very scared, please help.

@Brooke cookie With my ocd right before I went to hospital when my ocd was the most intense it ever been . I was questioning reality and what is real. I had not slept for days and could not eat and was have a panic attacks nonstop. High levels of anxiety and stress from ocd can temporarily affect your brain and can make you kind of crazy. Lucky for ocd if you lower the stress levels and/or start sleeping and eating again your brain goes back to normal and you stop acting crazy.even if you don’t have ocd lowering your anxiety and stress levels will greatly help your head. Your brain is not made to run on high stress and anxiety all the time it get tired and starts having problems running properly. Please think about talking to a doctor about treatment so you get some relief and start to think straight again. Stay strong sorry you are having a hard time, mental illness really suck.

@Brooke cookie I definitely know their not real, and just in my head, which is something that i always keep in mind. My compulsions, and i hate to say it, are definitely reassurance or searching stuff online. Thank you so so much for this commentZ i relate alot.

@khloe!! I am sorry you are having really severe ocd right now. I highly recommend trying therapy or looking up how to try to cope with OCD at home. I recommend the  YouTube channel anxiety and OCD as a free source about beginning to treat OCD. Also being on Effexor a anxiety and depressant medication helped me greatly as well. I will pray for you I wish I could do more, I know ocd is painful

@khloe!! Hallucinations are scary and strangely real (I get hypnagogic hallucinations sometimes when falling asleep.) I don’t have schizophrenia, just anxiety & OCD. The fact that the image in your mind bothers you so much, is exactly what points to this being OCD. I firmly believe OCD is a form of distraction. Even when you hate the distraction.

Heya, you may need to get check for schizophrenia/schizo affective. You don't specifically have to have auditory/visual hallucinations although that is more common. If you feel like a danger to yourself or others, you also may need to look into admitting yourself to a mental hospital. They can be scary sometimes, but there they can also help to diagnose you for other things if you have them and give you the recourses you need. If you need to talk to someone, check out my profile.

@AugustDean You really think its schizo? I don’t actually see it, see it. Like i don’t see it infront of me, more just like in my head. I dont feel like im gonna harm anyone or myself either, its just these little things in my head that pop up and they give me crazy anxiety.

@khloe!! u can have hallucinations and not be schizophrenic(i think)? i have a similar thing where i see men in my peripherals. they rarely stay in my vision and it’s usually when i’m anxious and stressed. but it contributes to anxiety + paranoia. was prescribed risperidone for it

@khloe!! Don't take my word for it because I'm not a professional, but there is a couple possibilities. If it is schizo, depending on your age, it can start like what you described at a younger age and get worse as you get older It can also just be as you described. Everyone is different. It could be a couple other things as well Heck, it could just be anxiety. Depending on what's going on in your life right now, the kind of content you surround yourself with, and where your stress is. You could psych yourself out even worse sometimes, which will only make these things worse. I am schizophrenic and sometimes it comes off as what you described, other times it's things that I struggle to decipher if they're real or not, but I can go months to almost a year without having any issues, but then all the sudden I get really stressed/anxious or just watch things I shouldn't be, and next thing you know, I'm having pretty bad issues with hallucinations. Sometimes, it's just the feeling that something is right beside me or when I close my eyes, I think I see lots of faces. It's terrifying. The more worked up I get about it, the worse they get. I've learned a lot about schizophrenia but I don't know as much about the other things that it could be. I'm only more aware of bpd, autism, adhd, ed, and schizophrenia, so I apologize for that. Try not to work yourself up too much about it. Do breathing excercises, try to distract your thoughts with something else, maybe listen to music or watch a silly movie. Distractions are good. Not for too much consistency, but for helping with a good start of calming down. It'll be okay. You've got this

@lizard99 But, its in my head? ☹️ You know when you have an intrusive image and its in your head. Or you imagine something in your head, its like that, but its just things of those things. Thank you for the help though…

@lizard99 Man, I used to take resperidone for schizophrenia and a little with autism and that stuff made me fall over all the time. You're a champ. That one was way too strong for me. Then again, my body just does not like medicine, but I'm really glad that works for you. That's awesome

@AugustDean Thank you so much for the help. I am diagnosed ADHD, so im not sure if that means anything, and i have been going through really bad dissociation lately so im not sure. But thank you!!

@khloe!! Of course! It really could be countless things. Adhd could have something to do with it. Adhd can be a mental manifestation of restlessness, a result of your brain's unique self-regulation processes. Try not to think to hard on it though. It would definitely be better to talk to a professional about this but I know that can be really hard due to multiple things. Biggest thing, try to find things to ease your mind if it becomes too much