[Mountaindewed]

I am a very paranoid person. But, I feel like people are out to get me. And I've had 3 incidents happen to me.

The first time it happend was in 2014 or 2015. I was walking in a store and I was holding on to something I wanted to buy. This man walked up to me and got really close, and then tried grabbing something. I'm not sure if he was trying to grab me or what I had in my hand. I pulled back, and he said "Sorry, I thought you worked here. So he knew he was trying to do something. I didn't tell anyone, because thearapists have told me that they don't believe me when I tell them that stuff. So I just kept it to myself.

Then late last year, my mom and I were in a parking lot, and this guy came up to our car and was smiling in a strange way, and he was holding a box. He was smiling and pointing to the box. We got out of there fast. I just tried to put this incident out of my mind.

Then at a restaurant a couple of years ago, these two guys kept looking over at our table. They were acting very odd, and they were just staring at us the whole time. When we got up to pay, they got up to pay. And we left they left and I was so scared they were going to rob us. But they just gave us a mean laugh and waved at us and walked in the other direction. I did tell my thearapist about this particular incident, but she refused to believe it happened, and said I was probably doing something that would cause them to make fun of me. I wasn't doing anything. My dad had just died a week ago. So maybe I looked upset? Because I was?

I'm going to talk to my current therapist about these incidents. I know I might be extremely paranoid, but some people do take advantage of me and some people are out to get me.

Seriously, who has a logic explanation for the first incident I mentioned?

[Thunder Bow]

Those incidents sound real to me. If your Therapist is acting the way you say she does, best to move on to a new Therapist.

Not sure those random incidents are evidence that people are "out to get you." Usually that phrase means these people know you and are planning in advance ways to cause you problems and are doing multiple things to you to cause your demise. These incidents are a) open to interpretation a bit since nothing really happened to you in any of them and b) very random and isolated rather than preplanned and c) not very frequent if these 3 incidents since 2014 are all that have happened.

[eyesclosed]

I don't have a problem believing you. I think it probably happened. Sometimes it seems certain people have a season in there life of bad weird and strange. Everyone always thinks they are ---------- and it's just life.

[-jimi-]

Sometimes really weird things happen that are hard to find an explanation to. Usually there is one but we will never know. The people that looked at you angrily for example, could have had you mixed up with someone looking like you, they might have thought you were someone else. Sometimes people just mess around, it happens.

[reb569]

It may be that your interpretation of those events is impacted by your paranoia, but that doesn't mean they didn't happen.

A quick story from my perspective. When my daughter was about 3 years old, we had returned home from somewhere, and as I turned onto our road I noticed a SUV parked at the end of the road (I live out in the Country). I pulled into my driveway and had gotten my daughter out of the car, and I was walking towards the house with her just behind me. The SUV drove into our driveway. This man gets out and starts walking towards us. He was looking right at my daughter, not me. My instinct went into action and I quickly walked to her and picked her up. Then the man looked at me and told me he just wanted to explain that he was sitting at the end of the road doing an investigation and he wanted me to know why he was there and was hoping I wouldn't call the police. I said ok, went in the house with my daughter and locked my door. That always spooked me. A few months later there was a drug bust of someone who lived about a mile away that was traveling that road to make deals, so -- who knows.

I hope your current therapist is at least willing to listen to your experiences and not write them off as not being real.

[-jimi-]

Gawd. It is so easy to interpret things wrong. Me and friend drove out to the countryside where they aren't use to outside cars. Usually we're just left to ourselves, no one reacted. But once we saw a light turning on and a car started. We felt creeped out and we started driving back to the city. He followed us for a long time, at every turn he also turned. At that point I was a little disturbed. I felt he might be hostile. But I also thought maybe HE was disturbed too because we were not all too far from his house and maybe he was puzzled about us and decided to find out?

Came out nothing of that was the reason. He finally turned at the gas station, he had only gone in for gas and stuff and that was the last we saw of him. The rest was just in my head.

It may depend on where you live, I guess.
Environments can cause people to behave in various ways.
It sounds like your environment is... intrusive, in a way. Have you found that a common pattern in your environment?

[avlady]

i had and have things like that happen to me every day especially when i lived in the city, downtown area. i moved to the country and not much has happened since thank God!!

[MickeyCheeky]

Well, I don't know if they've had bad intentions.. still, it's pretty rude of your T to say that those things just never happened

[HeatherMercado]

Yes, I agree with you that environment can cause people to behave differently in different situation. I have noticed this things in many people.

[Mountaindewed]

I actually live in one of the top 100 safest cities in the USA And in the top 5 safest cities in my state. I have to remind myself that the only crimes to ever happened in my city was domestic and what really are the chances of something happening? I just really worry. I did tell my current thearapist. She said that there are just werid people out there, and these incidents were real and it was not paranoia, but that I shouldn't worry. I think I may have Paranoid Personality disorder. Or at least traits.

I think it's all coincidence and that there is nothing to worry about.
You have pretty solid reasons to worry, but it sounds like a matter of coincidence.