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Feb 05, 2010, 05:16 PM
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Member Since: Feb 2007
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,611
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JayS  I get paranoid and start thinking in a delusional way when I am under too much stress (and for me, it takes very little stress to be "too much") or I am feeling to anxious or depressed.
I would tell her how you are feeling and explain that you do have this tendency to paranoid thinking, so that "you really need her help in being honest with you" if she has had any negative feelings towards you.
Usually now I can when it's me, when my thinking has gone haywire because this kind of conspiratorial or paranoid thinking will start building up in me as things go wrong, little stressors add up. Also there will be no real ACTIONS on the part of the other person I'm starting to feel uneasy about, it'll just be my perception and my feelings about them.
If I nip things in the bud by talking about it, and by doing all the things I can do - using all the coping techniques I know - to take care of myself and reduce any conscious or unscious stress or PTSD feelings I'm having, then I start feeling better and can discern what the truth is.
I have to get enough rest every day, eat well, take my meds as perscribed, get a bit of exercise, spend enough time alone to feel relaxed and calm, try to live in the present by taking things one day or one hour at a time. Likewise you need to do what ever it is that makes you feel healthy, relaxed and happy.
We all have to deal with stuff we don't like to every day. But when your paranoid or delusional thinking starts acting up, you need to really keep negative things to a minimum. Pamper yourself, treat yourself like you would a good friend who wa feeling the way you are. I hope you get this figured out and resolved soon. 
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