An year for me that i am on zyprexa. But i still go out very few. Just for food sometimes. I still cant sit in a coffee with friends because of some cocktail of depression and paranoia. Can i count on time that my paranoia will diminish? My pdoc says that sometimes it take years but this seems to me too long. And if my paranoia gets better, will ill be more able to socialize and be active in your opinion? For the moment i dont fight a lot… i wish meds could help me more. Can they work better in the future? It seems to me that more i am irritable toward others, more paranoid i am. Plus the fact that i am prisoned in my own head with often somr kind of internal dialogue.
Keep going friends 
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I was extremely paranoid with thought reception (mind reading) paranoia for over 33 years. My pdoc recently put me on three different anti psychotics and that was the clincher that worked against my debilitating paranoia. Today, I am completely paranoia and psychosis free.
I am on Risperdal Consta injections, Geodon by mouth, Seroquel by mouth, and Celexa.
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What is mind reading skinnyme please?
My mindreading was like I could tell what other people were thinking. I could “read their thoughts”. And their thoughts were all about me, and their thoughts were all very, very bad. It was pure torture for me. I could read the thoughts of everyone in a room. And the whole room had bad thoughts about me. I could read the thoughts of people far away too.
Ok i see. I have it too i find in a way.
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Really? It’s becoming more common nowadays.
It’s been 2 years since my first hospitalization and my paranoia has not gone away.
How many AP’s are you on?
I’m just on Thiothixene (Navane), it is an older AP. I might ask my pdoc to switch me to Haldol, or even add it on top of the Navane.
Those are both older AP’s. Those older AP’s didn’t do a thing for me. I was still paranoid on them. You might try the newer AP’s. And if one does not work, try two or even three.
Did you get ANY relief from Navane? See what your pdoc says.
The Navane is very good for the voices and stuff that goes on in my mind. I’ve been on many of the newer AP’s and they were all bad, they made me fat or just dead.
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I notice the meds take away the majority for me ,. However it is a learned behavior also. I know that for a fact as when I became paranoid for months my wife became paranoid along with me. She did not know I was Ill and feed of my paranoia. I also noticed I would fall into my old nature at times. It didn’t take years for me and I notice an increase in paranoia if lacking sleep or if I take a lowered dosage for energy reasons.
Yeah, i wasnt aware of this symptom of mine but i guess i often think that the others think bad things about me. That they can see that i am ill too. I still have this, its pain i know… but i dont want more meds, ive tried thr most of the aps on the market. I try to change a bit by my efforts. But i could be wrong too.
We should be relieved from the paranoia with the time and the meds, isnt it @catsrcool, what does your pdoc says about this? Sorry that i ask my dumb questions but i talk few with my doc. We just agreed that the best med for me is zyprexa. Does your paranoia make you stay at your house catsrcool? Me, probably… i smoked a lot of weed in the past too, a loot. Best of all!!!
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Yeah I don’t leave my house much, except at night for walks. The paranoia and anxiety are the biggest issues for me.
My paranoia was intense for 5 or 6 years. I had Alogia and was afraid to talk because I thought everything was recorded and that “they” were out to get me.
I wouldn’t have posted anything on here then so for you I think that is a good sign. It wasn’t until I started taking Xanax that my paranoia began to fade. Antipsychotics didn’t do anything for iparanoia or delusions for me.
Does it happen to you towards your closest?I notice that I’m paranoid when I start feeling that nobody loves me; therefore I get angry and more paranoid. But then I say “It’s just me” and in a week or so it decreases a little bit. I started doing some exercise as well and the more I sleep because of the gym the more my paranoia decreases.
I got out to be well managing voices, too. When I hear a voice, they usually speak softly, so I would immediately tap my ears. If I still hear them, I just say "It’s you again. We won’t speak any further"And they just leave me
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I have noticed less paranoia . but every now and then I get paranoid and feel like I am just a target for the bad side in people.
I am paranoid every day. I hope it eventually goes away. I am paranoid about a lot of things. The past that I may not know about (blocked memories), the present (is my day going to go OK?) and the future (will ‘they’ torture me or sacrifice me?). I sometimes take Vistaril for my anxiety and Paranoia but it makes me tired. I have a very strong delusion and significant paranoia that I wish would go away. Maybe in time.
Good luck to you.