I think i am becoming schizophrenic
I think i am becoming schizophrenic and it is disturbing. I sometimes get what I perceive to be delusions. I have thoughts about people being able to read my mind. I was sitting at a table the other day with some friends, then I just got lost in my thoughts for a bit and wondered if my friend could read my mind. I then looked at him and said in my head hey look at me and he did, but that may have been just because he noticed my stare. Next I yelled in my head really loudly to see if he could hear my thoughts and my imagination made up a response from him, and I asked him if he heard my thought, and he said no. I then thought he just said that to trick me, then a few seconds later I realized how stupid my thoughts were, because I do not believe in telepathy. I disregarded it.
Another symptom I have is that i get thoughts pulled out of my head (I think that is pretty normal for schizo) Sometimes i will be thinking of something and in the middle of the thought or idea, it feels like someone has plucked the thought right out of my head.
Another symptom I have are thoughts about people poisoning me. Even though I know they are not, I still get intrusive thoughts about it. Once again realizing how dumb it was to be thinking such a thing. I know that they are not poisoning me, it is just a thought. My question is if it is really a delusional schizo related thought.
I also get phantom scents where, for maybe 2 or 3 seconds, and on a few occasions each day, I will smell a random scent, whether it be candy, wood, paint, or poop, the scents are unpredictable, but I do recognize that they are not real.
I also get random things like a word on tv being said as soon as I thought about it. For example i will be in an airport getting to a flight, and I walk past a television as soon as i am thinking the word hotdog, because i'm hungry for one, the person on the television says hotdog. I see a deep meaning to this and sometimes get thoughts that the TV read my mind. I will also hear people say things that I was thinking about and believe they can hear my thoughts for a minute. Similarly to other delusional thoughts, I DO NOT ACTUALLY BELIEVE THEM TO BE TRUE later on.
I seem to have a schizoid personality, which is nesecary to get schizophrenia, but does not mean you will get it. Since I was a kid, I only had a few friends, and did not see relationships as the most important thing in the world. I am also very smart, and not by my opinion. I have recieved good grades in school. As and Bs however, this began to decline in my junior year to mostly Cs. I have had a divine interest in existence, philosophy, physics, the universe, quantum mechanics, and psychology.
I do not hallucinate accept for smelling things that do not exist.
I also have anxiety and health OCD (hypochondria)
So I am constantly coming to the conclusion that I am developing a serious mental illness and will have to go to the funny farm.
Let me know if some of these symptoms are related to anxiety.
I fear becoming, or being Schizophrenic every day and have lots of panic attacks about it. If you could reassure me, or inform me that I need to be medicated, I am open for any responses, experience stories of schizos or people that know schizos, or doctors.
NOTE: I have developed alot of these symptoms after I figured out what the symptoms were, the exceptions being phantom scents, removed thoughts and my schizoid personality.
I am also at the prime time age for developing schizophrenia. Young adult male, 24. The Most common age for getting it.