Hi, everyone...1st timer (thanks!). As a longtime anxious, "pure obsessive" person, I have been given an explanation recently that as my anxiety ramps up, so does one of its by-products paranoia, which resulted for me in more intense paranoia than before.

Also, the same goes for my first-time psychotic symptoms, mainly hallucinations. I pose the questions 1st: have you noticed this correlation and 2) do you think anxiety seems like a valid explanation for your own paranoia or psychotic symptoms intensifying, rather than something else? I realize there are many causes for all of the above but thanks for your ideas!