I have a lot of paranoia as the result of my PTSD.

I also have justified fears about my ex-employer doing vindictive things to ruin my reputation in the community. Even though there are many people who respect me and speak highly of me in my industry and community, my former employer is very vindictive and will do things to try and ruin a person's chances. I'll give an example. Recently a temporary employee expressed sympathy for another employee who was fired from the organization on the fired employee's Facebook page. Pretty much only saying how sorry they were to see what happened to them. When the temp employee's supervisor recommended bringing them on full-time permanently, the CEO said that this person was unemployable because they had expressed sympathy for the fired co-worker. The fired co-worker has started their own organization, and has reached out to some of the employees at my former employer to have them come in and do some freelance work. Normally it's totally okay for them to do that freelance work; but because it's this employee, if anyone does, they will be fired immediately.

But because of that situation, I'm very paranoid about what former co-workers might be saying about me, even though I know it would all be lies.

So, to be clear, I'm not asking for career advice or how to behave on the job. What I am curious is: how do you counter act the disordered paranoid thinking? It's not just something I can turn off by saying: I didn't do anything wrong...I mean, that's why it's disordered thinking, because it doesn't add up.

I've worked on a lot of coping skills in therapy, but before I lost my insurance, paranoia was not really one of the things we talked about..and it's really intensified more of late.

So how do you get your paranoid thinking under control?

Thanks,
Seesaw