Constant feeling of being on edge/aggravated/fearful?

I feel this way all day every day. Sometimes it gets so bad I avoid people and if I can't avoid people I feel like a scared little animal in the woods who freezes when they hear the tiniest little noise. Is there any way to get rid of this feeling? I don't do anything/ barely do anything all day besides sleep because I can't get myself to do anything else because the feeling is overwhelming.

That's the nature of the beast unfortunately. Have you spoken to a doctor about this? Have you tried any therapies to get over this feeling?

That's exactly how I am too. I am on short term disability through my employer since January 12, but I am seriously contemplating applying for SSDI and going into employer long term disability.

I can't leave the house more than about two hours in a week, maybe three. And even when I am home, I am often just laying down guarding myself from voices and noises. I have a thing about words. Sometimes there are just too many words and they attack me.

No I just figured it was anxiety and take Klonopin but it's more than that. I see my doctor in a week though.

i was like this and i guess i still am. i absolutely hate dealing with people/going out in public. i am constantly paranoid and annoyed. i think i am annoyed because i am paranoid. i do not enjoy random questions from strangers. these feelings are internal, on the outside i seem fine. maybe a bit awkward to the general public but i don't really care what they think of me - only if they are trying to attack me/collect information.
what i do, is just do the things i have to do regardless if i don't want to - i am a single mother who is unmedicated and i have bills and rent and things to do. i cannot let this mental disorder cripple me. life is really rough for me, but i just push push push myself. before i had my child, i laid in bed all day listening to all the bs the voices had to say - was very damaging. the thing is; i was medicated and i had a job. the walk to the bus stop, the bus, work, lunch, everything was absolutely terrible. i was constantly being followed and when i would return from work, everything in my apartment would be moved around, furniture and all, things in my refrigerator i did not buy, things left on the counters that i did not put there... so even in my own home i was paranoid. if i wasn't laying in bed i was sitting on the floor staring at the walls. revving engines in the parking lot, conversations of people walking by my apartment - all of it was damaging and eventually i had to check myself into a hospital after i took all of my seroquel. i took all of my seroquel and still survived, i was hoping i died so everything would stop - instead nothing stopped and i was still paranoid but for whatever reason, checked myself into the hospital - because despite everything, i knew i needed help.
shmooey - i too had a thing with words, i swore that graffiti had hidden messages and would spend a lot of time reading walls - writing replies. and when i was at work, they once had me organizing brand names and every brand name was a message into my past/meant something from my past and had a message about my future. all of my co-workers were collecting information. so i would hardly speak to anyone and all of their conversations were directed at me even though they were not talking to me. even the customers conversations were directed at me, the things they would do, how they would pick things up...
that was a really hard time in my life and i honestly have no idea how i got out of that. anyway, now i'm rambling. thanks for reading. kthnxbye. hahah.

I deal with this everyday. I hope you feel better☀️

I'm the same way. Sometimes, I think of it as a people allergy. Until I recently, I thought I was different than everyone else with sza. It's a relief to know I'm not.

I know that some people have the bipolar type and others, like me, have the depressive type. Does that make a difference in who socializes? I know now that this is probably silly, but I've always figured that people with BP have cleaner homes b/c they have more energy sometimes.