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I suffer with these same obsessions, and they are trying to take over my life. The thing my therapist always tells me is that no matter what, you are always in the pilot seat and in control. If you were having psychosis you wouldn’t know it and the fact that you are scared of losing control shows that you have it. As long as the fear of psychosis exists in your mind, then essentially you do not have it. I hope this helps, it’s a really tough form of ocd I’ve found, but we will absolutely get through this :)
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- 3y ago
Thank you. It’s the worst OCD obsession because I am just terrified of losing control of myself or losing myself but I know that those fears have nothing to do with psychosis but sometimes it just feels so real you know?
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- 3y ago
Please remember that OCD will try and make you believe ANYTHINT! Sit with the thoughts….so what if you have psychosis? There is treatment for that as well.
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- 3y ago
I know I just get scared because one of my main fears is my life being ruined or I find out I’m hiding something from myself. This happened with transocd and POCD I was just terrified of my life being ruinedz
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- 3y ago
@anonnnnn I know exactly what you mean. I suffer from the same theme. But this is exactly what OCD wants.
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- 3y ago
Fears that you are psychotic is evidence that you're not. Try to let the thoughts pass and realize the common factor in all of our fears is the fear itself, the OCD itself. The target of the fear changes but the irrational thoughts are the same. For what it's worth, I am part of the small % of people who have experienced psychosis and I still never fully lost control and there are medications and therapies that help you recover. This too shall pass.
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- 25w ago
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tw / this theme is literally ruining my life. I can’t get a moments peace, all the symptoms I have feel so real and googling the symptoms caused more to show up and it’s so scary now. I don’t know what to do. I feel like I might actually have it and I’m so scared. nothing is helping. I’m going to be stuck in this theme forever or actually become psychotic or schizophrenic. I don’t know what to do anymore. I’m over analyzing every little symptom as possible schizophrenia, and no matter how many times people tell me “crazy people don’t know they’re crazy”, my ocd still has me convinced I have it or I’m developing it. I’m so, so sick of my anxiety and ocd. I don’t know what to do anymore. I feel trapped. these are just some of my symptoms: - Almost constantly seeing something out of the corner of my eye, shadows/figures/moving, etc. - Difficulty concentrating. - Newer symptom - difficulty talking (more frequent pauses in talking, forgetting what I was saying, struggling to find words, struggling to form sentences for a minute before I figure it out) - Extremely stressed and anxious almost at all times. - Extreme fear of losing my mind - Occasional feeling of impending doom - Forgetfulness (easily forgetting what I was saying/doing or what I was going to say/do) - Constantly pausing or rewinding videos/TV to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating the sound. - Occasional thoughts of “is this real?” “What if I’m actually just dreaming?” “Am I hallucinating all of this?” type of thing. - Difficulty getting to sleep, every night I don’t sleep until like 1-2 a.m. when I inevitably can’t keep my eyes open anymore and pass out, frequently wake up throughout the night Side note on this one: I’m afraid to sleep due to my OCD convincing me that something will happen in my sleep or I’ll sleepwalk or something like that. - Dissociation/zoning out - Almost always tired/yawning/exhausted/heavy eye feeling - Lack of interest in hobbies/shows/etc I’m so, so tired. I feel so hopeless and like my worst fears are actually coming true. Googling schizophrenia and psychosis just caused more symptoms and now I feel miserable. I wish I didn’t have to worry about this. I wish I could live happily and carefree. all of this venting and still nothing seems to help. Nothings helping. I’m just going to be stuck like this forever. I want to cry, I want to break down. I’m sick of living in fear. I’m sick of questioning my sanity. Now I’m spiraling that maybe I am schizophrenic or psychotic and this is just the beginning and it’s just going to get worse from here and I’ll end up losing myself and my mind/sanity. What if I lose the ones I love around me because they can’t stand me anymore. Im worried im not going to be myself anymore and im never going to recover and its just going to get worse.
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