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.

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  • Didn't you just make a post about having phantom smells? I really think you are over thinking and making yourself freak out. You seem like you have a problem with worrying too much which leads to anxiety and panic attacks.

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    • boeingdude1

      yes i have diagnosed anxiety and OCD from a doctor, however it is not quite severe enough to take medication. I get intrusive thoughts all the time, and regularly think that I am about to die, or go insane. It gets really bad, maybe I am clogging the IIN community with my irrational worries. Thanks for so much advice though. I have always been a hypochondriac. So it makes sense. Thanks for all the helpful replies, and I hope I have not annoyed you in the process of sorting out my irrational fears. Probably gonna remove this post now that I see how ridiculous, and normal these issues are among the general population.

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      • I am not annoyed. I really think that if you want to go the doctors route to get treatment, I think you should find a different doctor. It sounds like your anxiety is definitely severe enough for some type of medication/alternative medicine/or counseling. If you feel like your anxiety is impeding your daily functioning you shouldn't let one doctor convince you that you need to feel even worse to start getting treatment.

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  • TwoThumbs

    As someone who once suffered from pretty heavy anxiety disorder I can't make any promises but these seem like symptoms of anxiety disorder. I'm not a doctor but my trade is engineering and am very well studied. I only say this because I researched this subject a lot.

    Honestly...See a psychologist. That said. Look into your therapist's office for an anxiety group. I did one of these and it changed my entire outlook. I am now able to use anxiety to actually help me instead of hold me back. It's pretty awesome. A nice starting point is Jon Kabat Zinn's book Full Catastrophe Living. He teaches mindful meditation. Probably the number 1 thing that helped me silence my "anxious mind". Look into it.

    I'm pretty much over all panic attacks. I'm able to meet the anxiety as it comes before it develops further (into a panic attack). I owe that thanks to the anxiety group that I was in and meditation (and jon kabbat zinn's book).

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  • Shrunk

    The first paragraphs are really common to me as well but I know it's just coincidence or that maybe the world isn't as simple as we make it out to be, which is kind of a way of being paranoid without being scared. I have OCD as well but it manifests as obsessive intrusive thoughts, they were a lot worse when i was a kid, and I thought I would grow up to be full on insane. I still do feel a bit crazy sometimes, but at least I am able to hide it. I think if you can't is when it because more of a psychological problem

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  • uhhyeahidk

    I am in no position to diagnose you, but I think you should definitely see a therapist since this is concerning you. I wouldn't put it off, its not going to improve unless you do something. good luck!

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  • Schizophrenia is the medical term for people who are in tune with things that most people are unaware of. It is a gift and a curse because the more the mind becomes open to these things, the harder it becomes to function.

    Welcome to the matrix.

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    • Why was I thumbed down so much?

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      • boeingdude1

        I know! I actually liked such an open minded answer.

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  • Tommythecat.

    I have this exact problem. But at the same time I keep seeing real evidence that people can read minds.

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    • boeingdude1

      Yes I know what you mean. I find myself being convinced that telepathy is possible. I seek a scientific answer. Perhaps it takes on the form of wireless electromagnetic transmission, or it is just human nature, in the same way we can feel people's eyes on the back of our heads, or schooling fish swim in perfect order and sequence.

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      • Tommythecat.

        I guess so, I have no idea how it all works but those sound like fairly good theories. That it is probably a natural thing.

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  • You sound entirely too rational to be schizophrenic. I think you're overanalyzing yourself...like many people do, especially if you're subject to hypochondria.

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  • ccjigsaw

    You need a hobby.

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    • boeingdude1

      Lol it took about 5 minutes for me to type this. I have many hobbies, and I go to college...

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  • antwan

    aaaaaayyeee!!!!!! finally..finally somebody who's willing to talk about it, me too, me too, I go through the same shit, ok, where do I start, well.. its a long story so I'm gonna have to cut some things short, well, I am going through the exact thing right now, in factive been doin so for a while now, my name is awntwan harris, I live in Toledo ohio, please look me up on facebook and send me a message because there are not too many people willing to talk about this, so we gotta stick together, soo..every thought that I have "ican hear" out loud, first of all the voices that I hear they do the same thing to me, when I'm walking they say all types of negative shit, for example, I live with my wife and her 13 year old daughter, (we live together), and her daughter is growing into a young woman so shes starting to fill out, I could be sitting in the living room with my wife, and these voices (more than one) will be saying things like- omg she so thick I just wanna beat that pussy up" owe yeaa she nice I just wanna fuck her in the ass etc etc, I don't have to say too much more you get what I'm saying, and then the next thing you know she coming in the living room being all fast and shit, like she "likes" whats being said and she want me to see her, so as a man I say look you are 13 years old, shit yo mfin ass down quit trying to be grown, take yo ass back in the room, so she goes back in the room, the next thing I hear the voices talking to her like do u want me to put a hit on him, and I hear her (audibly) say yes, yes I want you to put a hit on him, and the voice say "who" and she says "Antwan", so I'm like ..who are you in there talking to? and she like nobody, the next thing I know me and my wife fighting, and I feel like she does this to me all the time, and I feel her mother knows and dosent care, I've asked people everywhere do u hear what I'm thinkin, and they so no, but then I mightsay something like "look at this fat bitch" or "that dude a fag" and I see people respond, the crazy part about it is, it seems like my whole city hears me, not only do they hear what I'm thinking, they hear what I'm saying, and they hear what I'm listening to and they see what I see, and yes I do see and hear delusions, I see shadows and things go by me all the time, and people have done things and said things to where they slip up and let me know its real, and sometimes people give hints and I gotta read I between the lines, but its hard because I don't always understand whats being said, I also tried a person before, I said hey if you can hear me take your hands out of your sleeves, and he did, I panic all the time, fuck them doctors, man u not crazy bro, u know who's crazy, them mf's on here talking about u need medicone or need to talk to a doctor, or u trippin, or u need help, NO MUTHA FUCKA, he's telling the truth, and a lot of people on here KNOW!!!!! they just too afraid to tell you, (cowards), they try to make you feel like something wrong with you (and its not) the truth is the world just isn't the same as it used to be, either (man) has found a way to fuck with peoples minds, or the devil ordered this shit, notice how to voices mostly have negative things to say, I wanna start a facebook group for people like (US) who know that somethings wrong and we are not ashamed to say it, people lie to our faces, I have a wife , I hear her talking to the voices but when I ask her she lies and tells me no, my family my closet family, friends people I trust all tell me no, they don't hear it, they don't know what I'm talking about etc etc, and it hurts because I have to get on the internetto speak with someone who I don't even know, and hear the truth from them, fucked up

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  • slim624

    Idk

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  • Shnaz

    You are.

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  • Try_to_be_you

    I'm like that, a lot. I always thought I was crazy, so then I just decided to except I am. Most of the people I know would think I was joking and tell me I'm weird or a freak. You should also be happy, though. Most people are so boring, this.makes

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    • Try_to_be_you

      Creative*

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  • jeebley

    Avoid going to the medical people at all costs, unless you absolutely have to,.. there's no telling what they might do. I've experienced similar (and also far crazier) 'delusions' and I find it's best to keep it to myself. Stay healthy and avoid drugs like marijuana if you have to. If you don't actually believe the thoughts to be true then I think you're fine. Just keep doing that.

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  • Holzman_67

    I sometimes think things to myself then moments later wonder if I said them out loud. I think this is a mixture of delusion and terrible short term memory.

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  • peterr

    Roses are red,
    Violets are blue.
    I am a schizophrenic
    And so am I.

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  • peterr

    Roses are red,
    Violets are blue.
    I am a schizophrenic,
    And so am I.

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  • handsignals

    this deserves a: Too long, didn't read!

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    • boeingdude1

      Sorry man, I really couldn't describe my symptoms in an adequate way in a shorter paragraph sequence. Don't read it then, fine by me.

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