strangeeee thoughts

[becks xxx]

Is this my anxiety and my overactive mind or is this something else? I know I have had this before and it went but this time round I'm really concerned I have something else going on other than anxiety
I have been unbelievably stressed for months... but I keep getting very weird thoughts that sound more like delusions! However they can't be cos people who have delusions don't know they're delusions right?
I've had before random words or phrases pop into my head, which i know is anxiety but now I seem to be having paranoid phrases pop into my head?
Like I was sitting in my room the other day and i got a thought 'theyre coming for me' i was sooo freaked out , what is that about?!
Then i start to stress.. i sound like an absolute nutter! And then today my friend was texting me telling me about these teachers that are trying to kick her off of her course at college and are constantly looking at her. Then i got a thought 'theyre looking at me' .. and then I see things and think 'what if that means something' and i know these are schizophrenic thoughts !!! so now i am so so so scared i am schitzophrenic :'( but am i getting these thoughts because im schizophrenic?????? or because ive read up on it in the past and now my mind is playing games with me? because it's not like i believe any of the thoughts..im scared of them which is why i'm posting here?

[Littlehelper123]

Hi hun, this sounds like intrusive thoughts which are unwanted thoughts that when hits someone with anxiety intensify. The more you think about them the worse they get. So keep yourself distracted ! They're obsessive thoughts that are just thoughts, it might be a bit of paranoia too which is normal xx if it continues to distress you try seeing a counsellor or dr to reassure you xx

[becks xxx]

thank you so much so you don't think i should be worried? i do they think disappear when i am distracted but im not entirely sure xx

[lg123]

I've had all kind of strange and horrible intrusive thoughts as well as phrases/songs/images that stick in my head for days. One morning I was half way between sleep and awake and I had the sentence 'I can't walk' come into my head. I freaked out and had to get up to see if I could still walk and I could only sit still for minutes at a time as I had to get up to check if I could still walk. I had another thought pop into my head 'what if I can't read' and another 'what if I'm going mad and won't be able to physically function'. This are intrusive thoughts that anxiety latches on to and makes you feel scared about. If you weren't in an anxious state you would be able to just dismiss these as noise. I agree with Littlehelper123 about distracting yourself. Keeping yourself busy, doing stuff you really enjoy and socialising when you can will all help. The last thing you want to do is sit around ruminating about them (which is what I did when I first started having intrusive thoughts) as this will just feed your anxiety and make it worse and more constant.

[Lissa101]

Don't worry about them; they'll go away when you deal with the anxiety. I had the Cee-lo Green song 'Crazy' going round my head for about 4 days non stop. Even in bed I'd be lying there with 'maybe I'm crazy, maybe I'm crazeeeee...' playing in my brain. I spent a couple of weeks being mildly freaked out about radios and at one point I was also panicking that I would suddenly stop being able to understand language.

Hope that makes you feel better :hugs: