Have u guys found any tricks to build trust in the face of paranoia? Like my trust level is so bad that when I misplaced something in my apartment I think someone stole it even if I haven’t left the apartment since I lost it lol
How do u fight the feeling that everything is a plot? I’ve given up on meds being a panacea and think I need to find other strategies. Anybody find the courage to trust ?
Same. I’m sorry you get this. It’s tough.
Do you have a therapist? I’m going to mention it again to mine to see what I can do. Maybe yours can help you too.
Good vibes to you. @signless
I don’t trust people anymore because of some bad things that have happened to me.
Yea I have a therapist…she’s one of the few people I do trust.
I don’t trust anyone. But I do respect ppl even those I don’t trust.
Ppl can do things accidentally at the very least and u just never know.
Trusting myself is gonna help me trust others to a healthy degree
I get like this, too. Though when I get angry and violent lately. Not physically violent, but verbal hostility and defensiveness. I mostly then make threats towards myself after what I realized what I did.
I hope you can trust people, it’s hard being a paranoid man making paranoid plans.
I feel you on that . And I’m starting to realize that the way I relate to myself effects how I relate to others and the way I think people relate to me effects how I relate back to them. Lately I’ve been getting this feeling that I usually only focus on the negative…I need to remember the other side of life 
it’s hard as hell while having sz tho
From my own experience, I need to be on anti-psychotic medication and go outside amongst people regularly during the day. Trust in other people as well as heightened paranoia goes down when facing people (aka desensitization). Buying groceries and filling up the gas tank to meeting clients for work all alleviate the “trust factor” & “paranoia level”.
Best course of action in regards to suspecting others taking your misplaced items is to “not sweat about it”. Don’t sweat the small stuff is a very good idiom to consider when facing paranoia.
I am a person of habit and adaptation. I stopped focusing on negative things in my head. I focused on the positive things I want to do with my day and life. I trust myself and trained my brain away from the fear that destroyed my trust. I am not afraid to voice my opinion with my father. I trust that I am positive and am not speaking my mind to punish him or shame him or prove him wrong but to build our relationship. I forced my mind to enjoy the present and not keep waiting for what I wanted and needed. The time is now for me to have what I want and need. I developed habits of trusting myself each day and they are now hard to break. Good habits I have now are what I have adapted to. My body and mind now are habitually positive and enjoying each day to the fullest. My body and mind have adapted to doing things and paranoia and delusions seem awkward to me now. When before anything besides paranoia and delusions where awkward for me. Instead of wanting to be left alone and take it easy I want to push myself. I trust myself to handle people taking advantage of me properly and intelligently and beneficially for the both of us. I don’t think people are really taking advantage of me but they need my help. I will help others but not be taken advantage of by them. I will need others but not be addicted to them. I will trust others with open communication. I will not let others take advantage of me because of some of the shame I have with myself.
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