Hi, I'm 18/female, and just read your post about scared of losing mind, becoming schiz, and WOW i can SO relate to it. That's also my biggest fear! I don't really fear death, i just really fear losing my mind... or going schiz... normally the thoughts haunt me for days or weeks as well and it goes away, but always seem to come back. I'm positive people with anxiety/panic DONT develop serious mental ilnesses (other than depression or anxiety related ones) but I never feel 100% safe. It's such an annoying thought...! I would really like to talk to you because everything you wrote relates to me 100%! How old are you? When did you develop panic? I don't have panic anymore, jsut basically anxiety... But those thoughts and the fear occasionally haunt me!!
I was going through these forums, and this describes me as well. I'm obsessive-compulsive, and I worry about things over and over and over. the current thing i'm worried about will seem so stressful, i try to think of something else to worry about to forget about that, and it goes around and around that way. i'm driving myself crazy. my recent worry has been this one mentioned, and it's been about 2 weeks now, that i feel like i'm starting to make myself imagine symptoms. i know that i wouldn't be imagining these if i wasn't worried about it. then a second guess myself. i don't know all the symptoms of it, because i don't want to look it up to scare myself even more. I would like to talk to you some more. write back!