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Fear of going crazy!!! Help

It's all started with a panic attack a year back. I thought I was going crazy. Went to a local psychiatrist and he told me I have GAD. And gave me a anti-anxiety pill. Took for like a week and started to have sleep problems. So I stopped it. Being coping with my anxiety since then. And living with the fear of schiz. Sometimes it's ok, sometimes it's so hard. Read so many articles about schiz OCD in Internet to make me feel ok. But with that new symptoms I figuring out. Like dreams popping out later the day and it's hard to recall if it was a dream or not as I forget things very easily later on, but later the day do confirms to my self it was a dream!! Hehe. This happened like 5 times now, constant eat worms, harm thoughts. Scared of ghosts, flashing images when trying to sleep and resting. Pareidolias (seen face illusions) !! With all this its really hard for me to cope with my illness. Tried meditation, going to gym. Previously when the fear of schiz thought comes it drives me into panic attack. But now I don't have any panc attacks now. But the thoughts only!.

1 month ago I waked up to a scary dream. My mind told me i did something like that in my dream. The dream was like a crime scene. My mind kept on repeating it for like an hour that I did something like that. This never happened to me before. After an hour I went back to sleep. After I wake up later that day I knew it was just a dream.  But with my OCd the thought kept on repeating that this was a sign of going crazy!! I went to local psychiatrist and she confirms that I am developing psychosis!!! This got me more anxious and I went to see another psy doc. She told me that it was a sleeping disorder!! And gave me low dose of anti-depressent for my sleep. I took it for 3 days and my sleep was ok. But I started to see faces (Pareidolias). So I stopped it. And it's Ok. Now I am Thinking that none of the medicines is helping me is because I am developing some kind of a psychosis !! Help me!!!
Sorry for the bad English!! hope you guys understand what I am trying to say.!!
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9784446 tn?1421337046
i think you have ocd only ,psychosis is not about seeing images which you know that aren't real, in psychosis people assume that everything which is happening to them is real
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I am going through something similar I have anxiety and panic disorder and Im sure I have OCD too, I read on an article that some people with panic disorder may commit suicide since then I have been terrified of what if I commit suicide thoughts of course I don't want to but the thought scares me. I wake up in the morning very anxious and scared thinking about that thought. Going through a tough time right now.
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