassurance so make sure you be as real as you can, and thanks 🙏🏻
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Hi guys! I had really bad harm ocd about 2 years ago and I went through therapy and eventually got really good at handling it when it would pop up. The other day, I was scrolling on TikTok and came across a girl talking about a guy who was presenting a lot of schizophrenic symptoms but no one paid attention and got him help, he was having a lot of delusions, hallucinating, thinking everyone was out to get him, thought he was Jesus and his dad was the president and ended up doing horrific things. The day after that, I was dealing with some work drama and had the thought of “what if all my coworkers are against me and trying to get me fired”. That really stressed me out, cause I don’t normally think about them like that and I went down a rabbit hole of thinking that was the beginning of me developing schizophrenia, ended up googling stuff all night, taking tests, crying and seeking reassurance. I had a thought the other day “your dad is the president”, this one didn’t stress me out as bad as I knew it was just the video I had seen and it was an intrusive thought about it, and I also didn’t believe it. Today I was with some friends and I got a prize at a place we went and it said “lonely” on it. I do have my moments of feeling lonely and this week has been specifically trying so I had a thought like “oh someone’s out to get me cause I got this”. I know this isn’t logical and it wouldn’t make sense to just randomly get it if someone was truly after me and it was just a stupid prize at a random place, anyone could’ve gotten it. Im just struggling a lot with schizophrenic OCD and thinking I’m in the pre stages of it. In my good moments, I don’t think I am at all and it was all just sparked from the video I watched but in my bad moments, these thoughts feel real!! They really stress me out and make me feel like I’m going to lose my mind causing me to lose my job/ end up in a psych hospital/ never live a normal life/ end up alone, never see me my loved ones/ hurt my loved ones. I just want to feel normal and not like I’m about to lose my mind and everything I care about. Please help!!! Anyone else going through something similar and can help me get through this!
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I am so afraid of developing schizophrenia or completely snapping im always checking to see if im hearing voices or if im seeing things im always making sure that I really heard what I heard from people and not in my head.
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