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Old Feb 28, 2011, 01:34 PM
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A fear of everyone else's intentions. Are they bad? Are they good?

A fear that people will steal things from you.

A fear that you are being watched, that there might be cameras where you can't see them.

A fear that people will sneak into your house and hide in closets, places you can't see them.

I guess I just want to know if anyone out there shares my fears.

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Old Feb 28, 2011, 04:00 PM
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Those are legitimate fears but not fears that I have experienced personally. Have you talked with your therapist about these fears? Have you talked with your pdoc about these fears? You may need to have your diagnosis checked and see about altering medications if these fears are keeping you from normal activities of life.
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Old Feb 28, 2011, 04:32 PM
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I don't think these are typical fears. They sound a bit on the side of paranoia and delusion. Perhaps you should discuss these with your therapist or pdoc. They may be able to help you deal with these.
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Old Feb 28, 2011, 04:52 PM
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I agree, these fears are to close to paranoid or delusional for comfort. Make sure theres no true meaning behind them, is anyone truely threatening you? But surely talk with the pdoc, as its not healthy to have these feelings.
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Old Feb 28, 2011, 05:24 PM
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A fear of everyone else's intentions. Are they bad? Are they good?
Yes.... never able to have a conversation with anybody without second guessing what they say, what I say, what they may be thinking, etc etc.

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A fear that people will steal things from you.
Yes, when my son was little I thought he might be taken away from me by various agencies, or that he might be kidnapped and sold as a slave because he was such a beautiful blond haired boy. I also was scared that people were going to break into my house and steal my pets, and my musical instrument.

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A fear that you are being watched, that there might be cameras where you can't see them.
Yes, to the extent that I climbed into our attic, looking for bugs, and thought I'd found them, saw cameras in the cracks on the ceiling, and put duct tape over them so they couldn't "see." I used to walk round the house with the radio tuned to static, because I thought when it squealed that told me where there was a bug. And I climbed a lampost after the council came out to fix it, because I thought they might have put a camera on it to look at our home.

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A fear that people will sneak into your house and hide in closets, places you can't see them.
Never had that one.
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I guess I just want to know if anyone out there shares my fears.
I think your fears are probably common, but it depends how often you think about them, and how intense those thoughts are. If you occasionally think something irrational, and then shrug it off, that's one thing. If you're constantly looking for bugs, taking apart the plug sockets, climbing lamposts, and looking over your shoulder for pet stealers, or deciding not to leave the house so nobody will take your animals when you're up the shops, then it's a problem.

Only you know how disruptive these things are to your life. It's worth talking to your doctor about these things. It's when I finally came clean about this kind of thing that I got a proper diagnoses, and medication that finally brought my symptoms under control.
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