Has anyone else had paranoia triggered by an event? (Feel free to skip my story below if you want to answer but not read.)
I was once followed by an off-duty cop for swerving on the road. He stopped me when I started to get out of my car at home. He called on-duty cops who asked me why I had swerved. I had been reaching for a drink at the time. I knew exactly when it had happened, but I didn’t tell them this; I just said I didn’t know and that nothing was wrong. Since I didn’t admit to anything and the officer following me had been off-duty, they couldn’t ticket me. Ever since then, though, I am certain that I am being followed and judged for my driving. I avoid anything that requires me to take two hands off the steering wheel because I’m worried I’ll stray out of the lines. I got a camera installed so that if I have an accident, it’ll show that it wasn’t my fault.
any exposure to anything to do with aliens tends to trigger my paranoia (like, movies or stories or images). its not as bad with the dose of medication im on but before i was medicated that was like a direct ticket to hallucinations and paranoia for me
Aliens would bother me if I was paranoid about aliens. I guess that makes sense, thinking about it. Supernatural movies or trailers affect my hallucinations- I see demons; watching crime dramas mess with my voices and make me more scare- I hear people that want to hurt me. So it makes sense that it would affect paranoia too. I didn’t put that together before. I feel slow!
another thing that oddly sets me off is loud, montone sounds. like alarms, they make me so paranoid for some reason? i wonder if its tied into my childhood fear of tornadoes so i associate sirens with tornadoes
It could be @korieve! Even as a child, I was scared of people breaking into my home and would make plans for what to do if they did. Now I hear voices of people that I know are in my home and want to hurt me.
I think we get parinoia from are illness and it becomes a learned habit. We have too unlearn it. A good example of this is my first episode. My paranoia rubbed off on my co-workers and especially my wife. No one knew I was sick but because I was paranoid I passed on a lot of paranoia to people around me. After my meds kicked in I was still paranoid for several years . I’ve learned to overcome it. Mostly through prayer , laying it on God and walking away from it, leave the results up to him. Of course you have to have some type of a relationship with God to do that. But I’m sure non religious person might find some way of walking away from there problems. I just don’t relate in that area. But I am paranoid free. Meds are essential but there is more to it than just meds.
I do have a relationship with God. I admittedly haven’t been very good about praying or reading my Bible lately, though, so I guess my relationship could be better.
My triggers are fired up if u may when I’m around ppl that I care and don’t want to insult. My voices go crazy when I finally give into the negative intrusive thoughts of my mind. Then worry they might hear me and I start to panic.
Crowds is one of my paranoia driggers I feel like there is a man after me from the government trying to kill me. Another is loud banging noises that sound like gun fire to me all the time. I hate fireworks!
silence used to do it to me. it feels like your being shunned. I like when I go out and people are small talking about this and that without a care in the world
probably my most embarrassing example. I flushed a piece of toilet paper in the sewer system… I thought a disgruntled municipal worker was after me. I ran east for the stateline (about 5 miles) and ended up getting arrested for being in some guys woods…bizarre