So I have it… The new doc said it too. In my case, it feels like some ‘‘overloading’’ of my brain when I am around people… Did I lost the habit to socialize and that’s why it feels so bad? My doc prescribed me lithium but I am not sure it will help the paranoia… I am anguished even in the presence of my mother sometimes… for info, she still says that ill be forever ill and alone wow…
do you believe that Zyprexa can take years to work because I am ill since too long? I really feel terrible outside among others, its bad… I feel this pressure in my brain and I have those kind of thought blockages wow…
ok, I gave up socializing years ago which is not good but can the time help me to recover on the paranoia? did you know this symptom at his worst too? sometimes I dont understand why the ap is not big help, that’s all.
It’s really difficult to deal with daily. I have trouble socializing too. I keep thinking that I know what to another person’s thinking of me. Abilify is helping in other ways, I may need to get on a low hmm clonazepam again. Also paranoia causes anxiety. I never realized that . Anna get to feeling better .
This new doc didn’t seemed convinced that my paranoia will disappear by efforts, idk… I guess it will be a long process too no? Me I still think that distracting myself can help me, I am such a stubborn 
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How fast meds worked on your paranoia - one, two months or more, or maybe years?
Trazodone seems to help me…
Starts in three weeks to two months. I do the same just distract myself. I take deep breaths also. My counselor said to test things out things like with this upstairs neighbor stuff well could they be talking to each other. Etc…
If you figure out what consciousness is, and how to create it, it is then that you take full control. No more paranoia.
Of course you have to keep it to yourself since it would be dangerous for such knowledge to be in the wrong hands.
So it’s a bit of a bummer discovering what consciousness is and not being able to get the Nobel prize for doing so.
Conspiracy theories made me so paranoid… that my brain turned into such a huge thing… it made a grand conspiracy thats so large and all encompassing… i cant even care about them any more… if its that big i just dont care… and it makes the smaller ones seem insignificant… idk… there has to be a better way but this one worked i guess…
What is the reason you get paranoid around others?
For me it was the delusion that they can hear my thoughts and that I would think bad thoughts.
Steady meditation, twice a day for half an hour at a time has helped me reduce the number of thoughts I have and therefore my paranoia has decreased.
Clozaril has helped my paranoia
Some good advice I got is when you are out in public, and you think someone is reading your mind, think of the loudest scariest noise and if they don’t wince in pain I feel a bit better and it helps me believe that they aren’t reading my mind.
For me the combo of meds, therapy( talking about my fears, reality testing) and desensitization together gets me the best results.
Can’t deal with it today
@Anna1 are you taking both Depakote and lithium?
That’s overkill if you ask me.
I feel so bad for you, @Anna1. I was in pure hell the whole 33 years that I was paranoid. All I can tell you is that it may get better when you hit your 50’s.
Yeap @Wave… I am a bit afraid too of this… My doc didn’t want to put me off Depakote. I am on 300 mg of lithium for the moment.
Hey, do you think that the lithium can help my thought blockages or the paranoia? I guess I suffer because I am paranoid that I am some bad things(I dont want to enter in details). My mom said to me just now that I wasn’t opened to the doc once again. I really have troubles breathing now when around people, its to this point yeap… is this a paranoia? I guess that the others can see through my thoughts, yes… I dont know if the isolation made all this worse, whats your opinion?
I just have those scared eyes now wow 
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On bus with my mom. Thinking people people are talking about me calling me names
Paranoia is a temporary state of mind just like all the other various states of mind we go through in any given day. You can trap yourself into thinking it is going to be forever. Well, it isn’t; That gives you a fighting chance because it can be changed, and there is a solution to how you are feeling.
When it hits take a few minutes to be by yourself to settle the physical stuff down 
i.e. reduce your increased heartrate and uniform your breathing. Next concentrate on your thinking: there is so many things you have no control over. Like people’s opinions of you, the weather, circumstances which are inconstant so why not put what is outside of your control aside for a moment. You have the innate capacity to redirect your thoughts to something worth your while. Do this every time you have paranoia. This is what I do whenever I feel its effects.
Lithium nor Depakote did a blessed thing for my paranoia in any of those years I suffered with it. Didn’t do anything for my mood problems either, for that matter. I had to go on Tegretol for my mood problems to get better. Only AP’s did the trick for my paranoia.
Sounds pretty close to what I’m having trouble with. I guess that’s what has upset me the most, that mom and dad are conspiring against me. I just come back from the shop run by chinese buying wine, and am sure he was laughing and talking about me, he doesn’t even speak english. I’m no doctor, but feel zyprexa is only good if you want to be an extra on that show “The Walking Dead” .Pretty bad experiences with it here, but it will work quick. Gave up socialising here too, turned the phone off for 3 years, even the most hardcore friend gives up after that time frame.