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Hi,

Im 17-year-old boy turning 18 in few months. I develop HOCD about 1,5 years ago which started my anxiety. It was/is like hell. So like year after HOCD I develop Pocd and that is/was hell also. Because of these two I have become very sensitive person. I have been sensitive person always but never this sensitive. But anyways nowadays I'm scared of everything. I tell few examples:
I'm scared of getting schizophrenia (it worries me so much, every single day I worry that I will get it, it brings me anxiety)
I'm scared of doing suicide (Because of these, I'm scared that I will get depressed and do that)
I'm scared of killing someone (I read that these monsters have mental illnesses and they are crazy. I'm scared that I will get crazy and do that)
Of course HOCD and Pocd...
I worry so much about these things and I dont want to but I cant stop. I'm scared of future. I can't live normally like I used to. I want to be free from these thoughts.
That schizophrenia is now the scariest thing. I have called to psychiatrist but still I would like to hear what you think.
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True OCD involves obsessive thoughts coupled with obsessive actions.  What you're suffering is anxiety that has become focused on certain things.  So don't sweat the labels.  Focus instead on the anxiety.  It has a habit when it becomes chronic of fixing on more and more things unless you find a way through therapy or, if necessary, medication, to stop thinking this way.
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