Various weird, worrying symptoms

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Mogwai Fan

Discussion Starter · Mar 1, 2013

Hey guys I did post something a bit similar a while back but some things feel a bit different.
Basically im concerned because lately:

-Ive been having weird paranoid/non logical thoughts that deep down I know arent true but feel persuasive and try to reel me in. These are often things that im am aware schizophrenics become deluded by, e.g the goverment are observing me < I know its not true at all but Its very hard to shake the idea and I start considering (not to a very serious degree).

- In the past few months Ive had some bad anxiety surrounding all the wierd thoughts/feelings and I really felt I was on the brink of insanity despite being able to live normally and do all the things I normally do. Now however Ive started to feel more normal about these symptoms and they dont worry me or feel wierd, this concerns me because I feel like this means im actually going crazy.

- I just feel like I have nothing much to say about anything, not like I dont want to talk to people because I enjoy having good conversations with friends and family but its just like I have strangely little to bring up at all and feel so empty and blank minded.

I just feel like im losing insight these things which gets me concerned about psychosis/schizophrenia and all that stuff. I say concerned because I dont actually feel worry or anxiety :/ I have no reaction to it at all I just have an awareness that these things are bad and that I dont really want them to happen. kinda like I dont care about anything at all right now and have the same reaction to pretty much everything.

Feedback would be so much appreciated. Thanks

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fresko123

· #2 · Mar 2, 2013 (Edited by Moderator)

I agree with Selig, schizophrenics truly believe these things without much question. And a lot of times it's family members or friends who notice the symptoms, not the actual person with the disorder because they're so out of touch that they don't know they've lost touch with reality. (I may or may not have done a little reading on the subject out of my own paranoid thoughts of having it, lol)

I've also experienced feeling more normal about my symptoms and I definitely get the blank mind thing, and I'm not nearly as talkative to the people around me as I used to be. But I just put that down as another phase in this thing I'm going through. It's just something to get over and it will get better in time.

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Aspire

· #3 · Mar 2, 2013

- I just feel like I have nothing much to say about anything, not like I dont want to talk to people because I enjoy having good conversations with friends and family but its just like I have strangely little to bring up at all and feel so empty and blank minded.

I can totally relate to this. It's very hard for me to start talking. I dunno why that is but I think it has to do because you're very dreamy and 'not in the moment'. How can you be 'not in the moment' and dreamy and have normal conversations? My mind is also blank, empty. Small talk is very hard for me

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borednikon

· #4 · Mar 4, 2013

What I've observed is that my mind makes all these wierd connections and relationships between things that have NO relevance to each other. Almost as if I am looking for meaning in everything that I see, think, or have ever experienced.

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Mogwai Fan

Discussion Starter · #5 · Mar 6, 2013

Have any of you been diagnosed with dp or something similar? Im waiting for my psych to make a diagnosis

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Aspire

· #6 · Mar 6, 2013

Mogwai Fan said:
Have any of you been diagnosed with dp or something similar? Im waiting for my psych to make a diagnosis

I told my psych that my symptoms are like DR/DP and he said I was right to look it in that way.

12/3 I'm seeing a psychiatrist and today in the afternoon a neurologist.

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Mogwai Fan

Discussion Starter · #7 · Mar 6, 2013

Fuck, found these symptoms of prodromal schizophrenia which really apply to me right now

- losing interest and motivation in life and activities, including relationships and sex

-lack of concentration, not wanting to leave the house and changes in sleeping patterns

-being less likely to initiate conversations and feeling uncomfortable with people, or feeling there is nothing to say

It says these symptoms appear a few years before the onset of schizophrenia.
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Schizophrenia/Pages/Symptoms.aspx

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Mogwai Fan

Discussion Starter · #8 · Mar 6, 2013

1. loss of interest or lack of motivation
2. trouble thinking clearly
3. changes in sleeping or eating patterns
4. less concern with appearance or clothes
5. feeling suspicious of others
6. feeling like things are unreal

7. changes in perception
8. unusual thoughts
9. odd behavior
10. social withdrawal

^ those numbered symptoms are from schizophrenia.com about early symptoms you should be concerned about

Ive been expiriencing 1,2,3,4 a bit of 5, lots of 6, some 7, lots 8 but no real 9 or 10. This is pretty fucked :S

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GroupHug

· #9 · Mar 7, 2013 (Edited by Moderator)

Mogwai Fan said:
1. loss of interest or lack of motivation
2. trouble thinking clearly
3. changes in sleeping or eating patterns
4. less concern with appearance or clothes
5. feeling suspicious of others
6. feeling like things are unreal

7. changes in perception
8. unusual thoughts
9. odd behavior
10. social withdrawal

^ those numbered symptoms are from schizophrenia.com about early symptoms you should be concerned about

Ive been expiriencing 1,2,3,4 a bit of 5, lots of 6, some 7, lots 8 but no real 9 or 10. This is pretty fucked :S

Those are pretty vague descriptions of symptoms and all/most of them are more likely to be symptoms of something else (depression, ocd/anxiety). You could, and you will, look up symptoms for pretty much every psychiatric disorder (including personality disorders - we all share some traits of all of them) or disease and find something to either worry about or relate to.

All of us here (those who have/had have obsessive and negative thought patterns and anxiety) are or have been obsessive online symptom checkers at one point or another. Your thoughts, worries, and problems are as mysterious as they are unique. Welcome to the club. You're going to find a way out of this sometime.

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Mogwai Fan

Discussion Starter · #10 · Mar 8, 2013

Thanks for the replies, my psychologist is going to sum up my case and get the opinion of 9 other professionals before diagnosing me with something. She is going to consider schizophrenia seriously in this process because of my concerns/ symptoms

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GroupHug

· #11 · Mar 9, 2013

Mogwai Fan said:
Thanks for the replies, my psychologist is going to sum up my case and get the opinion of 9 other professionals before diagnosing me with something. She is going to consider schizophrenia seriously in this process because of my concerns/ symptoms

Sounds like you're doing the right thing and you've got some good professional help. Good luck.

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