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help me out of these weired thoughts

I am 30 years old male and i have been suffering from anxiety and have  obsessive features since my childhood which aggravated during my teenage and i was diagonised with Panic disorder with agoraphobhia, insomnia, and concurrent obsessive thoughts. I have been on medications for last 7-8 years. Currently I am taking the following medicines: Fluoxetine 60 mg, Olanzapine 2.5 mg, clonazepam 0.5 mg, Mirtazapine 15 mg.
  Few months ago a weired thought came into my mind- If their are so many stimuli present at a time how does one's mind pay attention to a selective stimulus. Then onwards i would become conscious of many distracting stimuli while i would listen to something or read something. I started feeling like a handicapped which cant listen or read. This very thought suffused my mind; day and night i would think about it. I contacted my psychiatrist who increased the dose of fluoxetine from 20 mg to 60 mg and decreased olanzapine from 5 mg to 2.5 mg. The medications certainly helped in the sense that my anxiety lessened a bit and also i started feeling less depressed.
  The problem is that whenever i start reading something or listening to someone i become conscious of the multifarious stimuli and i am not able to pay selective attention properly.
  Is there any name of this problem? Is there any solution of this? Is it tenacious enough so that it will linger forever? Can it be erased from my memory using hypnotherepy? Will any other medications work?

I want to know all these answers as i am finding this problem really troublesome and impeding my ability to communicate properly
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Thanks for your replies.......I know i think a lot, to the extent that it becomes fatal to me. ....I think the best way to deal with such mental problems is to accept them the way thay are
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Yep, I was diagnosed with Bitpolar disorder and all that other stuff....Anxious, yes I am a crative thinker, also. All I do is think and my mind wonders like hell. I could make anything make sense in my own head. I cant socialize because what people say can enter my thought process and become a false reality to me. Like the handycap thing, I concentrate on my digenerate spine a whole lot till the point where I have all these crippled type thought and so I feel like i'm actually going cripple. We have to protect our minds the best way possible, unless the brain will send false signal to our body. These disorder will convert you if you let it..Just remember that you are not what you are not(remember who you are). Listen to positve music more and hang around people who are open enough to talk to you. A best friend is always good, so make sure that they know your situation,
I think I entered these stages when I started feeling that no one gave a damn about me, and now I trust no one, I cant even look anyone in the eyes unless i'm drunk and don't give and damn. email:***@****
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I bet you're a really clever person who thinks about things way too much!!  I can't concentrate on what people are saying either... but that's because my obsessive worry actually doesn't let me sometimes!  It'll literally be an entire conversation where I'm answering the person but haven't actually heard and thought about a single word of it!  I actually can relate to what you're saying as I have found myself very easily distracted by other stimuli around me when someones talking to me too.  I can't give you any advice though.  Just talk about it with your doctor.  But if I know OCD, that'll be your thing of the moment.  Then it'll pass and you'll have something different to contend with!!
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