TW Anyone else has this obsession about having schizophrenia or different mental illnesses

Me, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, psychosis, narcissism.

I saw in a recent post you mentioned that you did a compulsion and it increased your distress. I'm concerned that this may be another one. If you're asking this question to prove to yourself that fearing other illnesses is OCD and not a sign of something else being wrong, the question is probably a reassurance compulsion. Here's a chart that outlines the difference between reassurance and information seeking https://iocdf.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/18-Information-seekers-vs-reassurance-seekers.pdf You've determined that other people have similar fears. Now, it's time to direct the conversation towards effective ways to respond to those fears. Knowing that you aren't alone feels good. It reduces shame. However it does very little to actually help you learn to respond to fears more effectively.

I’ve had this before. It comes and goes. Especially struggle with paranoid schizophrenia or bipolar. Sometimes my obsessions/visual images with my OCD seem so real I feel as though I must be out of my mind. It’s easy for me to immediately go to the worst case scenario “I’m going crazy”. I know that term can be seen as offensive within mental health, but it’s exactly how I feel...”I’m losing my mind” feeling. I often have to remind myself “these thoughts are there but I know they’re present and I know this is my OCD getting the best of my rational mind.” Either way, this is for sure a struggle for me and I completely understand it.