thankfully I only go thru periods where I get paranoid thoughts. I don't know what triggers it, it lasts a couple weeks and then it is gone for a couple months. mine is an overwhelming sense that I am going to get in trouble. the cops are out to get me, im going to get evicted, im going to end up in court. things that have no basis in reality yet I cant stop obsessing over them. but because I am well grounded in acceptance of the fact that I am mentally ill, I can let the thoughts not have power over me by explaining to myself that this is all part of my illness and none of this bad stuff is going to happen to me.