Posted by TylerJ on March 27, 2006, at 13:40:32
In reply to Are you psychotic or neurotic? How to tell...., posted by JaclinHyde on March 25, 2006, at 2:18:41
> During my hypochondriac heydey I was positive I was psychotic. I had no reason to believe this though; I never heard voices etc. But the idea still scared me. To put that in perspective a stomach ache was DEFINITELY stomach cancer.
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> Anyway I had a doctor straighten me out one day with some very brilliant words. I told him that sometimes my left arm didn't feel like it was attached to me. He said "Look at your left arm. Do you see it?" I said well...yes. He said "That makes you neurotic. You get the feeling it isn't there but you still see it. A person with a psychosis will get that same feeling, look at his left arm and NOT see it."
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> I have never forgotten that. So for all of you who are afraid you are going crazy remember what he told me.
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> Hope this helps someone.
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> JH
Great job by your doc...we neurotics need to hear things like that. I remember when i first started experiencing probs with dep/ocd/anxiety i was also afraid that i was really going off the deep end. Information similar to what you mentioned above finally convinced me that i was not psychotic and i was very relieved...still miserable, but relieved. :) My ocd consisted of really bothersome thoughts, no rituals, just repetitive thoughts that I tried and tried to stop...when i learned to just accept them and not fight them they lessoned greatly. Today with Parnate and hundreds of hours of CBT my ocd is non-existant.Tyler
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