Having some issues with paranoia for the first time in years (I’m on Haldol). It’s not very intense right now and I think I can handle it without hospitalization but I’m disappointed about the symptom’s return. Anybody have coping strategies for your own paranoia? I hate feeling like this. How do people cheer themselves up when they’re feeling like this? I don’t want to do anything, I just want to go to bed.
Thanks.
Hi try to find some distractions (TV shows, comedy, videogames, walks, reading, comics/mangas, music, drawing…) while you wait for a med adjustment. 
I still have bad paranoia on Haldol too. I take 30 mg but still get breakthrough symptoms.
If you have a benzo, those help when the paranoia gets pretty bad. I have Klonopin that I take when I just can’t calm down or distract myself.
Im not the best at handling it so take what i say with a grain of salt…
Im on abilify max dose for 6 months and seroquel 200mg a night for about a month. I get intense paranoia still but i just try to distract myself. I hate doingf stuff when im like this but try to watch some television (assuming its not a trigger) or go for a walk in a non populated area. The name of the game for me right now is to do stuff that is always pushing the limits of what i feel safe doing. Its actually working kind of as im being a little more social nowadays.
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