I had a mental breakdown about a month ago while riding the bus. I was convinced that people were after me, or that people were trying to frame me.

One month later I'm on Risperidone, and I'm taking the bus to and back from school again. While it isn't as bad as it was before, it's still a struggle. I'm very self conscious of everything I do in public, I feel generally uncomfortable (I wasn't always like this), and it takes a lot of effort on my part to keep my thoughts focused. The whole time, I'll have this tightness/discomfort in my chest that is tied to my anxiety.

And at the back of my mind, that anxiety never really fades, despite how dulled down it gets.

How do I get back to where I was a year ago? Where thoughts of paranoia didn't even exist and the world was such a different place?