[comicgeek007]

It's usually about people's intentions or what they think about me, and often I know it's irrational but I feel really paranoid about people I interact with anyway. Does anyone else get that?

[~Christina]

Yes. Only solution I have found is just using my grounding skills. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.

[A Red Panda]

Yep. I get paranoid about what other people are thinking of me all the time. I try to tack on "Well, sometimes you think not-very-pleasant stuff about other people too. It's OK!" to try to stop myself from getting really nervous or down about it.

[Moose72]

I think people are after me.

[ultramar]

Originally Posted by comicgeek007

It's usually about people's intentions or what they think about me, and often I know it's irrational but I feel really paranoid about people I interact with anyway. Does anyone else get that?

I think a lot of people make negative assumptions about what other people think of them and their intentions, without it being 'paranoia' -which is on a very very extreme end of this and you quite literally (you do not think it's irrational) think people are out to get you.

I make the distinction because if it is due to, for example, issues related to self-esteem, trust, and other psychological issues, there's no pill for that --but therapy can help a lot to change those thought patterns and find out where they're coming from.

I get like this sometimes (quite apart from 'episodes') and it really is awful, and can make it difficult to interact with people. Therapy has helped me a lot with it.

[BipolaRNurse]

Yeah, I get paranoid when I'm manic, although I think it's more a projection than anything. I'll think that people are pointing at me and whispering about how crazy I'm acting and conspiring to make me FEEL like I'm crazy. The other thing is that my general distrust of the federal government gets stronger and a little more outlandish. LOL

[Victoria'smom]

I get paranoid that I'm going to get locked away when manic

[bipolarOne79]

I can most certainly relate to the paranoia, I deal with it all the time. I will think my family is out to get me and that everyone else is too. It gets really bad.

[jesusplay]

It's dark, I had to get something out of my car. I'm in a safe area virtually no crime, yet I'm looking behind me, I feel like someone or something is watching me. I go back into my apartment, all the lights are off. I see a figure out the corner of my eye, my heart begins to pound, I'm breathing erratically. It's nothing, I feel like something is still here in my apartment, waiting for me to leave my room again so it or they can pounce on me. I'm safe inside my room with the door closed. Nighttime is a freighting time of day for me. I'm 21. This only started like about 16 months ago.

I'm paranoid if I'm off my meds. I relate.

[venusss]

Yeah. But I am too paranoid to share what I am paranoid about.

Sometimes I lose a little touch with reality and think people are out to get me. Not physically, because anyone can do that very easily, but mentally, like they're in the process of brainwashing me to control my thoughts (especially T), or that they're just evil psychopaths playing evil games with me. It seems plausible to me when it happens, right now it just sounds silly. I have improved a lot with my worrying, so I don't worry much about what people think of me anymore (I don't often get anxious about being judged), but the paranoia is as bad as ever.

[middlepath]

Yes. I get paranoid thoughts. I actually didn't realize the depth of what they were until recently when I started learning about psychosis. Now that I know, I can rewrite my thoughts off as irrational. Paranoia is insidious and horrifying at times. Me no like!

[TippPatt]

Oh yeah - I get paranoid more than I care to admit. Sometimes when someone is near and looking at something, if it's anywhere in my direction I just know they are staring at me.

Talk about freaking uncomfortable. MAN !

[Diversion]

I do get paranoid. My husband had severe paranoia so I know mine is not that bad. But I do , at times, feel paranoia like with the media and politics especially.

I get paranoid often. When my husband goes somewhere I think he's up to something, that he's meeting someone on the side(he tends to be late from work often and he always has an excuse). when I see my doctor I think he wants to keep giving me drugs because that's what he does. when I', at the store I think security is watching me and following me around, I can't hardly go shopping alone.when I ride the train I'm afraid i will have my purse stolen or that I will be mugged.I take medications so I don't know what's up sometimes. I feel more comfortable being at home alone if Im not somewhere with my husband.

[LadyShadow]

I get paranoid often. I had an attack today when I went outside with the laptop and I thought a tree branch would fall and break the computer because it was so windy outside. I ran back in the house. I don't get too many paranoia attacks around people anymore, they are mostly inanimate objects or the weather that scare me. Like during Hurricane Sandy I hid in my basement because I was afraid the big tree outside my window would fall on me.

[TippPatt]

My sister just set me off. Darn, I hate that.

[babychicken73]

I do. It's somewhat annoying but at the same time I feel like it is for the better, like a way to protect myself? idk.
100mg Lamictal
20mgXR Adderall
150Mg Wellbutrin
-I feel like I need to increase my dosage or something. My Mania has been gone. at least how I am used to it being. now I am just depressed and only have mini mania. hah. everyday I go from angry to having anxiety to feeling decent/happy/lucky, depressed and worthless and like there is no point to my life. which sucks bc I have two boys that are 1&2 years old.
I am struggling with telling my neuropsychologist doc that I feel like the meds aren't working as well as they used to.
Really though, my paranoia has been to the point to where I told my husband I don't even want friends around anymore and I am having so many problems with my husband as well. I feel like he is just faking how he feels and is lying. I feel like there is always someone or something peeking over my shoulder.
supposed to be depressed/have anxiety, ADHD and bipolar. but im starting to question my diagnoses. I feel like I could be somewhat a schizophrenic but idk.

[olivearchaeology]

I am completely paranoid when it comes to what people think about me or their intentions with me. So I have a lot of trust issues. That's pretty much the extent of my issues.

[faerie_moon_x]

Yes, today I am very paranoid actually. I am thinking everything is going terribly and falling apart around me. I'm trying to determin if I'm paranoid or if it is logical.

Today I have the feeling I am going to lose my family. It's very powerful.

I often feel people at work are plotting behind my back to make sure I get fired. When people whisper I think it's about me. When they laugh I think they are laughing at me. I feel like my neighbors are spying on me (one of them actually is, my aunt who lives next door.) But also my other neighbors. I don't think they are in conjunction with each other or working together. I pretty much feel everyone has their own agenda and is after me and often also my family.