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It started when i was talking to a metal health nurse and i told her i thought i was going crazy. She described some symptoms of schizophrenia and now its like i'm looking for those symptoms in my head always asking myself am i going to hear voices, what if i do and a whole wack of what if thinking. I sometimes fear that i'll go crazy without evening knowing. Then it creates more anxiety and fear then i start getting sensitive to everything i see hear and do sometimes. Then i think back to one statement that still reassures me some times and that if you are actually crazy you won't know that you going crazy. But its just the thought that is so fearful, when i was looking for my bag today and it was up in my room my thought right away was what if i hear a voice i my room or even worse in my head, then i obsess about it and think i'm actually going crazy and one day i'll turn into a schizophrenic. Its my biggest fear. Who can relate or have some input on this.

i don't know that it is a good idea to tell someone who is afraid they are going crazy to tell them they have a serious problem, this could increase the obsessiveness, create more fear and drive them deeper into a problem. i heard voices when i was going off of an antidepressant called zoloft. it was listed on a forum as one of the common side effects. that tells me that chemical imbalances in the brain can create this effect. i brushed it off and went on with my day and didn't give it another thought. u know that it is in your head. so perhaps u should see a doctor about the imbalance and try different meds until u find the one that restores balance until the voices go away. ur not going crazy. ur body is playing tricks on you. so fix it. no one can live like that.

Manley relax and breathe it sounds like you are having scary obess. thinking and panicky negative thinking. Your worrying over fears of what if this and what if that.

I think alot of people on here have worried over going crazy or becoming schizophrenic. I myself, am one. I know its just my anxiety, nothing more.

Like carolyn says on one of the tapes, sometimes it feels like the there are two voices goingon in your head, the nagative voice telling your going crazy and the positive voice saying your not. I think everyone who has anxiety feels the exact same way. If your worrying about this, sounds like its just your anxiety being high. Most people who have mental illness deny they have a problem. They blame everyone else for whats going on around them, they think everyone else is crazy.

Listen to your relxation tape. Listen to tapes 2 and 3 on panic attacks and negative self talk.

Speak to a good friend and share your concerns.
No one on here is qualified to make any medical diagnosis based upon your post, comfort yourself with that. Relax and braethe.

Take care and God Bless. I will say a prayer for you.

I understand your concern Maria but I think there is a HUGE difference in hearing voices and being scared of hearing them. Main difference being one is an anxiety diagnosis and the other schizophrenia. I have been to a therapist and at one time feared that same thing she reassured me that it was just another symptom to anxiety and I was just reacting to it because it scared me. Just as people fear other things sometimes people fear that. I understand your concern and that was sweet but I think it may have been a little scary for the person.

My Mother is Schizophrenic/paranoid...and I was assurred by HER doctor that I would NOT become like that(my anxiety was brought on my "fear" of becoming like HER)...The simple FACT that I "Fear" hearing voices and hallucinating determines the FACT that I am NOT like her. She thinks everyone else is "crazy" or "not right"...She doesn't know that it's all in HER head...if you know what I mean.??? I am convinced that Manley is showing signs of ANXIETY...PERIOD!!! The mind is a powerful thing, I've also "thought" that I heard voices and seen things out of the corner of my eye...it was the "fear" of it...Although I am NOT a Doctor, I've been through enough counselling that has assured me it's only ANXIETY..."what if, what if, what if" .

God bless you ALL on this journey, stay with the program and read these posts...Everyone will be okay:)

Robin

Hi! That is what our anxiety is all about --fear. We scare ourselves with all those "what if" thoughts. I'm no expert either, and I know it's hard to see when you're in the middle of it, but it sounds to me like anxiety. Do your relaxation tape, practice your positive, compassionate self talk. Replace all those scarey thoughts and doubts with positive true thoughts. Remember that all those negative things we say to ourselves are not the truth. We just scare ourselves with them. The positive statements are the true ones. Take care. Feel better. B