Paranoia, How to cope?

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So for the past few days I have had this paranoia and I have been afraid that someday we would have a zombie apocalypse. This has come from my watching the first ten minutes of Zombieland. My mind is easily influenced and I believe things that I know are only hypothetical to be true. This has not been the first time this has happened.
My whole life I've gone through a range of fears: aliens (UFO abductions), ghosts, demons, murderers, various diseases and now zombies. Death has been a big factor, and I know someday I will die but I do not like to think how.
I've always hated change and loss of control. 
The things that started the roots of this fear are this article that talked about 5 reasons a zombie apocalypse could happen, zombieland, and the one thing that set me off was when I read how people were preparing for a zombie apocalypse. Ever since then I couldn't stop thinking about it and how I would just kill myself if that ever happened and give up all that I've lived for. 
It's the worst paranoia I've had because of all the reasoning zombie-enthusiasts give behind it to scare me. And what's worse is Halloween is coming up and zombies are going to be a big thing.
Just writing this post makes me want to die. I need help. I need to get out of this but if I told anyone else they'd think I was insane...
I kind of am. Which is why I need your help, guys pleaseeee!! !

Only go out if I can bring my lizard with me. Otherwise I lock myself in the house I've had severe paranoia ever since childhood and I think the bullying I received in school (which supposedly was my fault) made it worse.

Is there a thing that give you some reinsurance, a bit like punkykat's lizard, would help making it a bit less unhealthy, something small if possible so easy to go around with it.

Try to think a bit less about the future. And if horror movie give you so much trouble try to watch a bit less of them, even if you like the genre, I don't think it worth causing so much instability.

Would say you need to consult a bit also but I admit since I don't know in which country you live, so might not be a good suggestion for not every country has a good social and mental health infrastructure.


Don't know much how to help other then that, but try to find something that make you feel safer, still got my favorite toy from when I was a kid handy for when anxiety just become too much, it might not be much but help me feel a bit safer.

you seem to be your own worse enemy. believe me when paranioa comes around you wont be able to get away from it, my advice iduldance is a sin, dont become so entrapped in something especially a tv show

I had a dream once or twice about a far off danger that only I could see. I think it's because I notice details a lot of people ignore, and those details tend to be our undoing (passing germs, for example, or leaving some small thing unfixed that could spiral out of control). I have to have conversations with myself that remind me how other people see things and how the things I'm worried about are very, very unlikely.

It still feels like sometimes I could drop off at any moment. But that's life … Depeche Mode's "Fragile Tension" is a good song about that. Raconteur's "Steady As She Goes" too.

Remember: Just because you're not paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

Trust nothing, trust no one, not even yourself!

I used to have frequent bouts of paranoid-delusional thinking. I also have had difficulty separating fiction from reality (see something on TV and even though I know it's fiction, a part of me reacts as if its real).

To deal with the paranoid-delusional thinking, when I felt one about start, I forced myself to examine the facts that I could prove. The bout of paranoid-delusional thinking would still have a negative impact (usually making me useless for the rest of the day), but in time I learned to realize signals that put me in a downward spiral indeed were nothing to get worked up about and my bouts became fewer and less extreme.