are you stressed? you were homeless for a while, right? Maybe all that low status and terror left a mark that's gonna take some time to heal?

I ask because I was terrorized by a small town when I was low status and such. I think its part of the reason I experience paranoia now, part of the reason why I do better on a tranquilizer than other psych drugs, etc. I read somewhere that terror--and being low status, stigmatized, poor, homeless, etc. can lead to absolute terror--is at the core of the psychotic experience for a lot of people, especially in "Schizophrenia."

Anyway, ElsaMars has made some good points. The way I see it (lately...) may be "mentally ill," but a lot of other people around me are straight up vicious and genuinely crazy.