[Wirebrandon91]

Alright so I really need help with this major setback that I've had and I can't get over it! So I've decided to just let it all out on how it happened, first off I've been dealing with anxiety since I had my first anxiety attack last January and ever since then I developed this huge fear of going crazy or having schizophrenia anything like that, I've done so much researched and googled so much I know everything about it and it's like it's imbedded in me I know all of the symptoms so it's like I'm constantly questioning everything. Well over the summer I started to get over the fear with advice I took and not letting myself be scared of it and from July till October I didn't have the fear I thought I was almost anxiety free, but that is when I had the major setback!

It started in October, I was watching this horror movie and I seen a guy kill someone and he didn't care at all about it and then I got the thought "could I do that" and that scared me so much! I dwelled on this for like a week and then I started to question myself like "do I actually think I could hurt someone" and whenever I did that it became so hard to answer it's like I didn't know what I thought?! But I read about violent intrusive thoughts and I got over that fear but I've always had the fear of having psychosis anything like that, but then one night I went to lay down I got a thought "what if someone going through my stuff" that freaked me totally out and then I told myself that's ridiculous and went to bed but when I woke up in the morning it was back again and just like the violent thought I started to question it too I would ask myself "do I actually think someone going through my stuff" and then it would just make me doubt myself so much and it would become so abstract that I didn't know what I thought about it again! So I started to fear that I was having delusions and made me so upset and since I know everything about schizophrenia it's like my imagination creates all these delusional thoughts to test myself to see if I actually believe this crap and of course I always ask myself "do you actually believe it" and it always becomes so hard to answer! Does anybody know what I'm talking about? Can anxiety make you question your beliefs and not know what you think? I've read all these threads about if I was actually delusional I wouldn't know it or like delusional ppl do not question their beliefs but it doesn't help! I'm always questioning myself! So are these just intrusive thoughts is that what they do? I really need your guys advice and reassurance I just need to get through this fear!

[medicalfox]

It sounds like really bad anxiety, but I would talk to a therapist about this situation.

I'm on the schizophrenic spectrum and I deal with delusions daily. I question some of my odd beliefs and symptoms/severity vary from person to person. I recommend posting this in the schizophrenia forum so you have the ability to get more answers about your situation.

[FrayedEnds]

my mind always knows exactly what buttons to push to get me worked up. just as soon as I get over one what-if-fear, I invent an even 'better' one. I have anxiety disorder and ocd and I blame either and both. It's hard to rationalize irrational thoughts. so I stopped trying to. and since I stopped trying to, the anxiety they caused lost most of it's steam and fizzled out.