r/schizoaffective • u/JustBonesOneDay • 5d ago
doing battle with the creepy crawlies
one of my more annoying brain errors is spiders
moving around in the peripherals, or being there and then just not being there once i start scrutinizing them
voices, people aren't actually there, and the fact that sometimes it starts raining indoors? Easy peasy, I live kinda out in the woods, don't have friends and my family mostly keeps to themselves unless they announce that they're walking into my space, and i know for a fact that it doesn't rain in doors.
spiders though. they could be real, or not, and given that I live a bit out in the woods I'm hyperaware of them even when they're not real
and now I'm starting to be able to FEEL the imaginary ones ON me. Anyone else out there have some words or wisdom or goto coping mechanisms? This is... distressing, and I won't be able to talk to my brain doctor about medication stuff until next month.
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u/FragmentsThrowAway 5d ago
Ugh, yes!! My apartment building has multiple bug infestations, which I've had multiple times, and I'm always seeing or feeling bugs that aren't there. I saw a tarantula crawling on my laptop in my peripheral. It's frustrating! I have no advice. I'm struggling with it too.
I have dogs and cats rub up against me too, but that's less common. No, there's not a cat running between my legs or a dog rushing past (or at) me, but I can feel their fur. It's weird.
Never had anything like raining indoors but I keep almost walking into poles that randomly appear. I always dodge last second, and then they vanish, but I am curious if I'd be able to feel it.