How can you tell a difference? How do I know which it’s causing my fears and which prn to take?
the one causes the other…
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Anxiety is the fear. Paranoia is the thought (which can cause anxiety but not necessarily)
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Ah how bad this is. I had horrible paranoia and anxiety
I have anxiety right now on top of paranoia. I was that way for four days at ctc. Freaking out…
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With anxiety, people recognize that the thoughts are creations of their own anxious minds. With paranoid delusions, people have fixed beliefs that they believe are actually true in the real world - even though they are false.
Someone suffering from paranoid delusion is convinced that what they believe is true in spite of all evidence to the contrary. They cannot be talked out of their delusion nor can they be comforted. Someone with anxious thoughts is usually fretting the future in spite of the fact that what they are fearing is unlikely to happen. They do not argue with that lack of likelihood, but will complain that they cannot control their thoughts.
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But what about someone with decent insight,? I can logically deduce that the government is not likely to be after me but still believe they are. But know they’re probably not. That’s still paranoia.
I have anxiety due to the thought that bad people will come and abuse or kill me. I feel insecure.
I understand. I think people are out to kill me all the time. Its hard to go out in public.
I am also afraid of abuse. But I’m contradictory because I feel that I welcome it.
how you welcome it?
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lol
I just say ■■■■ lol. Kind of open to abuse I guess
A guess (pure guess): what you describe (delusions with insight) represents what psychiatrists call ‘ideas of reference.’ Ideas of reference differ from delusions of reference in that insight is retained.
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