Or named nurse because he is nosey and I think he would google me and I’m easily identified. I have nothing to hide but feel uncomfortable them knowing my thoughts and feelings that I don’t want to discuss with them? I know they are busy but I’m still paranoid about this.
Irrational thoughts like these pop up in my head once in a while.
I usually end up dismissing them because they are so irrational.
The truth is doctors are too busy and indifferent.
They have better things to do than to snoop online.
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I very much doubt a pdoc would be able to track you down to these forums without you giving details that readily identify you. Even then I doubt they would have the time to search through the thousands of posts a week to find one that would lead them to identify you.
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I don’t think your nurse would take the time to consider that, or anyone would for that matter. basically she just does the work she has to do/does, sounds irrational.
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I really do think they are spying on me and I’m scared to approach the subject with them incase they start spying on me.
This is an anonymous forum. I’m not sure I understand why you think you’re easily identified.
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I also use a U.K based mental health forum.
I once became paranoid that my pdoc was spying on me and ridiculing me so I deleted my reddit account 
I wish I hadn’t.
I still tend to get worried that she’s spying on me.
Do you think I’m still paranoid. I’m less guarded when I’m among other sufferers and write down things that I don’t want my pdoc or case worker to know.
I have just come out a psychic episode (they increased my invega) where I thought my pdoc had a conspiracy against me, had secret folders, was preventing me from being the chosen one. I was obsessed with it. I feel slightly better but these are still at the back of my mind.
Do you think the idea they are spying on me could be reminisce of psychosis?
It’s definitely psychosis, but it feels so real; I still feel like ‘they’ are spying on me, from time to time—it’s gotten better with a Clozaril increase.
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They have better things to do…honestly. I thought I was important but people are just busy with their lives and forget about us.
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I wondered about this before. But like said this is a very anonymous forum which is one reason i use it. I am totally off social media platforms. But this is very annyymous.
I don’t know about the other forum. (I am in the UK also)
As I’ve wondered about this myself however at the end of it all I asked myself what do I have to hide? My answer was nothing. They already know about everything I post about pretty much.
I sometimes wonder how far the things I say are heard. It seems like what I say goes a much farther distance than what anyone could rationally expect - much farther. If I told a therapist this he or she would probably change my med’s.
the question is if pdocs read forums like this…
So you keep things back that because of doing so may affect the quality of treatment you receive?
I had beliefs like this in the bahavioral ward. That nurses there were looking at my Facebook.
Another sign that a place that denies me most of what I have to cope is not a good place to recover(for me).
I used to have this problem baaaad. Meds helped
Most psychiatrists are so busy I doubt they would be trolling a forum hoping to find one of there patients out.
I think u safe here
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There are over 70 million schizophrenics on earth. Considering that, our community is quite small. So I highly doubt a psychiatrist would be able to find you on the Internet considering how few people with schizophrenia actually find this website
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I get paranoid about being traced or watched whenever I am apart of forums. I think it is probably unlikely that your pdoc or anyone else like that would look into your stuff. They are all about openness and probably too busy to do that anyway right.
i doubt they’d have the time and i think its anonymous too.