Im wondeing if anyone relates to this. Now i always feel like im being watched. i compare this feeling to stage fright. i used to be a performer and id find and object in the room to stare at instead of the audience. i become to anxious and get filled with impending doom when i make eye contact. now this feeling has taken over. even when im shopping, working, driving, pretty much every human interaction except for with my mother. i cannot hold eye contact. i also feel this way about cameras. i feel like there are hidden cameras everywhere watching me. im not a criminal, im an honest man and security cameras shouldnt intimidate me, but i always feel like when im in public, its like these cameras are looking into my soul and like they can hear my thoughts. when driving i feel like every other driver is staring at me and judging my skills. i feel like everyone around me is mad at me.
I used to be like that when I was psychotic off meds
i edited it cuz i felt like it didnt make sence. how do u cope with this. im a guy but ive actually started shopping for burqas. for full coverage. ik its disrespectful but idk what to do. i dont mean to offend anyone
Meds helped me, I think its a form of paranoia. I used to always search for cameras and wear a hoodies to hide my face and always look on the ground. It took a year on the right med to get rid of this. Let your Dr know, maybe a med adjustment will help you
Maybe get some dark glasses, i find them useful.
ive started wearing those dark contact lenses. it doesnt do much but i kinda feel like theres a protective film seperating my eyes from those around me ig?
I dont like eye contact either, i feel more comfortable wearing some shades. I dont know if dark contact lenses would have the same effect.
wearing contacts has become a routine so im so used to it, i forget i have em in and then i dont feel any different than i feel without them in
you are having delusional thoughts if you think the cameras are watching you. I would tell ur pdoc.
I can understand what you are experiencing because I too at one time thought the same. I’m on the right meds and have been for a while now and I can now differentiate between reality and my delusions.
the cameras are watching. they watch all of us, all the time. i just feel like they are watching me alot more than everyone else, and it makes me feel very uncomfy.
you need to tell your pdoc about this…this is serious.
whats the difference between social anxiety and this
your beliefs…you believe the cameras are watching you.
Thats not anxiety, thats delusional and paranoia, out of touch with reality. Anxiety is not these.
blacked out my windows in my room today cuz of fear of being watched
I feel the same. As if I’m being watched. The paranoia is making me avoid going out in public during daytime.
took a trip down to the city today to get my car serviced. i hate it here. im in bestbuy just tryna kill some time and this is the place i will strongly avoid for future cuz of my paranoia. it’s like there are x100 more cameras in here, like everywhere. and u can’t even walk around without getting check on every ten minutes. it’s like being in a psych hospital on constant staff supervision.
dude, tell your pdoc. you need a med adjustment, you are in dangerous waters being that afraid of cameras…when I was out of it I would cover the electrical outlets not being used with toilet paper sheets. You could maybe start believing worse things than just the cameras and I don’t want to feed into your paranoia.
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