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I’m currently suffering badly with this theme.. along with paranoia fears, and maybe any other mental illness that’s more ‘severe’. Wondering if conversations in my head mean I’m having people talk to each other in my head, wondering about my inner voice, wondering if the antibiotics I’m taking are triggering paranoia... i don’t know what to do anymore. It seems obsessive rather than schizophrenic but I still have so much fear!!
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I still think about it occasionally, and sometimes I freak myself out, but I typically come to this conclusion; it is, what it is. I had similar thoughts, I also became very apparent of my surroundings, what I was seeing, what I was hearing, and what I was thinking. I was trying to find specific things to justify my fears. I mean shit I still am bothered by it. But at the end of the day, just accepting that you don’t know if or when it can happen has just giving me a weird zen. Don’t get me wrong I still think and worry about it, but like anything related to OCD, everything we think of is closely observed and very much criticized. I started with Harm OCD (still do), POCD, and now Schitzo (Health) OCD. OCD is a Pain in the butt. You got this!
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I’m dealing with almost all of these now. I can’t stop checking to see if the things I see out of the corner of my eye are actually there. I can’t stop doing it because it happens to instantaneously!! How do I stopp?
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Do you get the thoughts of the different kind of symptoms and start worrying about if you have schizophrenia?
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@Jerry Yep I do. Working on my imaginal exposures now for it
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@Ellie0630 Likewise, it’s a pain in the butt. But I wish us both luck!
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Honestly, people like your family member is why it’s so hard to talk about mental illness. :( hang in there - a good way to get over your compulsions is to slowly limit them over time. Eventually it will get easier at least.
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I know this is an old post, but do you still deal with these symptoms? Thank you also for sharing... your post seriously helped me tonight.
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How are you guys? I’m going through this
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Hey, still occasionally dealing with it, but I keep telling myself, it is what it is. That attitude has helped me work through it and well it’s a good exposure at the same time. It allows the uncertainty.
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Hi this is my current fear .. everything u described I do! I just can’t get over it .. to the point I tell myself what I really do have this what if I really do hear voices.. I’m just really trying soooo hard
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It’s a pain in the butt, mainly because just like OCD it’s completely involuntary, unless street drugs play a roll.
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@Jerry Nope never did any drugs I’ve always had health anxiety always think something is wrong w me.. now I’m currently facing this fear fear of schizo it’s been 2months.. I’ve a seen a psychiatrist and doing therapy man it sucks.. I tried to erp and I was good for a minute for idk it’s just hard .. makes me feel like what I do schizophrenia and not ocd because I’m constantly obsessing over it why am I so infatuated on it
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@ bp224 I agree, I do that too sometimes. Between that and HarmOCD are my reoccurring themes. Keep working towards the ERP and with a OCD therapist. It helps the longer you continue with it!
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@Jerry When you were scared of it did u feel live u developed symptoms of it
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@ bp224 More so scare of developing symptoms, so much that I would be over observant
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@Jerry Same
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@Jerry Did meds help u
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@ bp224 I mean meds help with the aniexty but nothing else really. Meds in my experience doesn’t stop the ocd thoughts
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@Jerry I just want too stop obsessing over it so much .. I tried erp watching videos and it caused so much anxiety.. like today I seen someone on top of a building maybe working ? But Usually I’ll pull my find out to insure it was really real and because I didn’t this time all I can think about is was that a hallucination or really real .. it’s killing me that’s all I can think about ?
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@ bp224 That’s how obsessed I am I will chase the sounds
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@ bp224 I suggest you continue with ERP.. that’s the best way to help with the intrusive thoughts. I don’t want to reassure you either, because that won’t help. It just gives temporary comfort. Are you talking with a therapist?
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@Jerry Yes .. also just joined a ocd support group ..
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@ bp224 Good! That’s great then! It gets better! It’s hard but it’s gets better!
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@Jerry As someone who’s going through this right now I can say it gets better too. I took meds had a bad reaction so I quit. You can go through erp. But the biggest biggest thing here is cutting out compulsions. Live with uncertainty. Do things you would do if you didn’t have ocd. It gets better. I’m typing this as I’m alone in my room. I couldn’t be alone a month ago. I couldn’t shower without my gf over fear I would somehow hallucinate if someone wasn’t with me. Ridiculous I know but nothing about ocd isn’t ridiculous. Start by stopping your research and reassurance. Accept the weird things/thoughts and try you best to live what you think a normal life is. I was at a point where I was questioning if some guy that walked by me was a hallucination. Everything I heard must’ve been a hallucination too. But it wasn’t. It hasn’t been yet and I can’t control if it ever will be. I’m still recovering so it’s hard to remind myself of all of these things but it’s part of recovery. Meds can help take the edge of anxiety off but it will always be up to you to put In the work to be able to handle intrusive thoughts. It’s entirely possible.
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@lulu23 You can see I posted on this very thread 53 days ago because I was severely obssessed with this theme. It’s was one of many but top 2 in terms of fear.
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@lulu23 Wow you described me so well! I’m so scared I haven’t been home I’ve been sleeping at my moms literally with her because of strong of a fear this is.. today I seen something on top of a building and I didn’t take a picture of it and it’s killing me inside as all I can think of is rather or not it was a hallucination it’s really eating me alive that I can’t go back in time . I even had thought about driving back pass the building
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@lulu23 That was awesome! Thanks for telling me that. I seriously appreciate it! I agree, the hardest thing to stop is the comoulsion/reassuring seeking
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@ bp224 Ocd wants you to drive back and check. Anything ocd wants you to do don’t do it. Stay strong guys we can get through this shit stronger than we were before it happened.
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@lulu23 Last comment, repeating what I’ve said here already. I can’t stress this enough!!! Resist compulsions. Stop checking stop asking you loved ones if they heard that noise too. Coming from someone who feared every noise and every person it gets better if you stop compulsions. Compulsions aren’t always physical either.
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@lulu23 Yeah it’s really killing me that I couldn’t reassure myself and now I’m stuck with the if ..
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@lulu23 Yeah I’m trying so hard I realize it’s making this a lot harder
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You are amazing and so brave! Sending lots of love
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that was a huge theme for me in high school. i was horrified to be a “violent” or “crazy” person. i remember i wouldn’t listen to a cd that a friend gave me, because a friend of hers had listened to it, and that person was mentally ill. if i listened to the cd i was sure that their schizophrenia would seep into me and i my life would be ruined. it’s little things like that. everything you describe is ocd, and non of it is schizophrenia. people without mental illness experience hallucinations of all varieties, the brain can be tricked! if something like that happens, it’s not proof that you are “crazy” that’s for sure. i’m sorry about your family though. i think that when you make a joke and they comment negatively, that you tell them what you’ve said here. that joking helps you take yourself less seriously, and makes you feel better. it can be a useful tool!
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Yes. Do not worry, because if you really had schizophrenia, you wouldn't have been able to write such a post.
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god i feel this so much :( i know it’s been a while but how’re you doing? i struggle with this more than anything, and it’s extremely difficult. i even physically feel it sometimes it’s so strange.
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This.
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These are some of my experiences with some theatrical flare to better depict how it feels. I decided to share this because when I saw this community I suddenly felt less alone in more human. Lovecraftian door Lurker: I don’t know the subtypes so I’ll just be talking about my relationship with OCD. OCD! that lonely woman in the ocean singing your praise's, sure she’ll love you forever! Of course she isn’t a siren planning on dragging you to the depths and tearing you to shreds. OCD! that haunting whisper in the wind calling you to fly! fly! OCD! that Lovecraftian abomination chanting at you from behind a locked door. Banging demanding you bow to it’s will. For me it latches on to my trauma and PTSD circling them like some demented teacup ride. A daily occurance for me is recalling the day I died when I was like 6 i remeber each detail of the day the kids i met the activtes we particapated in, the heat. The height of the slide before i plummeted to my death. This day consumes my life. “Thud thud!” I ask my parents about it often they tell me it never happened i tell them they weren’t there. Each time they lie and say I’ve never told them. My boyfriend whom I’ve been with for three years hears the story offten and often deals with me asking him if he’s seen me ask my parents. “Thud Thud” Each time he says yes and I asked how they responded “like you’ve never told them.” I constantly become afraid that my boyfreind will drown because he can’t swim. “Thud! Thud!” and because he can’t swim that the car will go off the road into some body of water and he will die. ”Thud! Thud!” I feel the water filling my lungs turning them into fire, the fear of reaching out my hands with no aid. “THUD! THUD! And he will die alone too and there’s nothing you can do to stop it! THUD THUD!” I scream that same fire fueling my rage my tears running down my face like gasoline igniting the thought spiral further burning deeper into my self hatred. I scream again banging my hands on my head. Wish and hoping it will shut up the thoughts.“why? Why?! WHY!” Sobbing until I’m nothing but a puddle. . . Ya know a few months ago I was depressed the thoughts became too much, so I wanted to get high. I thought it would make them stop “Thud! Thud!” So I took a gummy it was unpackage, from a friend of a friend so now the word dog, in reference to a person is a permit part of my vocabulary. And I have memories from being in a comma because it turned out to be DMT and my 6 hour trip end up feeling like 6 months of HELL. The ocd thoughts that i usually see, in a flash became so real that i just cried for hour terrified i was stabbing my eyes out dead and this was my purgatory for leaving the church. ”Thud! THUD!” I stopped using my favorite water bottle after that. Before the incident The bottle up against the wall with the straw to the side of the wall because the thought that would repeat in my head would be that because of my clumsiness I would trip and fall onto the straw and it would stab my eye out and kill me. I had this thought often I kept look up what to do if you accidently get something stab/stuck in your eye. “Thud! Thud!”
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I few years ago, I did self-harm a few times, and then I got super into spirituality, and about a year ago, I remembered I did self-harm and ever since haven't been able to shake the guilt off... Constantly, every day, my mind would make me feel guilty about it and think about it all day. It's like my brain knew the thought that I could/ have cut myself scared me, so it kept bringing it up. My family had no idea I had ever done this, so my OCD told me I was a liar for not telling them about every day. I was afraid that they wouldn't love me anymore and send me to a mental hospital if I told them. About 2-3 months ago, I had gotten so fed up with having these thoughts every day and confessed to my mom what I had done, and her reaction was great. And I thought I'd never have thoughts about when I did self-harm again because I finally confessed. I was wrong. Even with people telling me that it's okay, I did that, I can't shake the guilt I had around this event, and even more so the fear/guilt around my own thoughts... My therapist and I talk about how the problem isn't the thoughts but what the OCD does to them. I try to create positive neural pathways, but that just makes me more stressed about it. There are things I'm supposed to tell myself when I feel negative, but I think I get that confused and tell myself those things every time I have thoughts about what I did. Which is feeding into a mental compulsion (replacing every "bad" thought with a "good" one. What works for me is (if I can) do nothing and have the thoughts... It's been hard to get better because I have had no idea what's been happening to me and felt like for the last year I was going crazy... I always thought OCD was cleaning stuff and physical compulsions . Everything that happened to me happened in my head. On the worst days when my OCD is really bad, every single time I was conscious and aware, I was thinking about the fact that I did self-harm. I would lie in bed all day trying to figure out my thoughts because I thought if I watched TV, I would be avoiding important things. I thought I had to figure out all my thoughts. I would ruminate, replay, and second-guess all. day. long. It was hard to recognize it was OCD because I thought I had done something seriously bad and wrong, and that I must deserve these thoughts. I think the trick is that you feel like you must have positive thoughts, and the most distressing thing wasn't necessarily the fact that I did self-harm, but the fact that I couldn't stop thinking about it. I find the best thing you can do is just have all your thoughts in your head and try not to separate them from good and bad, if you can. It's nice to have people who understand!!!! More to come, about the journey. My favorite thing to say when I'm stuck is "that sly devil... OCD. Silly OCD is getting to me right now, but it won't last forever. That sneaky guy tricked me again" Love you!!!
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So... I few years ago, I did self-harm a few times, and then I got super into spirituality, and about a year ago, I remembered I did self-harm and ever since haven't been able to shake the guilt off... Constantly, every day, my mind would make me feel guilty about it and think about it all day. It's like my brain knew the thought that I could/ have cut myself scared me, so it kept bringing it up. My family had no idea I had ever done this, so my OCD told me I was a liar for not telling them about every day. I was afraid that they wouldn't love me anymore and send me to a mental hospital if I told them. About 2-3 months ago, I had gotten so fed up with having these thoughts every day and confessed to my mom what I had done, and her reaction was great. And I thought I'd never have thoughts about when I did self-harm again because I finally confessed. I was wrong. Even with people telling me that it's okay, I did that, I can't shake the guilt I had around this event, and even more so the fear/guilt around my own thoughts... My therapist and I talk about how the problem isn't the thoughts but what the OCD does to them. I try to create positive neural pathways, but that just makes me more stressed about it. There are things I'm supposed to tell myself when I feel negative, but I think I get that confused and tell myself those things every time I have thoughts about what I did. Which is feeding into a mental compulsion (replacing every "bad" thought with a "good" one. What works for me is (if I can) do nothing and have the thoughts... It's been hard to get better because I have had no idea what's been happening to me and felt like for the last year I was going crazy... I always thought OCD was cleaning stuff and physical compulsions . Everything that happened to me happened in my head. On the worst days when my OCD is really bad, every single time I was conscious and aware, I was thinking about the fact that I did self-harm. I would lie in bed all day trying to figure out my thoughts because I thought if I watched TV, I would be avoiding important things. I thought I had to figure out all my thoughts. I would ruminate, replay, and second-guess all. day. long. It was hard to do any of the things I loved; OCD took the joy out of it. It was hard to recognize it was OCD because I thought I had done something seriously bad and wrong, and that I must deserve these thoughts. I think the trick is that you feel like you must have positive thoughts, and the most distressing thing wasn't necessarily the fact that I did self-harm, but the fact that I couldn't stop thinking about it. I find the best thing you can do is just have all your thoughts in your head and try not to separate them from good and bad, if you can. It's nice to have people who understand!!!! More to come, about the journey. My favorite thing to say when I'm stuck is "that sly devil... OCD. Silly OCD is getting to me right now, but it won't last forever. That sneaky guy tricked me again." Love you!!!
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