Anyone just too paranoid to socialize?

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I’m too paranoid to deal with people.
Don’t want to see my caseworker because I have these irrational fears that she will harm me. (Starting to believe it completely)

Anyone else too paranoid to deal with others?

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If i really know someone I can push past my paranoid thoughts about them though they’re still there but it makes it very hard to meet new people because im terrible paranoid that they hate me, want to humiliate me, hurt me, talk about me, laugh at me, etc

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I don’t socialise but it’s for other reasons, not paranoia.

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Usually only when i am very ill i actually feel paranoia. I am okay for most but very uncomfortable sometimes.

Hope you have a new caseworker who will actually help you. BTW i dont think she will harm you in anyway.

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Thank you @MissMermaid.
I don’t want to work with any caseworker right now.
Just feeling out of sorts lately.
I see my pdoc next week.

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Yeah do you have the blood test results too? To show your pdoc?

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Yes I will make copies and give them to her.
Thanks for reminding me @MissMermaid :slight_smile:

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The negative/cognitive symptoms affected my social skills too much to socialize comfortably

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I’m like that too. Im always afraid someone is going to kill me.

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I have been to paranoid to socialise .
When I do anyway it can make me worse.
Sometimes I need that lone time and space.

I have had paranoia for many many years.
Sometimes more and sometimes less and sometimes not much but still some.

It has been different.

I have had it against family and every one in a way .

I am better at the moment although I do feel attacked by many I still am doing well.

Maybe you can get another support case worker?

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I don’t have anyone to socialize with, most of the time. I can’t just go up to strangers and start talking to them.

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Maybe, yes - but right now I don’t want to work with any of them.

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Hey there Wave. Sup?
Do you still live with the same housemates? The ones who weren’t very social?

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@Wave if you watch this social phobia documentary enough times you might get bored with the whole idea of social anxiety. Watching it over and over will either kill or cure you. It’s a bit of a gamble, worked for me.

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I used to be very paranoid about somebody that should have been helping me was actually not helping in the very least.
After I stopped having to deal with that person, not surprisingly my “paranoia” also quite being my main focus.

Hope you can learn to trust again @Wave, it’s true not everyone is out to “Get” you, but you should always protect yourself and trust your instinct- it usually does work in your favor.
Hope you can find a good support case worker- in time -that will listen to you and do the right thing for you.

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I’m living at my parents house.
One roommate is coming out of his shell more.

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No … but definitely need to get away from people if I’m around them too long. Also I’m so glad I get to sit on my own in the coach cos I’d go crazy if I constantly had to chat :confused:

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I’m a bit like that yes. I’m too paranoid to sit with other people at dinner. So, I sit alone and am happy that way.

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@Wave, i was paranoid as you for years. my doc just upped me my med. ill see if it will help. i can get paranoid even around my mom… it can change, believe it.

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I am more socially isolated than socially anxious. I live in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere. All there is is a pub but I am not accepted in there. So I mostly keep to myself.

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