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can agateophobia make you insane?
nomorepanic
19-06-03, 14:31
Please can you explain what the phobia is.
Thanks
Agateophobia is fear of Insanity
SD
As my psychiatirst said, those who worry about going insane are the least likely to.
CYA
quote:Originally posted by smudga
As my psychiatirst said, those who worry about going insane are the least likely to.
CYA
That's good to know. I thought I was going mad for years.
Does that mean I am just dellusional now? lol
Neuroses - panic and anxiety do not progress into Psychotic illnesses. It just doesn't happen that way.
As we spent a long time not understanding our anxiety properly we convince ourselves that we must be going mad as we cannot find any other reason. We then obsessively think about it which cements the thought nicely until it becomes a belief.
Energy follows thought so if we think about it enough we come to believe it even though physiologically it doesn't happen.
If you stare and think about your thumb long enough you will eventually think it looks/feels funny. [:I]
quote:Originally posted by radar
If you stare and think about your thumb long enough you will eventually think it looks/feels funny. [:I]
I've done that with words. I think about a word.... 'telephone' over and over again- then eventually the word doesn't sound familiar! It even sounds weird.[8)]
hi there
i remember someone saying too me if you think your insane you cant be because a sane person would not would not ask that question.
bish
Hiya,
I found my self looking at the fatty bit below my thumb (palm side up) and thinking it was growing big and purply and vainy
I had a panic attack because of it. I actually had to check my 6 year old sons hand to see if it was the same(it was) I had just stared at it for too long and my mind went into overdrive I think too much!!
I feel as if I am going crazy as well and have to ask people for reassurance
I suppose you are right though if you were insane u wouldn't be thinking about it!!!!
Did anyone watch coronation street last night when sarah's boyfriend said something about being scared at the top of a cliff not in case you fall but you jump. I asked my partner about that and he said he has strange thoughts all the time but doesn't dwell on them. I think the problem with anxiety sufferers is we analyse our thoughts too much instead of letting the silly ones go . Does that make any sense??
Lucky
following from last message i also get this with tastes. I think something may taste funny and half way through it (ie juice)it does taste funny!! (or so I hink
I have agateophobia. Sometimes I actually wish I WAS insane because somehow that would make it easier??? lol
Roxy
When I am in a really anxious state I get really panicky in case I'll kill myself and I get my boyfriend to hide scissors and stuff. It is weird because I have no inclination to kill myself, I am just frightened I suppose because I could. My boyfriend says that he thinks the same things like when a tube train is coming out of the tunnel he thinks 'I could jump in front' but of course he doesnt want to so he doesnt - as you say anxious people just dwell on these irrational thoughts that everyone has.
Dear Twister-
Everyone has these thoughts in some form or another . Anxious people dwell on them, analyse them to extremes and hold that thought and perpetuate it by continuing to think about it - this giving it energy and power
Pre anxiety we just thought it, smiled or shivered and dismissed it within seconds.
Meg
Watch your thoughts, they become your words...
Watch your words, they become your actions... Watch your actions, they become your habits... Watch your habits, they become your character... Watch your character, it becomes your destiny...
tWISTER,
I KNOW EXCTLY WHAY YOU ARE SAYING, I USED TO PUT THINGS (EG SCISSORS IN PLACES THAT WERE AWKWARD TO GET TO INCASE I WENT 'CRAZY' AND HURT SOMEONE. MY BIGGEST FEAR IS THAT I WOULD DO THINGS IN MY SLEEP AND I WAS PETRIFIEED I WAS GOING TO HURT ONE OF MY KIDS. MY BOYFRIEND WAS VERY CONFUSED AS HE KNEW I WOULD NEVER DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT BUT MY FEAR WAS VERY REAL.
I HAVE GOT OVER THAT SPECIFIC PROBLEM NOW BUT IT IS A VERY SCARY EXPERIENCE. RE YOUR BOYFRIEND SAYING ABOUT THE TUBE MY BOYFRIEND SAYS HE HAS 'MAD' THOUGHTS ALL THE TIME BUT AS RADAR SAYS WE JUST OVER ANALYSE THEM
HORRIBLE HORRIBLE FEELING
LOL
LUCKY
Think of how many people you know who have acceptable fears - of flying, spiders, fish, deckchairs, nasal hair (ok, I'm kind of pushing it here) - and ask yourself what is sane anyway? Maybe the real fear should be about going sane, because then you may really be on your own!
Jim
Babylon's Burning With Anxiety
I suffer from agateophobia too, a few times i actually wake up and feel that i have gone insane. but i am a medical student myself, and given the psychiatry exam, i have made alot of medical histories, and actualy insane people dont realise they are insane, they just slip into it and dont complain, they think they are fine.
Anyway my neurologist also assured me, i wont die or become insane. Its just a fear, like other fears. Only that anxiety heightens the fear.
And some crazy websites say that fear of madness is indeed being mad, and that is not true at all. Undoubtedly they are dumb and have no experience or knowledge about these phobias.
Yes, I have Agateophobia as well. I didn't know so many others had these symptoms. Reading all your stories has made me feel better.
And for the record. My psychiatrist told me the same thing. "People that fear going insane are the least likely to"
Best,
Bond
I was hoping that some people with experience in this could help me? I don't know if what I have could be classed as agateophobia.
I think about going insane all the time, every thought that I have gets automatically processed in my mind and diagnosed to the many different mental illnesses and disorders that I have pathologically researched on the internet. I also find my self doing things and saying things even, going so far as to force my self to think things that I think my 'condition' of the moment would make me do, all of which I don't realise I'm doing until a while afterwards.
The only problem is that this doesn't scare me so to speak. I don't have panic attacks over it and though by many aspects I am rather anxious by nature this isn't one of the many things I personally consider to be a fear. Infact most of the time I wish it was true becouse then at least it would be clear to me what is going on in my head. It is really less of a phobia to me than an obsession, one that I don't want. The thought of losing everything in my life to a mental illness doesn't appeal to me but in certin scary moments I just don't think I care that much and sometimes I also think that this is a fear the symptoms of wich I have just numbed my self to.
Is this agateophobia or am I infact crazy?
Hi all,
Reading everyone's messages has been very helpful for me. I suffer from this and often think that I am going to lose control in a public situation, that I am going to go 'insane'. Seeing people in day-to-day life who look bit 'down-and-out', so to speak, or talking to the drunk in the pub who seems a bit off-his-rocker has become very ditressing for me, mainly out of new-found empathy but, if i'm honest, it is also out of fear for a similar fate. But I did have an inkling that it might just be another case of my obssesive nature covertly attacking me again in one of it guises. I hope people believe that they can conquer these fears. What works for me is to tell myself that I am not going to let my life be taken over, that I must be strong.
My friend had a similar experience to what others have mentioned, whereby he kept dwelling on the thought that he wanted to stab his girlfriend whenever he was holding a sharp object. This ditressed him a great deal, as he loves his gf very much, and anyway the thought of stabbing anyone or anything was very upsetting for him. The doc told him that everyone thinks these thoughts, but that he was dwelling on it due to his obsessive nature. He overcame it.
I think that, eventually, being an anxious person makes you a more caring, loving human being. It also can strengthen your intelligence because you think outside of the normal way of things.
Thanks again people
ps i espicially find comforting the idea that those who are worried about going insane are the least likely to actually go insane! although it does lead me to wonder what is better, happy but mad, or contantly distressed but sane... lol
PsychoPoet
25-03-09, 17:28
Being scared of spiders doesn't make you grow eight legs and live inside a car wing mirror. If you were insane, you wouldn't be posting about it here, let's put it that way. :D
Insanity doesn't just come on, you need to be born with some kind of serious brain problem or major personality defect which you would have struggled with from an early age. Or a severe brain injury could possibly cause it.
Stress and anxiety can make you feel like you're going mad, but you are not going mad. You can't.
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