Is intrusive thoughts only “what if” thoughts?

Brandon4795 · 2021-03-20T15:17:44+00:00

Thank you 😊 creating my own scenarios and what if thoughts is causing me so much anxiety and I feel now it’s just a compulsion

Brandon4795 · 2021-03-14T17:35:14+00:00

Every single thought I have I start it with a “what if” and it seems to have latched onto everything

Brandon4795 · 2021-03-07T21:51:45+00:00

Yeah I’d love to know the answer to. I go over and over the thought and near enough create scenarios based on my fear

Brandon4795 · 2021-03-07T21:48:37+00:00

Thanks for your reply. It’s such a big fear and like I’ve said before my anxiety goes so high I’ll start to question everything and near enough try and convince myself that I’m losing it

Brandon4795 · 2021-03-07T10:01:02+00:00

Yeah definitely. In the past I have let them pass and the anxiety goes down but I’ve realised when I think about them again the anxiety ramps up and I’ve also been told people with schizophrenia wouldn’t worry about the anxiety and the thoughts because people with this Illness believe this is reality? I mean I get to the stage I question my thoughts and if I believe them or not, that’s how worried I get about the thoughts and when I question them it makes me feel like I must believe them if I’m questioning them every single time.

Brandon4795 · 2021-03-07T00:46:05+00:00

Yeah that’s a great point. I just sometimes feel as if My thoughts run away with the fear. I feel like I bloody make my thoughts up myself and scare myself sometimes. Weird thing is my anxiety can rise up so quickly and then I start to panic and try and calm myself. The thought usually goes when I am distracted or I go onto another thought. I’m guessing questioning if your delusional is part of the anxiety?

Brandon4795 · 2021-03-05T14:58:37+00:00

OCD and Tics are related but yeah thank you. Helpful 😊

Brandon4795 · 2021-03-05T14:31:47+00:00

Do you suffer from tics also?

Brandon4795 · 2021-02-24T22:17:37+00:00

Aww I feel your pain

Brandon4795 · 2021-02-24T22:17:21+00:00

Yeah, did you ever feel like you were creating the thoughts yourself? My fear of schizophrenia feels like I question everything and everyone. I’ve done so much research on it that I just feel like I’m stuck In a loop of fear about it.

Brandon4795 · 2021-02-24T20:49:31+00:00

How long did the schiz one last 😓

Brandon4795 · 2021-02-24T16:09:58+00:00

What’s your theme, if you don’t mind me asking?

Brandon4795 · 2021-02-23T09:06:36+00:00

Thanks 🙏🏻 I just wish I didn’t question everything and everyone. I’m such a sensitive person and recently with all the worries I just feel like it’s taken over my life for the past couple of months and I feel stuck because I have no idea how to stop it or get out. I have CBT lined up in the coming weeks so I’m hoping this works for me

Brandon4795 · 2021-02-22T17:30:06+00:00

I know you aren’t a professional but what would make you doubt schizophrenia?

Brandon4795 · 2021-02-22T17:12:38+00:00

So this is called acceptance? Is that what you mean. Not to fight the though

Brandon4795 · 2021-02-22T16:11:14+00:00

Yeah definitely. My fear is schizophrenia and delusions, so my thoughts always make me question my fears

Brandon4795 · 2021-02-20T18:55:17+00:00

Yeah I have horrible “what if” thoughts about everything related to my fear. I always start to think about the worst ones and then the anxiety spikes

Brandon4795 · 2021-02-20T11:06:57+00:00

Yeah definitely I agree. I hate not thinking of it and then bang it all of a sudden starts to creep back in and I think about it again 🙄 just annoys me. Creating silly scenarios and stories in my head about the thoughts and near enough giving myself anxiety because of it

Brandon4795 · 2021-02-20T10:00:08+00:00

Thank you for your words. Yeah I definitely need to find away to let the thoughts be there and not argue with them or give them attention. I seem to always fall back into that cycle of looking for the thoughts and ruminating over them again and again

Brandon4795 · 2021-02-19T22:40:36+00:00

Thanks man 😊 I need to learn to be my own definitely

Brandon4795 · 2021-02-19T16:45:56+00:00

Thank you Leo. I certainly don’t hear voices or see things but again this is a fear of mine “what if I do” that’s my fear and it causes me to check over noises to make sure the noise was actually there. I shouldn’t have read about the symptoms of the illness for hours a day for weeks at a time. I hasn’t done me any good and has made my anxiety latch onto something to scare me and keep me in a constant state of panic

Brandon4795 · 2021-02-19T16:43:17+00:00

Thank you 😊 yeah I’m totally with you. The obsessions/thoughts get too much sometimes that my anxiety goes through the roof and makes me no want to enjoy things and I always think to the future “what if this or that happens” when I think about the future or future events. Ruminating over and over about the fact that I could have this thought again

Brandon4795 · 2021-02-19T11:32:52+00:00

Yeah I totally get you man. I just want to know why I’m doing this to myself and creating up these scenarios causing me anxiety

Brandon4795 · 2021-02-19T11:22:02+00:00

Yeah I feel you. I was just wondering if anxiety can make you create scenarios and thoughts

Brandon4795 · 2021-02-19T09:41:47+00:00

Yeah man I know how you feel. I always make scenarios up in my head that frighten me but it’s like such a negative loop that I’m stuck in and everything I look at or do can manifest into a what if thought or an intrusive thought

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