I re-connected with a friend I had around the time of my first psychosis.
Anyways, while talking to them, I found myself becoming a bit paranoid…
I’ve decided to not communicate with them anymore.
Is this a normal thing?
Has it happened to any of you?
Yes
One of my childhood friends wants to reconnect with me but he now makes me very paranoid.
At around 20 years old he moved to California and got involved with the drug scene there.
He eventually got hooked to harder drugs and became a Heroin addict.
I think he’s clean now but he still makes me paranoid
I avoid him at all costs
I have one old friend who tries to keep up contact
But I am retired from socialising with friends from the past
I can’t be around people who are also delusional about alien stuff and who won’t shut up about it. They wind up my symptoms in a bad way.
I wouldn’t use the term “symptomatic” but there are definitely people who stress me out. Namely my family. I really think at some point I’m going to sever all contact.
Some “borderliners” makes me very nervous so i tend to avoid them, to much drama and feelings.
There’s a friend’s cousin who has severe SZ. I knew before he had mental health issues and I didn’t like him then because he was very obnoxious and talked over me.
Now that he has SZ I get really uncomfortable around him because its very obvious he is mentally unstable, often inappropriate or nonsensical, and I can see my friends behave differently to him to not upset him and sometimes I worry thats how they treat me. When I asked a friend she said that wasn’t the case. But I still get really uncomfortable around him because I guess I see myself reflected in him.
yes, a few people do at the store where I go to buy groceries this one pharmacy tech makes me uncomfortable when I see her she used too anyway not so much now as before she always has an attitude with customers which in turn makes me anxious and wondering whether she will have an attitude with me and then I wouldn’t get the meds I need and just walk away if she did have an attitude with me but seen her get an attitude with other customers. Also there is another guy at a store I go to that I avoid his checkout line every time I went to his checkout line he would ask me how I was doing over and over again and it annoyed me so I avoid him when he is working there I know he probably has issues and can’t help it probably maybe ADD I don’t know but he has some form of mental illness I can spot from a mile away and he makes me anxious and nervous as well other than those two people no one bothers me or triggers symptoms in me.
Hot women make me symptomatic 
Yes,other schizophrenics that I was in contact…
All want to come to my place,but I’m afraid they would hurt me,they all have history of violence,and no insight of illness…
The only MI people who trigger me are those who get aggressive or start shouting at others. It makes me feel scared and paranoid.
My narcissist of a brother triggers me big time!
I blocked him on my phone and Facebook permanently
There are people who cause me a lot of stress, which then makes me symptomatic. I best avoid them, and if I cant I keep very limited and controlled contact. Inlaws mostly.
Religious people, and people who want my help
The only people that triggers me are ones that want to stay at our house or have someone stay at our home.
Yeah im the same tbh
Tbh some people on here and people at work previously who always want to know what im doing
Paradoxically doctors
The change in routine, when people stay here, makes me unwell very quickly.
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