Quote from Guest on December 29, 2020, 5:35 am
Quote from Guest on December 28, 2020, 1:30 am
Yes, I also struggled with this theme. You do have to stop caring If you have schizophrenia or not. If you truly had schizophrenia, you would not be questioning if you did. You wouldn't think that you did and you would think that you were normal.
I did ERP exercises that included watching YouTube videos of people having psychosis or psychotic breaks while using hook statements. "Maybe I do have schizophrenia, maybe I don't". Guess I'll deal with it if that happens.
I would also try to use humor with it. Yep, im getting schizophrenia.. thats a good one OCD. Let's see it happen then. Oh... not today? Maybe tomorrow then.
You can also try doing ERP with setting volume different all over your house to mimic hearing voices while using hook statements.
Right now it is very very annoying, I keep getting pictures in my head and then begin to think is that a hallucination and get it gets me very very afraid to the point that I just sit home and just play PC or watch movies or whatever to keep my head away from these thoughts, last night I got an image in my head that my wife would turn into a monster/demon (I know it's really stupid) and then I begin thinking is this an hallucination or is it just a thought/image, if I'm not hallucinating, will I start hallucinating etc etc etc. This is my new thing, because this is what my brain sees as the closest thing to being psychotic.
I've had a looot of themes throughout 15 years but this has been the most annoying so far, because 5 psychiatrists told me that I dont have any psychotic issue and I'm just anxious but my brain just won't understand, this has been going on for 2.5 years now.
I am very afraid to watch youtube videos with people having a psychosis because I'm afraid I will try to mimic it.