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- Messa
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- 3y ago
I think the hearing voices while falling asleep and waking up is called, (a really scary name) but "exploding head syndrome". It's named after the common loud banging or gunshot some people hear from it, but from the research I've done it isn't related to any underlying health issues. I deal with that too, I've heard my family have entire conversations about leaving me behind if I don't wake up but when I get up, everyone's asleep. I'm sorry you're dealing with this though, the stress that comes with ocd is unfair.
Oh my that does sound scary!
I also think so much my body kind of lives in auto pilot.. I’m so in my head I will do three tasks and literally wonder how or what I did.
This is exactly how I have felt for my whole life. I am only used to ruminations and as hard as I don’t try, I guess you could say, I cannot seem to free myself, right now as my medication had been lifted higher, I am literally watching my ruminating imbalance slow itself down owing to the meds, whilst I simultaneously still feel the utter need to ruminate even though I am supposed to know it is irrational. It truly does take the irrational train of thought and take it to a sense of insanity thinking. And that is another I worry about, will I be ‘crazy’ all my life because of this? I have watched friends and family and my girlfriend go about their day while I beg my mind to stop ruminating. It’s torture and I feel for all of you
This is exactly how I feel
I woke up in a panic this am
This is exactly what I’m feeling down to a T. I feel this way and I hear voices of like cartoon characters that I’m watching because I’m so into the show and it only happens as I’m waking up slowly or if I’m falling asleep but it does not happen during the day. And it even gets to the point where I stare at objects during the day to see if they’ll talk to me because I am so obsessed with thinking I’m schizophrenic or the fear of becoming schizophrenic. I even asked my normal therapist a couple years ago if I was and she kind of giggled and said no you don’t have any symptoms or any signs that you are schizophrenic and she has seen me for 15 years now. I have also experienced hearing my family members Have random conversations and it’s nothing bad or it’s nothing evil it’s just they’re having conversations it’s very weird. But you are not alone what you wrote is exactly what I have been dealing with lately it’s kind of comforting to know that I’m not alone and that it is OCD.
Do you hear family members voices and conversations like when you first wake up or falling asleep? Or all the time
@Messa Just waking up and falling asleep
@Hazel It definitely does help knowing someone else can relate! How old are you by the way? Sorry if that’s personal. I’m 23, I just also deal with being in the stage where I guess it’s “common”.. and it makes me more nervous. I hate this OCD theme :((
@Messa It is isn’t it! Helps you feel like you’re not alone and or crazy. I am 30 and no you’re ok I’m a open book :)
@Hazel I think you have to be an open book with this
@PoetART I am :)
Anybody struggle with thinking you have schizophrenia or are slowly developing it? Mine just kinda popped up out of the blue today. Idk why I have a sudden feeling that I might hear or see something that nobody else will hear or see. I just feel like I’m stuck in my own head and I might act out of impulse. It’s making me feel anxious, uncomfortable, and worried that something might be wrong with me. I even feel like covering my ears so I can calm myself down with some piece and quiet. Please tell me someone else knows what I’m talking about
Woke up this morning immediately looking for the thoughts that I’ve been having even though i don’t want to think about them. I feel like i ended up bringing them upon myself and then i had a super gruesome thought and have been worrying about it all morning. Is it possible to bring thoughts upon yourself? Is it ocd or is it just me? I’m just so scared of going “crazy” that i keep looking for thoughts deciding if it’s me or not if you know what i mean. It’s such a scary feeling When you feel like you don’t know who you are 😭 i literally am just petrified of completely losing sense of who i am and doing something bad and being locked away forever. Is it possible to just turn bad? Does anybody know what i mean by that? Like you secretly have a double ego and completely turn into somebody different? Does anyone else experience this? Is it ocd? I’m so scared i feel like i can never catch a break.
I’m wondering if anybody else deals with an intense inner dialogue. It seems like my thoughts overlap each other and sometimes don’t make sense. Whether it’s a song stuck in my head, a million thoughts at once or both. It seems to never stop, even my dreams are super vivid. More recently I’ve been noticing random words or sentences that somebody has said before that has no meaning to what I’m thinking about, it will just pop in my head for no reason. For example I’ll be in the shower and “hear” a sentence one of my friends said. It sounds like their voice but it’s just in my thoughts if that makes sense. My core fear is losing my mind, so this spirals and my ocd tries to convince me that I’m hearing voices. Can anyone relate? If so what are some things that you have found to be effective when it comes to staying present. I hate not being as involved in conversations or not giving my 100% attention to things happening around me
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