When you get paranoid, is it just a fleeting thought or do you dwell on that thought? I find that I get paranoid about ten times a day but the thought literally just lasts for a second then goes away. It feels more like obsessive thoughts
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It starts out with fleeting thoughts for me, but as time goes on they come more and more rapidly, until I’m in a constant state of fear and anxiety. I’ll start having fleeting feelings of relief, instead, that quickly vanish as something else “suspicious” happens.
Someone posted something recently about how lack of sleep and worry are two key components of paranoia. I think that’s true in my case.
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feels like being the victim in a horror movie but it’s real life
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my paranoia makes me literally suffocating! I am close to fainting and I wanna hide then. but I went deep in the illness so I wouldn’t like to scary others with this symptom. it takes time for me to get better on meds, they work people :).
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When I am paranoid I get out of control emotions, it is so severe I will scream and cry, I hate the feeling of being watched. I can’t stand it. I will get so anxious I will have to cry. Though I haven’t felt this severe paranoia in a long time. I think the medication is helping. I have intensive in home therapy, I have coping skills, the only thing I deal with now are the voices.
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My pdoc gave me a tip for getting rid of unwanted thoughts. Have an elastic band around the palm of your hand and snap it on your palm every time you get a paranoid thought. The sharp pain of the snap trains the brain not to think those kind of thoughts.
I tried this and it works well.
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My paranoia isn’t that serious but it’s pretty constant. It prevents somewhat from getting close to people because I always question their motives. It makes me want to carry a knife in public and always look behind my back when I hear something.
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I’d have fleeting paranoid thoughts every once in a while, I discard them as intrusions. At my worst though it becomes more of a perceptual experience rather than me thinking this or that explicit paranoid thought. I would see people staring at me awkwardly, rather than I would think it, I would hear in their tone of voice that they are being insincere etc.
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This describes my experience with paranoia perfectly, but I’d also hallucinate them talking to me and hear them say things to me.
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