Your like me...you check about things on the internet and it freaks you out! :( My best advice, and I need to listen to it too, is don't use the internet to diagnose!! If you look up a symptom it will say it's a precursor to every disease out there :( You have worried about it for 10 months and think about it, you've never gone crazy or had a psychotic episode, so the best determination of the future is the past :) Your ok....you will continue to be ok! Just keep pushing through! Don't let your mind freak you out!!

Lovn- very good advice! I used to do the very same thing and the only thing it accomplished was to scare me to death.
We all need to "tend the garden" of our mind - because we can grow flowers or we can grow weeds.
If you've had these symptoms all your life - let that be for now. Just because you read something, doesn't mean you're going in that direction! It just means you read it, it scared you, and you are thinking about it too much.
Before you investigate anything any further - ask yourself - what is my goal in doing this? Is this going to help me heal/get better? Is this putting good, wholesome, true thoughts into my mind? If not, discipline yourself to stay away - - -
I see a little girl in that picture above ---
That little girl needed love and for some reason felt she didn't get what she needed. That's all that's going on with you and with all of us - our feelings of fear are the "little child" wthin us that is crying out for attention, love and acceptance. And what we do - is push that "child" away over and over again - and then it start to scream and throw tantrums - it is hurting and wants comforted! Think of the behavior of little children - they won't give up until someone notices them and gives then attention (hopefully, loving attention).
You might want to read some of John (I think )Bradshaw's "Healing the Inner Chidl". Notice in your body where you feel that pain - talk to it as if it were a little child that needs comforted. Because for many of us, our emotional growth was stunted at the time when we were not taught how to handle strong emotional situations.
That's all that's going on- no psychosis - no schizophrenia - just a "little girl" needing lots of love and understanding.
Maybe this makes sense to you - if it does, think of some ways that you can start going in this direction. Rather than continually attacking your precious mind - start nurturing your emotional body and it's needs.
Please allow yourself to calm yourself - you do have it within you. Just becasue you can't find your "keys" doesn't mean they are gone. You just have to spend some time looking for them.
I am praying for you now I see you bathed in a warm loving light that is constantly around you, waiting for your permission to give you it's comfort. Let it in -- get out of you head as best you can and into your heart and find as much love there as you can --
Let me know how you doing- Pursah

i was diagnosed with several anxiety disorders thay started about 3 years ago i have also had a pyscotic breakdown about4 years ago due to a mixture of untreated bipolar disorder extreme insomnia sometime when i have panic attacks or extreme anxiety i feel like i am going comepletly insane!!!! but ive notice personly that extreme feeling of im going crazy much like the extreme anxeity will pass please just take care of your self! Know you are smart and strong get plenty of sleep and exserise whatever makes you happy you will be fine
schiozphrenia is a chemical imbalance that you are ether born with or develope or some times can induce with drugs but i think if someone with anxiety and ocd were to get it they were probly going to develope it ether way im not a medical prefessional but i like to try and help others i think your gonna be okay and good luck with the anxiety hope you will find something that works for you

I know that for me, when my anxiety is bad and the insomnia kicks in I will start to see things in a certain range in my vision (not just the corner of my eye). Looks like mice or bugs or movement and it freaks me the hell out. Also I will hear what sounds like voices or music where there cannot be any. At first I used to freak out that schizophrenia may be setting in, but for me it was just the absolute lack of real sleep.

The best thing to do is talk to your therapist. It could be sleep deprivation or medications that cause the feeling or fear of psychotic episodes and being able to talk about it can make you more aware of when those feeling are manifesting to you can tell yourself 'this isn't real'.