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@ilovestars hope it helps! It's a real kick in the ass to find yourself questioning basic experience, but when it comes down to it, one of the main things I have to do now is to just shrug and say "huh, maybe so" to any kind of experience like what you describe. It's hard to do, but it helps to break the circle, so to speak
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Call it Schizo but anyone can imagine things. Work on mind awareness and humor and whatever you think you’ll see will have a much lighter effect than such a fearful anxious one.
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You can always get therapy and tell them everything your experiencing but I promise if it’s schizo or not don’t think your so different or crazy because everyone is capable of such delusions. Trust me :)
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Absolutely have had this fear and roughly similar manifestations of it, though I focused on auditory stuff moreso. Like I would listen to the silence intensely closely to make sure I couldn't hear anything that wasn't there. It's a particularly nasty manifestation of ocd in my opinion. Made me concerned that I'd lose my mind and lose my self control and hurt myself or someone. The two best things I can think of are that a) remember that your ability to be concerned about it and differentiate your fears from reality is important. That's called insight, and it's typically very lacking in schizophrenia. And b) don't think that you're ever going to achieve certainty that you don't have schizophrenia or other illnesses. I'm certainly not sure that I'm not schizophrenic. Can't ever really be. The main thing to be aware of is that certainty is elusive and will drive you into internet research, circular reasoning, and is ultimately a trap.
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I think that the word Schizo feels scary and that you should see the symptoms and study of Schizo as just like another annoying horrible mental disorder #OCD. The fear is like SHIT am I thinking this IT MEANS IM SCHIZO ...that’s what the problem is right now. Worry less about what you think you are and focus on starting general steps and then you can freely get treated and work with what’s happening in the mind JUST like me and everyone on here. There’s no app called schizophrenia that you suddenly belong too hahah we with OCD vent on crazy scary shit too. Just know you’re not alone whatever you may think it be :)
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@ilovestars everyone’s fear of SCHIZOFRANIA is because we smart people know that’s the “worst of the worst” and if you go there “there’s not coming back”...ummm welcome to every other type of mental illness because the fear of being trapped and stuck forever falls within all of them. The development of Schizo is just another level of delusion but just like another level of OCD Story delusions the more you feed it the worse it will become BUT the less you give in the more free you will be. Trust
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My therapist told me I wasn’t because people that are don’t realize the delusions are fake but it still scares me because I’ve been having such bad ocd that I’m Schizo so idk if that’s why the image popped up
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@Hg27 it’s horrible! Like I know I’m not seeing things but the fact that I saw that for a quick second really freaked me out. Now I keep trying to see if I’ll see something. I can’t believe how ocd manifests like this it’s insane. But I can definitely relate with how you’re feeling! Thank you so much for your insight :)
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@JohnSmith98 you’re right! Thank you!
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@JohnSmith98 Definitely, it just feels so scary and real because it feeds into whatever your fear it
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@Hg27 I need to do that! This was the first time I ever “saw something” so it really scared the crap out of me but I know it’s not real. Thanks!
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I have this form of ocd too
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It’s the worst
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I have been having these fears about developing schizophrenia, it reached a point where i am starting to almost hear things or the smallest sounds and my mind tells me you're schizophrenic, and i feel this weird sensations in my ear as if someone is whispering yet i can barely hear them, the thing is i am not diagnosed yet because i never work with an OCD therapist but i study psychology so i just used what i learnt to give a meaning to my suffering, many themes of this fear have been happening before and this schizophrenia fear is the last one. I want to know what advice you can give me or ways to make my brain calm down a little bit, i also don't have and can't afford a therapist that's why i am here in the first place I also want to know more informations or experiences with this theme if anyone habe experienced it and what helped you with it I remember feeling better for a while but than i collapsed back, but i am hoping to get better soon too or anytime in the future, I don't want reassurance so make sure you be as real as you can, and thanks 🙏🏻
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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!
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I had experienced a few instances where I am about to fall asleep or waking up and I will hear something from a previous conversation no matter how long the time. For example, on time I heard in my head my daughter say mom or another time internally the laugh of my husband's friend, etc. It led me to research which was my biggest mistake because although I read that it could be hypnagogic hallucinations and could stem from anxiety or stress and disrupted sleeping patterns which I currently have all of those, As I continued reading I saw that it can be seen with patients that have schizophrenia as well and my mind went into full panic mode, now I am in crippling fear that I have it or psychosis and am worried I will start to hear things and hallucinate, etc. to the point where I now hear ringing in my ears and it has caused my anxiety to fully spike again. Anyone else experience something similar?
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