- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 4y
Schizophrenia ocd is a very common theme!!! It makes you doubt all of your senses and surroundings and it can be really scary. When I had it, one of my biggest compulsions was if I heard a sound I would ask others if they heard it too or I would try to figure out where the sound came from (to see if it was just in my head or not) but not checking helped me improve greatly! Sitting in the uncertainty helped and now when I think I saw something strange or heard something, I just think to myself “maybe, maybe not. I’m not going to figure this out right now” and I allow it to pass. I practice not caring to the thoughts and not attaching meaning
Thank you, Truley. It wasn’t my theme usually but I’ve been doing ERP so it seems to be attacking in new forms
It’s kind of funny looking back, I had written this when Google something was on my computer and talked to me (I didn’t know it could do that). It scared me half to death. I literally thought I was losing it. My husband found out I had a setting set that made the computer take in when I said something and ask questions kind of like Siri. You have to accept the uncertainty. I know it’s hard but each time you check you’re digging the hole deeper. Let it be.
I totally had this fear a couple years ago... and I would have to replay things over on movies or tv shows to make sure it wasn’t something that was just in my own head... like random noises or words. But it’s not schizophrenia and you don’t have it. It’s just the ocd, I promise!
How did you get over this ?
@artsygirl I actually just started getting better with it because of this app... knowing that this is not me or my thoughts and that it’s the OCD, and that people have the same things going on that I do. Just try to calm your mind with that
@Anniemxo1 Thank you .
How are you now??
This is currently my theme
I feel so much better not being on alert and checking. If I go schizo, I do. I have to accept uncertainty or I will be stuck forever. I learned it was a choice and each time I did the compulsion I was digging the hole deeper and making it more difficult to get out of. That isn't to say it is hard as hell sometimes.
@artsygirl Yes I am currently struggling. I am so hyper aware of noise now because of this especially when my fan is on. I work with my therapist to help but idk it’s so hard to believe It’s just ocd and anxiety ya know. Any advice to help overcome this would be so helpful
@Lilly2442! Keep doing the homework even if it scares you with your therapist. Don’t check. Simply allow.
@artsygirl Ugh yes I’m trying but every time I hear something I just get so anxious. It’s so hard to explain
@Lilly2442! You’re allowed to be anxious. You just can’t do a compulsion. Keep working with your therapist.
@artsygirl I appreciate you taking the time to respond back. I’m trying to not check where the noise came from and I’ll continue to not try. But honestly this theme is the worse. It’s nice to know people have experienced this theme but I just feel like I have it so bad from others that have experienced it. Hyper-vigilance-hyper awareness sucks so bad wouldn’t wish it upon anybody.
Hi guys! I had really bad harm ocd about 2 years ago and I went through therapy and eventually got really good at handling it when it would pop up. The other day, I was scrolling on TikTok and came across a girl talking about a guy who was presenting a lot of schizophrenic symptoms but no one paid attention and got him help, he was having a lot of delusions, hallucinating, thinking everyone was out to get him, thought he was Jesus and his dad was the president and ended up doing horrific things. The day after that, I was dealing with some work drama and had the thought of “what if all my coworkers are against me and trying to get me fired”. That really stressed me out, cause I don’t normally think about them like that and I went down a rabbit hole of thinking that was the beginning of me developing schizophrenia, ended up googling stuff all night, taking tests, crying and seeking reassurance. I had a thought the other day “your dad is the president”, this one didn’t stress me out as bad as I knew it was just the video I had seen and it was an intrusive thought about it, and I also didn’t believe it. Today I was with some friends and I got a prize at a place we went and it said “lonely” on it. I do have my moments of feeling lonely and this week has been specifically trying so I had a thought like “oh someone’s out to get me cause I got this”. I know this isn’t logical and it wouldn’t make sense to just randomly get it if someone was truly after me and it was just a stupid prize at a random place, anyone could’ve gotten it. Im just struggling a lot with schizophrenic OCD and thinking I’m in the pre stages of it. In my good moments, I don’t think I am at all and it was all just sparked from the video I watched but in my bad moments, these thoughts feel real!! They really stress me out and make me feel like I’m going to lose my mind causing me to lose my job/ end up in a psych hospital/ never live a normal life/ end up alone, never see me my loved ones/ hurt my loved ones. I just want to feel normal and not like I’m about to lose my mind and everything I care about. Please help!!! Anyone else going through something similar and can help me get through this!
I am so afraid of developing schizophrenia or completely snapping im always checking to see if im hearing voices or if im seeing things im always making sure that I really heard what I heard from people and not in my head.
So my ocd has been doing better, in the sense that I am able to resist compulsions, but the thoughts are still there. And I get so upset because some days I’m just constantly stuck in my own head. Like I went out to today with my mom, and for a solid hour I was spiraling. And my OCD has been trying to make it seem like this flare up is different, and that because things aren’t working out the way I want them to be regarding my recovery, that it’s not OCD and I’m just a crazy person. It causes me to just shut down and want to just go home. I get so upset that I want to cry. I get intrusive thoughts that something bad is gonna happen, or that something doesn’t feel right, and so it feels like I do something, anything, to make me feel better about it. I also can’t sleep in my own bed. I’m so afraid that I won’t fall asleep in it, and if I don’t sleep, I will go crazy. My thoughts are just so scary rn, I don’t know what to do. I don’t want anything bad to happen to me :(
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