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Really weird things are happening to me [22F]. Not sure if it’s an elaborate prank or if I’m seriously mentally ill?!

TRIGGER WARNING: Brain tumor

Original Post Nov 24, 2015

Ok, ok. Ok. I’ve never ever, ever! Felt the need to post here but I feel like I’m losing my mind?!

I don’t even know where to start. My mind is so jumbled. I guess it started two weeks ago at work. I work in a factory, but I don’t do the labor, I’m more of a spreadsheet maker/book balancer/secretary type thing. Really informal but it’s my uncles company and I needed a job, yadda yadda. Good pay.

I was sitting at my desk with nothing to do, and I hear my boss (not my uncle, just another coworker and a friend of his) go, “Phil sighs as he looks at the weather.”

I look up like, huh? And he looks at me like, huh? He didn’t say anything. I was like…that’s weird. But oh well. Anyway.

And then the next day I was talking to some coworkers on the floor asking them work stuff, and one of them called me a bitch but when I called him out, him and everyone else looked at me like I was insane? I apologized and we all laughed it off. Factory is loud, right? People mis-hear things all the time…

Except, I was at Wal-Mart (I know, class) and one of the workers there was putting away stock and I swear to GOD he looked straight at me and said “The chicken was just killed” but I asked him what he meant and I felt so bad because he looked so confused and like I was crazy?! He hadn’t even opened his mouth apparently. Shit like this has been happening so much, my friend even pulled me aside to ask if I was feeling okay…

Small things are happening too. My boyfriend says he’s making salmon for dinner, I hear him preparing salmon, I smell salmon, then he brings it out and it’s lasagna. I asked him where the salmon was and he was like, “…What? I said lasagna tonight” And brushed it off like I’m being silly.

I could’ve sworn this one shirt I owned was green and not teal. Shit is changing and people are saying stuff but they’re not?! People are narrating their lives sometimes?! Theres no way my friends could be pranking me, not when random people on the street are doing this too. I’m so scared, I don’t want to be thrown in a mental hospital. NOT trying to offend mentally ill people, I just. I’m so scared. I feel like my mind is slowly melting…

tl;dr - People keep saying things they aren’t actually saying and I think I’m going insane?

RELEVANT COMMENTS

grasmat

You should go to the doctor, not just because there might be a physical or mental issue going on that needs to be adressed, but also so you can get an answer of what is going on. Don’t keep yourself in limbo, that will drive you insane.

Doctors aren’t your enemy, and even if there’s a mental issue going on that doesn’t automatically mean you get thrown into a mental hospital just like that. You’ve probably been around more people with mental disorders than you realise, and the vast majority of them can live a (relatively) normal life and live independently with some medical and/or psychiatric help.

Go to the doctor, they’re the professionals here.

OOP

Thank you. I’m in Canada, and I made an appointment with my doctor… it’ll be a week before I see her though… I can’t believe how much this blew up.

It happened again last night. Boyfriend said he was going to the bar, I shower and come out and ask why he’s still here. “Because I live here?” “I thought you were going to the bar?” “No?”

Maybe I’ll go to the ER if it keeps happening

cyanpineapple

Not to terrify OP, but this happened to my mother as well, and it was a brain tumor for her. This seriously calls for a doctor as soon as possible.

rawrvenger

Yep, sounds pretty similar to a friend. Go get it checked. It’s scary. But my friend, she’s doing a whole lot better now :)

Update Nov 29, 2015 (5 days later)

Older post is HERE

Wow. Wowowowow. I never could’ve ever in my wildest imagination that my last post would get this much attention. I was my on boyfriends reddit account on his phone and actually saw my own post near the first page? I was floored. Then he saw what I was looking at and we had a pretty awkward conversation…

Basically asked me why I posted something like that. He’d read it but only when he saw me on the page it clicked that he saw the same username on my laptop on reddit. He never imagined it was me. (I did change some details about my life in the last post.)

So we talked for a long time and finally he said that he was taking me to emergency. I didn’t want to go, I just wanted to wait for my appointment, not because I didn’t think it was serious, but because I had no clue how to explain what was happening to the doctors and nurses. Especially for it to warrant an emerg visit.

So we went, and he was very understanding. Just asked me how much I remembered from the past couple days. Stuff he’s said, and stuff I’d apparently heard. We were both scared hahaha.

I got to emerg. Very slow. I live in a smallish town but we have a giant hospital for some reason? We’re close to a lot of other towns, and they use our hospital. Close to Toronto too. Anyway.

It was slow. Just one father and a sick child. I went in and basically had to explain what was happening and honestly, the nurses were like ‘wtf? this bitch is crazy’ but when I saw a doctor he took me very very seriously. It was very nice. He wrote down basically everything I said.

I got some xrays and they asked me questions. You know the whole spiel. Anyway the point of this update was to tell you guys that I have a tumor. That’s really scary writing out, but I have a tumor. In my brain. It hasn’t sunken in yet that tomorrow my brain is going to be under the knife.

I don’t want to share more because I’ve gotten a lot of messages from people who were like… guessing my name. and where im from. apparently i remind people of their friends or crazy exes.

I’m scared to miss work but my boss was more than understanding. He sort of looked at me like I was insane when I asked how long I should be out of work. I don’t know. I need to pay rent!!! We’ll figure it out.

Thank you all for your love and support. I will update whenever I remember to. I am scared, but alive.

tl;dr I have a tumor and I’m getting surgery. Thanks!!

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