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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.
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Oh my that does sound scary!
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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.
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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
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This is exactly how I feel
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I woke up in a panic this am
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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.
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Do you hear family members voices and conversations like when you first wake up or falling asleep? Or all the time
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@Messa Just waking up and falling asleep
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@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 :((
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@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 :)
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@Hazel I think you have to be an open book with this
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@PoetART I am :)
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So I've had OCD since I was a child. Like really young. The first intrusive thought I can remember was when I was 5. It just keeps getting worse and lately they've been making me physically ill or throwing me into extreme panic attacks again ( ones where I can't move my body ) the other night I thought God was trying to kill me because I was thinking about ending myself from OCD+ life issues but in reality I was just having a panic attack😭😭it affects me daily. It gets a little better with therapy but I don't see therapy coming into my life any time soon and I'm not even sure if I would want to go (for multiple reasons). To wrap this up if you have severe ocd can you tell me what it's like?? I don't want to label anything without proper research and hearing others perspectives. Thank you!! <3 (My profile says all of my subtypes if that helps any)
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My last and almost life long theme/sub-theme largely subsided recently and my ocd felt like it wasn’t even an issue. Then I went on winter break from uni and being alone made my mind come up with a whole new topic to obsess over. TLDR on my fears, my advisor wouldn’t email me back for a while about signing up for classes so my mind started to worry “what if he doesn’t in time and you can’t enroll this semester and you lose this whole life you just built and all these new friends” So when that issue was resolved my mind found other scarier ways I could be uprooted from my current life and friends that I’ve grown so attached to. Then my mind remembered back when I was struggling with false memories and scrupulosity and I essentially made a post on a forum 2 and a half years ago saying I did something or was convinced I did something that I never actually did. Now I’ve been spiraling about someone finding it reporting me and I either get seen as a horrible person or arrested or something over something I never actually did but “admitted” to out of fear of going to hell. My mind won’t let it go and keeps finding new reasons for it to be “valid” “logical” or even inevitable. I feel like it’s just hanging over my head and I can never rest easy. Especially when I try to focus on my daily tasks or plan for the future I get this horrible flair up of “why plan for the future when this could come back in that future and you get uprooted from all of it” my mind won’t rest without certainty being uprooted won’t happen but certainty doesn’t exist, at least not with ocd. This sucks and I miss being care free.
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I can't live with OCD anymore. It's ruining my life. I feel like I'm being constantly bullied in my own mind all day everyday. I don't know if what I think and feel is ever real or normal or okay, what is me and what is the OCD thoughts. I don't know if any of my experiences are normal. I'm exhausted from picking apart every single conversation I ever have with anyone until I'm strung out by a vague and ambiguous feeling of guilt. I'm tired of feeling like I'm a bad person and feeling scared all the time and not knowing why and having my brain spin me out on an endless spiralling train of thoughts that never goes anywhere and just makes me feel disconnected from everything and everyone around me. I don't know what I feel and if what I feel is normal or if anything I am doing is real and actually me or if I'm 'losing my mind.' I don't even know if this makes any sense. I get into these states of mind where every thought in my head and everything I feel and perceive makes me question my own sanity. I don't know if anyone likes me because I have absolutely no concept of what I am actually like. I feel completely lost and confused CONSTANTLY.
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