OCD or psychosis?

[Dasher10]

Okay, so I'm afraid that I might be developing Schizophrenia. I have had some childhood trauma, I'm in my early 20s, and I'm begining to experience auditory hallucinations. The catch, it might also be OCD since it 1. involves a trigger, 2. I've had really wierd reptitive thoughts in my ehad for a while.

These auditory hallucinations happen to just be the Facebook chat sound that I hear when I'm on the site and the chat isn't going off and some old thoughts have just gone away and new ones usually form when old ones go away. I'm also prone to what are referred to as musical hallucinations where I can't get a song out of my head and other obsessive thoughts related to movies that I've watched or video games that I've played.

Is this just a new wave of obsessive thoughts or am I developing a psychotic disorder? It's just the Facebook chat sound right now but I'm afraid that it could get worse.

 

[pjc104]

this doesnt sound like schizophrenia, but your obsession grabbing little things in your life and blowing it out of proportion and tying it to your ocd symptoms... this is common for any intrusive thoughts you may encounter

 

[matthew brownlee]

i have schizophrenia and OCD, but i dont have auditory hallucinations, i can just get very delusional at times. the whole thing about having a song stuck in your head stems from you having OCD (i believe, i read about that in a book). you shud talk to a mental health professional. and about that facebook chat sound, that actually seems like a schizophrenic auditory hallucination, or it could just be another obssesion...... also known as an INTRUSIVE THOUGHT, thats my opinion

 

[Eelizabeth26]

Hi.....

That's defenitly OCD! I have that all the time. I was so fustrated because I couldn't get a song out of my head today. Then I try so hard to hear things--- and gues what.... I end up hearing funny sounds like a cell phone ringers, but the sound is very low.
I have OCD bigTime!!!
No worries..... the way I fight it is.. by not being affraid of it.
If you hear something, just think to yourself.... "There goes my OCD AGAIN- No Worries, It'll go AWAY!".
Get busy Man!!!
That helps.


Best Wishes,
-Elizabeth

 

[UA606]

Hi, I can relate because I too have a fear of having schizophrenia. I am 25 years old and a 2nd year medical student. I had a very happy childhood growing up and I have never had any mental illnesses/problems growing up. I also don't have a history of mental illnesses in my family, except my mom does have anxiety. She doesn't get treated for it though. Last year, during my 1st year, I fell into a deep depression and had to get on medication. I also had a lot of anxiety and suffered a few panic attacks. One day, I was reading about schizophrenia, and was coonvinced I had it. Ever since then, I have been "hearing a voice" in my head. But I think it's me making it up. I've seen 2 psychiatrists and a psychologist and they both tell me I am not psychotic and that I don't have schizophrenia. But I feel like this "voice" comes and goes. It's sort of an "evil" voice, saying things that are intrusive. I do have instrusive thoughts I hear in my own voice, and my psychiatrist told me I have OCD. I'm pretty sure I'm making up this other voice in my head. But I'm not sure sometimes because I get so anxious and start to doubt myself. Am I really having auditory hallucinations? Or is it just a manifestation of my OCD?

 

[missOCDandGAD]

OMG U are so right about the voice(s) in ur head. FOr the longest time, I too felt like I would develop schizophrenia by the time i turned 24 or 26 because I would hear my voice repeating my name over and over in my head. Sometimes it would last a few minutes and other times it would last for weeks, whick would only confirm that i was in fact developing schizo. Im now 27 and im seeing a psychiatrist about this becuz i just could not deal with it anymore and he tells me that is just OCD. My psychologist also tells me that ruminating thoughts or "thought voices" that happen to be very intrusive is sorta like a combination of OCD and generalized anxiety disorder and when you become afraid, you worsen the situation and somehow make it worse.