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Is developing schizophrenia a current or past obsession of yours?
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no, i just worry that i have it
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i do not know what it would mean. i could obviously continue living, and i can accept the uncertainty. but it would be nice to know. i am not able to have a therapist at the moment.
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I'm also talking a lot to myself plus I sing in the mirror and I used to have my own kind of world inside my head including all the superheroes ame characters from movies and cartoons and I was always creating stories based on what was around me, for example the mirror being a portal to other dimension. I like the world inside my head and I do compulsions to "protect" it from negative suff in the real world.
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I talk to myself for hours everyday and I pace aggressively so I can relate a lot. I also thought for awhile I could be schizophrenic, if you don't mind sharing your symptoms I have learned a bit about schizophrenia, it was the only way I could stop believing I had it. I talked to a psychiatrist to learn more about it because when I just looked it up, it wasn't enough to convince me.
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i talk to myself for hours everyday as well. i pretend like someone is there. however, i know they aren’t. and i’ll pretend to be that person too. i’ll talk back.. being that person. so it’s an actual conversation. the only thing that’s stopping me from believing i have schizophrenia is because no one in my family has it, i don’t necessarily hear voices and i can determine reality from fantasy.
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I do that too because I was an only child until I was 13
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I'm not quite sure what I have. But I have been talking to things since I was ten. First it was walls, then dolls, and now it's just books. I talk to the characters in the book as if they're there, knowing they aren't. They never talk back, and I know in reality they don't exist, but I spend sometimes hours talking to them about my interests and experiences. Especially with OCD. I am also an only child (in this household, at least). I'm not sure what it is, and I wasn't worried until around a month ago, but it's comforting knowing others go through something similar. But just know that whether it's schizophrenia or not, that doesn't make you less valid or less of a good person. Just monitor it to make sure it isn't an obsession.
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that is very interesting. that you for sharing. i would never talk to an inanimate object, only myself. i would pretend to be multiple people. like a lawyer talking to a judge. i would be both. or a friend discussing important stuff with another friend. i guess it was a way to cure my loneliness. but now it’s turned into something where i pace for hours and hours a day with a whole storyline in my head. just whispering to myself and acting out scenes. like my own personal movie. i know that this is just MDD, but what if it turns into something more? i’m not afraid of having schizophrenia. i’m afraid of what it’ll bring to me. hallucinations.. and the expenses of medicene i’ll have to take. thank you for replying to my post, and thank you for sharing.
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@MakeAChange That’s exactly what I do!! The pacing, acting out scenes, making characters talk to one another!
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@MakeAChange Of course! And yes, that sounds EXACTLY like MDD down to the T!!! And your fears are valid. I used to have the same fears, with the hallucinations and things. But it'll all pan out. Trust in the universe. Please have an amazing evening or morning and hit me up if you ever need to chat, or need someone who will just sit and listen. :)
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@Eljaeee haha, ofc i know it’s mDD. i’ve had it for about 3 years now. and i’ve known for 3 years... but thank you. and i will! i promise <3
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@Alyosha have you considered that you might have Maladaptive daydreaming?
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@MakeAChange Yes! I participated in a research study about maladaptive daydream in people with OCD symptoms.
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May-August i get extremely medicated and start taking 150+ pills a month to maintain what at the time was being treated for bipolar and schizophrenia. i was too young to see my clinical record, and i assume they wouldn’t tell this to a minor, but it seems they believed whatever my issues really were—i was simply too young to get an accurate assessment. September-December the medication makes me completely apathetic and my loss of care for life brought back my irrational gimmicks and self-destructive tendencies. i, in a 4 month period, ruined every single relationship i had kept close to me. 2024. i was alone. i stopped taking my pills due to a loss of interest and excessive weight gaining but it made my intense emotions start to bite me again. this was the year my OCD had fully developed and by April, i was diagnosed after failing a risk-assessment. for a long period of time, i lived a meaningless, uneventful, isolated life. that year, i let my mental health take over all acts of my being. i got deep into philosophy, psychology, pathology, a lot of tv shows built around psychological dynamics—i was desperate to understand this parasite that seemed to destroy my life without any awareness. i never wanted it to take the years it did since i was initially that 13 year old boy, but i write this now with a simple truth—a truth i refused to let myself believe until recently. i can’t fix this. the more i feed into it, obsess over it—the more these issues are going to worsen. for years i wasted my days thinking i was trying everything i could and it just wasn’t working. i couldn’t accept the fact that i don’t control this, and despite being told that again and again—it never got through to me until i spent the last week not feeding into the OCD and emotional dysregulation, and for the first time, i didn’t find myself counting the seconds that passed me by. it might not mean that much for an outsider looking in, but since my OCD had fully developed—i would always be counting the seconds in the back of my head, not like 1231, 1232, 1233… but as a tick of a metronome that made me always aware of the time. the days where this wasn’t annoying, it was boring, which i ultimately hated more. i’m seeing a light i haven’t seen in years, and with it i keep reaching the same notion—i wish i didn’t waste so much of my life being miserable. i’m getting a psychological evaluation within the next month. i’ve been out of therapy for about a year now but i’m going in now looking to help myself. this is specifically for my emotional dysregulation. my current theories revolve around cluster B personality types, 1 of 4 including ASPD as i had mentioned earlier, albeit my bet is actually on BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder.) 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