Poll: In general do you suffer with paranoia?

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I’m diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia but on my meds I don’t feel paranoid.

For the last few days I’ve been taking fish oil and my paranoia returned :joy: So obviously I’m quitting fish oil. You win some you lose some.

I just wondered how many people even on meds still suffer with paranoia.

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I still get a lot of it even on meds. I have a lot of scrupulosity and am always afraid of making mistakes which might have terrible consequences.

I avoid seeing the news or reading about politics since I still feel like I am being surveilled at times or that the government is planning more wars. My lifestyle is mostly frugal and simple and I would just like to keep it that way.

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My meds haven’t touched my paranoia

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with xeplion iam paranoia free 5 years now.

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Everytime a strange vehicle is parked on the road, I feel the fbi is watching me…

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I am always paranoid stressed and anxious.

The meds don’t seem to help me with that stuff so much but at least I am not hallucinating or being overtaken by delusions.

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i don’t have any paranoia…I’m on generic prolixin (fluphenazine)

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I get it off and on. I get really paranoid when in an episode

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I’m paranoid about aliens, about kidnappers, cameras etc

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maybe you should try to stick to one psychiatrist and obey their med regimens? I think you haven’t tried the right meds yet.

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My paranoïa is lessen by meds but is reactivated by social stress which occurred at a low level of social interactions. Sociability is one of my problems.

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Yup, paranoia that everyone hates me, secretly want me dead, only tolerate me in their life, hate me.

Often times I believe that even my closest loved ones are furious with me. Angry and seething. Paranoid I’ve done things wrong.

It’s not a good feeling.

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Blimey - you sure your not me lol. Im the same. I get alot of paranoia - thats why i used to drink like a fish, cos i was usually so pissed i wouldnt care (and sometimes get arrested :frowning: )

it is tied closely to anxiety tho - of course - but strangley enough, the over-awareness has saved my bacon a couple of times, when ive sensed a dodgy situation.

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I used to drink a lot to cope too.

Wishing you some relief Seth!

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Olanzapine controls my paranoia pretty well.

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I’m too paranoid to talk about paranoia lol

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People DO follow me sometimes. Not much lately. But when I am really ill, I went too far and thought they were bugging me bad etc. It was really bad.

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I used to have it but not while on meds

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I still get paranoid even with the meds. ive got Quietiapine 25’s prescribed for “psychotic anxiety” - whatever the hell that means. But the only thing that truly knocks it on the head - is a good old fashioned benzo. Alot of it tho i think - has to do with my self esteem.

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maybe some. At a consultation group for therapists one therapist brought up working with patients with schizophrenia. I started to wonder if he had heard something about me, which is totally possible in the town where I live. But the part that got me thinking was some of my thoughts about the therapy community as a whole not liking me . . . that seemed to verge on possible paranoia. I don’t feel like anyone is out to get me necessarily though, just maybe not accept me and perhaps curious?

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