when does paranoia become a problem?!
Question: When does paranoia become a problem?
The reasons why they they think im paranoid:
I think people are angry at me a lot of the time when others say they aren't. My reasoning for this is i think people seem 'off' with me at times and it worries me that maybe i did something to upset them.
I fell out with a flatmate a couple months ago and she's much closer to my other flatmates than i am and ive been too scared to go down and talk to any of them because i think they might have been talking about me/see me differently now.
When i did fall out with me flatmate she made a remark.. ''I'm sorry but everything you've said here is either ridiculous or not the truth and yet again I'm left thinking that you have to get your life in order if you can't remember everything as it happened''
I sometimes think people are talking laughing and pointing at me which makes me feel really uncomfortable and usually leave the situation.
I stay away from crowded areas cause im scared of a terrorist attack.. occasionally get off buses for this reason too and walk the rest of the way.
Overly worry about my friends/family apparently. If someone doesn't show to a lecture when they said they'd be there i often think the worst and try make sure they're definitely okay. Once my lecturer was even late and people laughed saying i was being paranoid when i wondered if maybe something had happened on her way up cause she was rushing and it was bad weather outside..i think that's reasonable!
They tell me i'm too inside my head a lot of the time and my imagination gets the better of me.
I understand where they're coming from with some things. I realize that some of what i think/so is slightly irrational but is this a problem?
I know im sounding like a really self centered person here but it's just the question im asking involved saying everything about me that would make me sound like this. In reality the majority of the time i don't express any of these beliefs or go to people with any of these problems as i realize everyone has their issues and i never like to burden people with mine but obviously some of the things i say to my friends if making them called me paranoid.
So when do you think normal everyday worried become a problem with paranoia?
Does this sound like a problem?
If so what should i do about it?
Thankyou for reading.
Answers:
Your a worry wart like me. Yeah man its completely annoying. Thinking to much is the problem i made my own disorder for it OTD (Over Thinking Disorder) and i get it something chronic at least i used to. The reason it stopped/slowed down was because i talked to my friends and expressed my worried feelings towards them then i felt silly for worrying so much. That was the process for me. Rinse and repeat. Eventually it just got stuck in my head that i thought to much about how people are and how outrageous the things i was thinking were. Believe me it was a very long process but I never got a therapist because that would make me feel crazy and i don't want to feel crazy.
I still do at times get so worried i cannot control how I'm feeling and go into the regular process of thinking is it was that absurd or if it actually is a reality. I deal with it but i also tell people that i worry a lot, it helps. Heh i even told my friend that i haven't seen for ages that i worry a lot he replied "I know" strange how i got comfort from my friend knowing that without me telling him.
O yeah i do still get the odd thought like when im driving i think a car will be coming around the corner on my side of the road or that dodgey looking person has something concealed. Boy does that get the adrenaline running.
Who knows man thats what I did. Its up to you what you want to do.
The smarter you are the more likely you are to have a mental condition. Its annoying...
you may need a trerapist, maybe u have OCD(obssesive compulsive disorder) try see this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_disorder, i hope it helps u and also if u like to learn more http://www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/guide/obsessive-compulsive-disorder :)