Is anybody dealing with paranoia?

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Welcome to the world of social phobia! If i didn't suffer from what you mentioned i wouldn't be a member of this site. I just try to think that i am no different to anyone else i suppose.

Lol, Im paranoid that people I know/knew will visit this forum and realize who I am and that I have issues! Well, more of a mixture between fear and paranoia I suppose.

But yeah, I have varying levels of paranoia for a few things.

Yup paranoid here.

The paranoia i've had these past few years was helped in development by my chronic daily marijuana use throughout my teens. Can't touch the shit now.

I think in social anxiety we have the physical and mental symptoms. Paranoia is a huge part of the mental ones.

Yep, if it all seems rediculous it probably is rediculous.

Nina09 said:

I often feel paranoid. If I go in public, i feel as if people are constantly watching me, judging me and laughing at me. I feel like they are scrutinizing everything I do and say.

I have used CBT to help me realize that this logically isn't the case, but it still feels very real.

Is anybody else dealing with this? How do you deal with it and did you find a way to overcome it?

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I used to feel that way everytime I left my home and it made everything so uncomfortable. I don't know if you do this, but one thing I used to do was look at everyone trying to see if they were laughing at me or judging me, and at some point I realised that the only reason they would be doing this was because I was staring at them. Now I just mind my own business, listen to my ipod while walking or riding the subway and everything goes smoothly.

Met a girl called lola and I took her back to my place
Feelin guilty, feelin scared, hidden cameras everywhere
Stop! hold on. stay in control

Girl, I want you here with me
But Im really not as cool as Id like to be
cause theres a red, under my bed
And theres a little yellow man in my head
And theres a true blue inside of me
That keeps stoppin me, touchin ya, watchin ya, lovin ya

Paranoia, the destroyer.
Paranoia, the destroyer.

Well I fell asleep, then I woke feelin kinda queer
Lola looked at me and said, ooh you look so weird.
She said, man, theres really something wrong with you.
One day youre gonna self-destruct.
Youre up, youre down, I cant work you out
You get a good thing goin then you blow yourself out.

Silly boy ya self-destroyer. silly boy ya self-destroyer

Silly boy you got so much to live for
So much to aim for, so much to try for
You blowing it all with paranoia
Youre so insecure you self-destroyer

(and it goes like this, here it goes)
Paranoia, the destroyer
(here it goes again)
Paranoia, the destroyer

Dr. dr. help me please, I know youll understand
Theres a time device inside of me, Im a self-destructin man
Theres a red, under my bed
And theres a little green man in my head
And he said, youre not goin crazy, youre just a bit sad
cause theres a man in ya, knawin ya, tearin ya into two.

Silly boy ya self-destroyer.
Paranoia, the destroyer

Self-destroyer, wreck your health
Destroy friends, destroy yourself
The time device of self-destruction
Light the fuse and start eruption

(yea, it goes like this, here it goes)
Paranoia, the destroyer
(heres to paranoia)
Paranoia, the destroyer
(hey hey, here it goes)
Paranoia, the destroyer
(and it goes like this)

Paranoia, the destroyer
(and it goes like this.)

Yes when someone is laughing I always get this feeling that is about me or when a group are talking among themselves I get the feeling that its about me
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I was put on Olanzapine because I described to my psychiatrist that I felt sometimes I was a bit like Truman from "The Truman Show" (a movie staring Jim Carrey.) His whole life was a set-up, basically, and everything he did was broadcast to the 'real world.' I never believed the feeling enough to act on it though... just a bit of paranoia.

I also have the whole web cam fear. I disabled mine within Windows.

WelshOne said:

I also have the whole web cam fear. I disabled mine within Windows.

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i have a simular problem, i think there are cameras in my bedroom and the bathroom. and now i go to the bathroom in the dark.

very werid i know.

I also sometimes feel there are cameras in my room, its annoying when i have to check everywhere until i go to bed

Every day of my life! I don't even own a web cam because my mind gets the best of me! I sleep with the blinds shut and gained 30 lbs. of muscle to look more intimidating when walking by myself at night (and to annihilate any midnight goul that I feel I will run into that is not intimidated) and I hate it when people are talking quietly or laghing while looking in my general direction, I loose my head! I could keep goin on but I'm sure anyone reading this knows what I mean.

michaeln said:

I also sometimes feel there are cameras in my room, its annoying when i have to check everywhere until i go to bed

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Yeah, I get the same **** sometimes. I searched my dorm room for cameras before because I thought my room-mates where laughing at me from there rooms. I guess this is a extreme extension of thinking everybody is laughing at you when you outside in public.