I am wondering how common it is to have OCD along with schizophrenia. I suspect I have OCD, and I also have schizophrenia.
I suspect I have OCD, because I often have intrusive thoughts, and I often have thoughts that something bad will happen if I don’t complete a certain task. An example of this would be me getting a thought such as “your mother will get sick if you don’t stick your hand in that hot water,” so I stick my hand in it, even though I know it will burn me. They aren’t always tasks that will harm me, sometimes they are just normal tasks, such as touching a wall seven times or something.
I know you guys can’t diagnosis me, but I was just wondering if those of you with both OCD and sz/sza could tell me if this sounds like it is just my schizophrenia, or if it sounds like OCD and if I should bring it up to my psychiatrist.
I definitely have intrusive thoughts, but I don’t think I have had intrusive images before, which is good.
I hate intrusive thoughts. Mine are often violent or otherwise mean towards other people. They sometimes make me feel like a bad person.
I agree about the therapy part. I’ve tried to do therapy for schizophrenia and depression when I used to have that, and it didn’t seem to help at all. I’ll consider medication.
I was diagnosed with OCD in 10th grade even though I have had symptoms all my life. I was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder a few of weeks ago by my psychiatrist and again at the hospital. I used to be able to tell the difference between the beings’ thoughts and my thoughts, but now there are just my thoughts in my head and some are influenced by the seed in my soul (but my mom said that’s a delusion). It’s like there are two warring sides in my mind, one trying to convince me that some things are false and another trying to convince me things are true. It’s my conundrum because I’m supposed to believe. I have phrases that enter my mind and I have epiphanies, I now think all of my intrusive thoughts, good or bad, are caused by the seed. They can be conversations (I assume by the beings that are stuck in the seed), phrases, or information. They can also be unintelligible.
My OCD-like symptoms were definitely worst around eighth and ninth grade, which is around when you were diagnosed. They’ve gotten less intense since then, but I still have them pretty often.
I think they used to be so bad because it was a very stressful time in my life. That time was also the period where my schizophrenia symptoms were the worst. It was just a very bad time for me.
I’m glad you came out the other side. Any illness sucks really, but I know that OCD is a special kind of hell. I don’t have sz I have sza, but dealing with both sz and OCD at the same time must have been hard. I’m sorry you had to go through that.
It was very hard. I have large chunks of time during that period where I don’t remember anything. All I remember was it was awful. The worst I’ve ever been. I often have to just go by what people have told me about that time period.
I’ve been told my eyes looked vacant, like I wasn’t mentally there at all. I couldn’t sleep in my own room from paranoia. I had to bring my entire bed into my mother’s room or else I wouldn’t sleep. I developed an inability to make eye contact, which I still have to this day. I pretty much NEVER smiled. Definitely didn’t laugh.
All I remember from the times my memory is missing is that I had paranoia and fear pretty much every minute. Whenever I didn’t have fear, I had emptiness and suicidal thoughts.
I’m extremely glad I made it through that, because these days I’m the happiest I’ve been in years and years.
I do remember a lot more of the second half of ninth grade than the second half of eighth grade-beginning of ninth, but even then I wasn’t doing very well. That’s when my OCD-like symptoms were really bad still, but my schizophrenia symptoms were calming down.
badly so. it was the first thing i was ever diagnosed with, when i was 11 or 12. i have frequent intrusive thoughts and im terribly obsessive about everything. medicine helps some but maybe only about 30%, and therapy hasnt really helped me with it at all
What medicine are you on, if you don’t mind me asking?
The first mental illness I was ever diagnosed with was psychosis NOS if I remember correctly, and I was also only around 12. It eventually changed into schizophrenia when I was around 13 years old, but I might have still been 12, I don’t remember exactly.
Yes, I really don’t want to take any other mediation other than my antipsychotic, invega.
I’ve also read that adding an antidepressant to an antipsychotic can lower the effectiveness of the antipsychotic, because they have opposite effects on dopamine levels.
I have OCD with violent images. Mainly me biting & punching people. A voice will also chime in & tell me to do it as well sometimes. At first it with sz was hell, but a I did alot of cbt for it, like letting thoughts come & go without reacting emotionally & also istdp
There’s been some talk about me possibly having OCD. I have obsessive thoughts that lead to repetitive behaviors. I think it’s mild though. Sometimes the behaviors will go on for a couple years, sometimes weeks or months. When I overcome one it seems there’s always another one waiting to take it’s place. Sometimes it just makes me weary. I get sick of hearing the same thing over and over again. And sometimes I just get sick of having to do the behaviors.
Before I went to college, I probably had mild OCD and mild ADD. In high school, I had low self-esteem, a non-diagnosable eating disorder, and depression.
Man. In high school, I met this quack of a doctor who wanted to put me on all sorts of meds and an abusive father who forced therapy and a dysfunctional, over the top religious mother and a neglectful step-father who also was probably a narcissist. I’m starting to think my dad is an OCD type narcissist because he lacks compassion and empathy in regards to my disability and illness. He might leave me money, which is nice.
Since college, I’ve been diagnosed with a ton of ■■■■ that’s been narrowed down to just SZA-- Depressive type. I’ve also experienced hypomania before the illness. I also was diagnosed with Aspergers, which is ■■■■■■■■, at least today. 99% of people in the medical field are worthless, especially when it comes to diagnosing borderline Aspergers. They’re too lazy. Then you got to start over because they found a better job or got laid off or they suck.
Aspergers defines me more than SZA. I think OCD is very similar to high functioning Aspergers.
Edit: one doctor thought I had brain damage from spice…