Bella Mackie: ‘I was completely convinced that I was schizophrenic’

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Speaking to The Irish Times Women’s Podcast, Mackie says that an OCD diagnosis was never on her radar: “I just thought OCD was like, you know, touching the lights 15 times and washing your hands, so I really had no idea about it”.

The mental health condition can manifest in many ways, but for Mackie it sometimes took the form of “bizarre, weird or distressing” thoughts. “Wondering if I was real, if the world was a simulation. Were my parents robots? And that’s why I thought I had schizophrenia, because I thought this is psychotic,” she tells podcast presenter Róisín Ingle.

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Perfect example of why we shouldn’t self diagnose. Just let the pdoc figure it out and then we can get treated for the correct condition.

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I have this kind of OCD but I’m also schizophrenic

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Same, @Froge, same. It’s more than likely pure-o OCD. It runs in my family from all four sides, so my siblings and I suffer with it tremendously, though, one escaped out of four of us.

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Yeah, schizoeffective runs in my family also OCD, I have both. OCD is sometimes especially hard because of the intrusive thoughts :confused:

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