So I know paranoia is a common feeling when it comes to bipolar and I’ve had small paranoid feelings before but nothing like this. I’ve had the occasional 'something is going to happen' or I’ve got that whole ‘someone is out there’ feeling, but today it’s a full on different story. I fell like people are following me everywhere I go since I left the house to go to work today and now that I’m at work I feel like whoever is on the phone is asking about me. Things like ‘have I left work?’ or ‘Am I still at my desk?’. It’s making it hard to concentrate and I’m having panic attack signs like the tightness in my chest, the shaking hands, the knotted stomach, the urge to breakdown and cry while locking myself in my office.

I guess my question is how do you all deal with something like this? Is there away to deal with this other then inpatient because that gives me a whole new set of paranoid feelings. Am I just nuts or am I actually paranoid for a good reason?