I'm driving myself crazy with constant anxiety and the thought that intrusive thoughts could actually be a symptom of schizophrenia. For about the past month I've had intrusive thoughts about swerving my car into oncoming traffic or blurting out something inappropriate at work or in front of people. This causes me a great deal of anxiety and has really exacerbated my condition. I had a four hour drive yesterday that had my anxiety through the roof, but about an hour in I started to calm down and the thoughts went away. I guess in a sense this was similar to exposure therapy. I worry because I'm 31 and my grandmother possibly developed schizophrenia around this time in her life. I keep thinking this could be a prodrome phase and soon I will completely lose touch with reality. The intrusive thoughts are visual but not hallucinations. They are happening within my mind like imagining a scene and I seem capable of pushing them away. Would something like this be indicative of developing schizophrenia?