Who Else Has Paranoia?

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They say it's common...is this so?
Anything?
How to deal with it?

I used to get teased and harrassed so much that after a while, I was afraid to even leave my house. It was to the point where even if I was out getting the mail for just one minute, someone would start messing with me. Thankfully, I've moved since then and everything's improved. But I will not ever, never go back there again. Ever.

The main thing that I am paranoid about is being in my car when I am not driving.

This past summer I hit the back of someone's car when I got to the top of a hill. The incident was very small and damage was less then $2000 and the fault could have been on either side. No one was hurt and even though we claimed insurace to fix the damage, neither of our preimiums went up.

However that situation was a first for me, and I did not know what to expect, and so I made a real big deal out of nothing and everything turned out ok.

But when my husband drives the car and I am the passanger, I cringe and freeze up when the car a head of us slows down. He is a good driver (He drives in Alberta) but the image of the car hitting the one ahead of me will not go away.

I feel better when I drive, I slow WAY down when the car ahead slows, and I take my time.
While the accident may not have been my fault at all, I am FAR more cautious when I drive now.

In the immortal words of Robert Anton Wilson, "If you're not paranoid, you're not paying attention."

That's exactly how it was for me. Even at school, if I went down a certain hallway (which I didn't neccessarily have a choice), ther were always people there that would tease me or try to attack me. Sometimes it's the same thing with stores, too. The earliest time I could remember this happening was in kindergarten, shortly after we first moved to this state. Lately, it's been a lot better, but even last summer, I got the same stuff just for checking out DVDs at Blockbuster.

After a while, I began to get really freaked out that people would be there waiting for me, even if they weren't. I would cause myself to get into a meltdown from being so afraid.

Yes, big time. I wouldn't say that I'm afraid to leave the house, but sometimes I get scared that someone's going to physically attack me. Or if I meet someone new I get scared that they'll be hostile or verbally abusive towards me. It doesn't happen all of the time, but I'd say I feel this way more than half of the time. I guess I just think the whole world's out to get me

P.S. @spockezri - love, love, love your signature. Such a tune!!

I'm quite paranoid. Not that strage, considering how people have lied to me, bullied me and betrayed me. I'm not being bullied anymore, but I'm still paranoid. There's not much you really can do about it, you can only give ognoring these feelings a try.

I would say sometimes. I was paranoid for a while after I got in a car wreck and today I was very nervous to drive out in the snow because the roads were icy. But the main roads weren't too bad because the cars melt it as they drive over it and lot of the snow had blown away so there isn't even enough to make a snow man or even a snow ball.

I honestly don't know today. The fact that all these delusion, paranoia and meltdown threads are up today is getting too stressful for me, tho. Whether or not it is good to understand the fine differences between delusion and phobia, paranoia or PTSD, these topics are making me dwell on issues central to my PTSD and I'm emotionally stressed today.

Is it paranoia, where everyone is telling you that you are sane when you are filled with stress and raging emotional distress? At most, if I complain a lot, someone pushes an antidepressant at me. So what do I have? Is it healthy anger? Doesn't feel so good or healthy.

Maybe this is why some groups of people go out burning cars and rioting, when they experience injustice. It's not quite insanity, but it's not healthy, either, to feel outraged with a personalized sense of injustice. Why can't somebody give me a pill or treatment to make it go away?

So I will answer I don't think that I am, but if I were paranoid, I wouldn't know that I were, right? So while doctors tell me that there is nothing wrong with me, aside from the AS diagnosis I have nothing but attempts to diagnose my emotional distress myself! I think that if I were paranoid, (1) I wouldn't know and (2) I would be able to be fixed with some medication or something.

I'm getting too upset with these threads here today... gotta go cool down.

mostly at night, when I am half asleep-I often think weird and outwardly things...
though I am paranoid about most everything

All the time.
Mostly in social situations. I suspect people of bad intentions. I always think people are judging me poorly or making fun of me.

Small unidentified sounds wreak havoc with me too. My imagination runs away with me. I've grown out of this to an extent, but I still notice it.

Also terrible while driving. I always think that the drivers around me are trying to cause me problems.

I'm very paranoid. Walking down corridors, I think everyone glancing at me, somethings going to be wrong with me. Did I forget to brush my hair? Is my shirt right? I think they're thinking about me, talking about me. I think that shop keeper is watching me. Is that person going to approach me? Are they watching how I walk? Are they following me? I'll glance behind me carefully. Did they see me glance at them? Crap. Are they going to approach me? Will they notice if I walk faster? I'll glance at my walking to make sure I'm not stumbling. Do they think I look like a fool always looking at my feet while I walk? Is someone going to bump into me? Is that person going to attack me? Are they holding a knife? Should I take another path? Are they going to move for me or am I going to have to move out of the way for them? Am I walking on the right side on the pathway? Crap, is that car going to pull up next to me and kidnap me? Is it going to run me over? Is that person walking next to me going to push me in front of the car? Crap, I'm running late for class! Oh man is the teacher going to send me to get a late note? I don't know how to get one. Are they going to think I'm stupid and yell at me? Oh no, the corridors getting empty. What class did I have again? Better check my timetable. Is that teacher approaching me to tell me I'm in trouble, or does he think I have a weapon because I'm reaching into my pocket? Should I run away or will that make me look suspicious?