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Hi i winder how are you doing I have the same issues The schizophrenia ocd fear which made me litterelly read all about prodrome stage and ultra high risk people and how it would be turning delusional Yesterday i started the existing ocd sh** I started to obsses if i believe those thoughts about no one is real and none of their reassuring would benefit me because i obsses about even thier reality which make feel im going delusional I wonder what is going with you and if we can chat a little bit
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Hey there, i also struggle with wondering if anyone else is real along with a lot of other existential themes. let me know if u ever wanna talk
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@tarek kammar I struggle with this too, you arr not alone
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This is exactly what I'm fighting with. Honestly, I've been having to embrace the idea that I'm crazy so to speak and to keep saying "maybe, maybe not". I've also been on Zoloft for about a month.
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I’m been on Zoloft for a little bit as well. Do you find that you have any compulsions? Mine seem to just be avoiding the thoughts or trying to convince myself the world is real by reasoning it out
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- 3y ago
I am currently struggling with this exact thing actually. I've been having a hard time recently with adjusting back to normal life altogether and have been diagnosed with PTSD. I was recently triggered by the coming out of the Tesla bot and reading theories about AI. The goal I'm told is to be okay with uncertainty. This is super scary for me, but I've been through similar before. I don't have any tips other than talk to your therapist about this and you're not alone ❤
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René Descartes "I think there for I am"
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Reading this has been an exposure for you?
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This! I know it's an old thread, but I'm right there in it at the moment. It's hell.
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It’s so illogical, but your mind makes it real (no pun intended). Just need to keep going with “maybe, maybe not, accept uncertainty”.
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Really bad theme right now is death, I keep thinking about how one day or at any moment my heart will stop my brain will stop & my memories & everything I know will all fade away. It is giving me so much anxiety I’m only 18, but I realize it all happens to us it is bound, we are born to die. I know it’s a silly thing to be scared because it’s not helping the quality of my life worrying about it and even when I do die, I won’t care , if you don’t have a working brain then how can you care 🤷♀️. It is tainting my everyday life currently & honestly making me terribly depressed & it is giving me derealization & making me feel nihilistic, I’ll remind myself it’s okay but then with my ocd i don’t stop thinking and thinking about it and it’s seriously so hard to stay present in the moment because this thought just feels like I can’t scrub it away it’s miserable I struggle with religion, but I do pray to anything that’s out there possibly listening, because it is comforting, it just feels like this whole experience Is pointless & I am afraid of the unknown and what is to possibly happen but I’m subjected to it anyways so why should it matter
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