Does anyone experience paranoia at night? What do you tend to experience?
I’m asking because I experienced a little bit of this late at night when I was going to sleep (although it’s my fault because of a video I was watching earlier). It especially does not help that I tend to get more anxious/paranoid because of the fact that it’s getting darker earlier as well. It’s also pretty embarrassing because I’m 20 and it makes me seem like I’m still afraid of the dark.
My symptoms are pretty manageable but it’s something I wanted to ask you guys because I want to see how many of us there are.
Yeah I’d say it happens to me too. When the meds are working well, I’m usually able to get through it. But yeah, nighttime seems to ramp things up a bit with the paranoia.
For some reason nighttime is when my paranoia tends to come out the strongest, especially when im outside in a well-lit and populated area. Something about artificial lights outside at night makes everything look fake and uncanny and surreal.
My paranoia is significantly elevated at night also. Moreso if I’m in the city by myself. At home, every sound has a significance, every noise means something, usually I just take my meds and go to bed.
Just now getting to the thread because it’s been a busy day.
So glad to know I’m not the only one who struggles with this. There definitely is something about nighttime that makes my paranoia skyrocket. Doesn’t help when you’re interested in creepy things, but I pretty much brought it on myself. It still really sucks, though.
