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kathy1
08-11-2008, 02:45 PM
Does anyone else suffer from this please?

i have some ideas fixed in my head which have no proof but seem totally logical to me and it can't get them out. someone has said that they seem like a psychosis.

kathyx
Robbed
08-11-2008, 07:00 PM
You may not necessarily have psychotic depression. What you describe could also be simple, obsessive thoughts. Obsessive thoughts are actually a quite normal part of most anxiety disorders and some depression, and are MUCH less serious of a problem than psychosis.
cynic
08-12-2008, 12:42 PM
Kathy,

I have these obsessive thoughts too. Maybe because I also have obsessive-compulsive behavior--or so my doctors tell me. Whenever I feel really anxious, I always think I might go crazy and it gives me such great fear.

Robbed,

Can anxiety lead to madness? I know manic depression, if untreated, can. I've been told that you can't really worry yourself crazy. It is not possible. Fear of losing it is just a thought, a symptom anxiety.
Robbed
08-12-2008, 09:36 PM
Robbed,

Can anxiety lead to madness? I know manic depression, if untreated, can. I've been told that you can't really worry yourself crazy. It is not possible. Fear of losing it is just a thought, a symptom anxiety.

Manic depression (now called bipolar disporder) is in a whole different league from anxiety disorder. Unlike anxiety, bipolar disorder is a true psychiatric disorder in the sense that its origins are biological rather than cognitive. You can recover from anxiety, but not bipolar disorder. So I would not even start to compare the two. But to answer your question, anxiety CANNOT lead to madness. It will only make you AFRAID that it will.
kathy1
08-13-2008, 06:40 AM
Hi and thank you for your replies.

i have really scary thoughts.

afraid of suicide - i was never suicidal but this pops in now and again.
i feel i have had a near death experience and i now know the workings of the human body? i feel i know that illnesses are caused by our stress levels, hard to explain but no one else seems to have had these kinds of thoughts. i feel that sore throats are caused by us being stressed, that menopause is caused by us being stressed, that all illnesses are caused by our levels of anxiety over a period of time.
i also fear dying, i wonder if your brain goes on living.

these are not normal thoughts i don't think. scared and feeling very alone and desperate. scared to live and scared to die

kathyxxx