Do you ever get super paranoid after watching scary movies (well, who doesn’t…) but like… imagining that things are actually stalking you? I watched The Unborn, and I was convinced for months that there was a small, demented, and dead child who lived in my mirror and I was always scared that when I closed my eyes when showering that he was behind me, peeking through the curtain…
Thankfully, that fear is gone now, for the most part, but it’s still in the back of my mind.
I have lately been scared that something is waiting for me behind the toilet when I first walk into the bathroom, but I don’t know where that fear came from…
I want to know how many people relate and I want to know how normal it is and at what point it is truly being paranoid.
I think scary movies do that to everybody. I think everyone checks the back seat of their car when they walk out of a scary movie. I don’t know why people watch them. I don’t like feeling like that. The scariest movie that I like was “The Storm of the Century”. It’s good. It’s a Stephen King story. That is about as scary that I like for a movie I watch to get.
I don’t watch really scary movies. I don’t like being that scared. If I do watch something that has a little bit of scary-ness to it, it can make me a bit paranoid. I have paranoia everyday as part of my delusion and I fear that a very scary movie may exacerbate that.
A few years after I was diagnosed I downloaded a lot of horror movies and watched them to basically intimidate the voices in my head. This was unusual for me because I usually get paranoia from watching these types of shows. I’ve sworn off of watching any since then because I always worry what’s happening in the movies will happen to me.
I got a couple of VHS movie collections and I watch movies randomly. I stumbled on a few that I have had to take a ativan just to sleep after watching them LOL, Yeah movies can freak you out
Thanks for the replies, everyone. I do a lot better with horror movies nowadays, because I know in the back of my mind (for the most part) that it’s fake. I watched The Unborn, mentioned above, about 6 years ago, so it was much scarier back then.
Actually, it depends largely on the content of the horror/scary movie… I have found that I can’t watch any kind of scary movie with a serial killer, because that’s real and that’s extremely triggering for me. Those make me disconnect from reality and give me intrusive thoughts and paranoia.
trigger warning: murder & blood
When in public, I always feel like everybody is watching me, and then I also think about how anyone around me could randomly start shooting a gun and kill the people around me and myself. It’s surprisingly easy for humans to die. I get intrusive thoughts about people dying with horribly bloody accidents, so some scary movies I have to avoid because it can exacerbate these problems big time. The worst is when I get intrusive thoughts about my loved ones dying, especially when the intrusive thought is about me causing it. (The thoughts are extremely bothersome, I would never actually hurt anybody)
That’s the first time admitting some of my intrusive thoughts like that.
Hey this is my very first post on this website I literally made an account to reply to this.
Then I realized it was a schizophrenia website lol… but that’s cool cause I got diagnosed with that before it’s just I’m dealing with it without help even though it’d be good to talk to someone about this stuff in my head but that’s perfect that you posted this because I have very similar tendencies of imagining very alarming scary or to be honest very disturbing or vulgar images or thoughts pop in my head. What I do? Sometimes I let it happen to me like just imagine it getting close or jumping at you or happening and pulling a 180 on the scary thing and try your best not to get scared. Just try it out it might help! It’s like in the movie It! Lol I love that movie. (I get nightmares and images from certain scary things like American Horror Story even though I’ve already seen the first season before. )
Anyways! I strongly believe that I am a very imaginative person, so I know that if I am coming up with the worst of the worst in my opinion then I do have the power to make my reality the best of the best too. Not saying I can get rid of the worst because you can’t sadly but hey it’s a way to learn about your triggers like you suggested and hey man everyone has triggers but you’re gonna be okay! Try to remember that your body is safe where you are, because the reality is most often not our delusions or fears so your body is safe you are a good person and you probably won’t die tonight.
Here’s another thing though. You’re gonna die someday you could die at any moment. I think learning how to accept that is a way to understand life a bit better.
Okay thanks for letting me be a part of this discussion Love you Peace Out Goodnight
It’s like in the movie It! Lol I love that movie. (I get nightmares and images from certain scary things like American Horror Story even though I’ve already seen the first season before. 
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