Do you think there is a link between ocd and psychosis?
if so, how do you handle it?
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Before i was diagnosed with psychosis they thought i had OCD because my insight was about 50/50
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I suffer with both SZA and OCD.
My obsessions become intense when I am going through psychosis.
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I think there’s a link.
I experience intrusive thoughts which is OCD however I feel like it almost goes hand and hand with psychosis.
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My son had pretty bad OCD when he was a child and an adolescent, and then as a young adult, he developed sz.
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Often psychotic people get very obsessed about their delusions.
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My hypomania is usually preceded by OCD. It is one of the warning sign that I watch out for. It snowballs pretty quickly, so I have to be very proactive to catch it before it becomes severe. When I can’t nip it in the bud, hypomania follows, and then I’m really up the creek without a paddle.
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A friend in the mental health field once said something I used to think as a child sounded like OCD. I am not diagnosed with OCD. I do sometimes feel I have to speak or say certain things to avoid going blank. I do often think about several things and speak at the same time though so that probably contributes to the blankness.
If anyone was wondering what I used to think as a kid it was if I spin around, when I get to the “place” I was before, it was actually a parallel universe and the only way to go back was to spin back the other way (as many times as you spun the first way). I said it was just magical thinking because I was told there had to be fear involved in OCD. I made a game out of it.
Mine manifests as a mild curiosity at first. I will fixate on this particular thing (I won’t say what- it is awful) and start casually browsing for it on the internet. From there, I start contacting people who have access to it just to satisfy my curiosity and see what’s available. Then I start trying to work out ways to buy it by rearranging my budget. Then I start looking at it all the time. I stay up all night and day looking for it on the internet, contacting people who have it, planning to get it. I can’t think of anything else. I HAVE to have it. Finally, I get it. I am appeased for a little while. Then, I get this horrible remorse for having gotten it, and I HAVE to sell it. I can’t bear to have it in my house anymore. I sell it for a huge discount compared to what I paid just so I can sell it quickly. Once it’s gone, I feel better.
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Can you get rid of ocd? or do you have to learn to live with it? What is the way to deal with it?
I don’t know if it ever really goes away. To me, it’s always been like plugging a hole in a dam that’s leaking water only to have a hole appear in a new place. When I manage to avoid the OCD that I mentioned above, I become obsessed with shopping and stay up all night looking at things to buy, and I eventually go on a shopping spree online.
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