Besides delusions, hallucinations what type of phobias do you suffer from with sz?
I have several but the ones that control me the most is social phobia, anthropophobia, and mostly agoraphobia.
What are yours?
add another fear - nobody is there
I can’t ever shake the feeling that I’m being watched at all times. Also I think that most people where I live hate me for some reason. You can say those manifest as phobias of some kind.
Social phobia , agoraphobia ? (I can leave the house but am very limited as to where I’ll go without company), fear of heights(which is strange as I live on the 11th floor but I try not to look out of the window and downwards too much) , fear of emotional intimacy in case it leads to physical intimacy .
do either of you have pdoc you go to and do they ever talk to you about your phobias?
Mine wouldn’t ever address it. When I first started going to him, he just told me I needed to see a pychotherapist about it and then he continued to drug me up until I pretty much just slept and he didn’t have to talk to me at all.
Just wondering if anyone has gotten help with phobias and if that has help sz symptoms.
Not really. I mean I found a place that was free but they seem to rush you through without letting you talk that much. Because of my financial situation the being free part seems really important. I just have family members that constantly tell me that such thoughts are just paranoia and not true. Also I have what is probably the delusion that I’m being stalked and that my stalker is playing bass near my house to keep me up. There are times when I hear it but no one else can so this is most probably a delusion.
I have a feeling that most psychiatrists tend to rush you through. At least that is my experience with it. I had two that didn’t but one retired and I moved away from the other which was in D.C. It seems that that the older ones are more likely to listen to you. In fairness it is also because the ones that do rush you through seemed swamped with people.
there are times, I want to talk about it and I want to get well, and other times I feel I am the only one that is correct which I know is the delusion. When I had my breakdown, I wanted to talk to a therapist and went to one. She didn’t ask many questions and let me vent it out, but as soon as started talked about ‘real’ stuff for me with ‘voices’ and fear my boss was out to kill me, she clammed up and sent me to the psychiatrist.
The next therapist I went to asked way to many questions and by then my sz was full blown again. I couldn’t make out what he was saying and my thoughts were he was out to get me, my fear of leaving my house set in and that was end of that.
Have never had much help for the phobias.They took a back seat treatment wise as secondary problems.
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Have a phobia of crocodiles. Don’t really consider it an irrational fear think it’s rather sensible to be honest.
going offline for awhile- came here and said site was down or something and said to go to @discourse which said they were having DDOS attacks or something - freaking out…
My therapist has me working on DBT and opposite action. Basically if you are afraid of going to the grocery store at 6pm, you go to the store at 6pm and over time this reduces your fear.
Needles although I had therapy for that, but I will only do my bloodwork once a year as I have tactile hallucinations afterwards of my blood being taken.
A fear of heights, like the voices tell me to jump and I get the feeling of jumping off if I walk across a bridge and I get vertigo as well!
I’ve had pharmacophobia - the fear of swallowing pills - my whole life, long before schizophrenia. I also have a mild fear of heights, but not exactly a phobia.
I have a fear of roller coaster rides. I can’t go on them.
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Me too!! And heights, I hate them, I fear for myself and others too, just hate them.