Paranoia?

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I wonder if what you're calling paranoia is a anxiety attack. My psychiatrist explained to me that what most people refer to as a panic attack, is really an anxiety attack. The difference is there's no real reason for a panic attack to happen, and that an anxiety attack has something that stresses one out to the point of being upset. I think that it's a matter of the media using terms like paranoia and panic attack to describe what for most people, would be an anxiety attack, leading to a lot of confusion.

i believe that people who have "anxiety attacks" have a problem reconciling that there is no immediate danger due to their overlooking something.
they sense impending peril due to their distrust of the security of their way of being.

but paranoia is borne in delusion and a sense of grandeur.
it is a vastly more fundamental deficit than "anxiety" which is lack of trust in the security of a guarantee of ritual repetition of a way of life that they feel comfortable with.

paranoics are "thought disordered", and i am so glad i am not in that boat.

Sometimes I can be a little paranoid, to the point of it crippling me, but it's always been confirmed till now. I'm paranoid with good reason.

People who have anxiety attacks, have an over active Amygalda. In other words, it's nothing more than a simple Neurodiversity.

Akajohnnyx, the only part I was being sarcastic about was the Austin Powers and the Dr. Evil part. The paranoia part is real. I am not joking.

I'm very paranoid all the time. It's taking over my life, and is making me hate being me. I'm so worried about what everyone else are thinking of me, I even forget to exist. By that I mean, I'm on job-seekers at the moment, but I'm taking so long looking for a job because I'm just always thinking of other people and what they're thinking, so I'm not concentrating on my life. I'm scared to arrange an interview because I'm just scared that the interviewer(s) might think I'm some sort of idiot, even though I don't act it (well, I don't think I do....). But I get paranoied by things people tell me. Like someone once told me that others can sense that I'm odd even without me doing anything - and that has set it all off. And being a young 20 year old woman doesn't help, because most other young women and teenagers look at you all the time to judge what you're wearing and what you look like. It's just a stupid thing what is in women. And that makes me paranoid, because sometimes people really look at me and snigger to themselves, as though I've just done something really embarrassing and stupid - even though I'm just standing there looking cool and normal. So I wonder if they really do sense that I must be weird in some sort of way.

Also, I hate being the one to have to wait in for the gas man to come, or for the electrician to come, because I keep on thinking they will come in and look at me and think, ''who this stupid girl who lives here?'' I know it's just my narrow thinking and I know I'm being a trifle silly, but it's just the way I've been thinking about myself lately. Like at the charity shop where I volunteer, it said on the rota sheet which volunteer can supervise, and everyone's name was on the list except for mine - and I've been there longer than all them and I can work really fast. So again that's made me paranoid and also a bit hurt, because that must mean the manager was thinking, ''we won't let Josie supervise because she's a crap volunteer.''

So there are a lot of reasons as to why I am a paranoid person.

I get paranoid sometimes and one time for good reason-someone was out to get me in trouble where I work and almost succeeded-trying to get me fired.-I remember an old saying from a comedian--"Just because your paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you"

f**k sake, it's really annoying when you find a good topic what you've got a lot to explain about yourself in, and you find it's ran out of date 2 years ago.

lets bring it back

but ya, def got the paranoia. Naturally distrusting of basically everyone. Their intentions, what they think about me, etc.I get very obsessive thinking out so and so bad thing happening and that causes me a lot anxiety. Was practically paralyzed and almost even physically sick for week before flying for the first time I flew after 9/11 last year.(not that 9/11 was the reason why, flying is just scary as hell) Thought that the plane was gunna crash or that terrorists were gunna blow it up. Completely irrational stuff.

Yeh I'm scared of that too. I'm not scared of flying itself, but I'm just frightened that the airoplanes going to crash or something. That's why I won't go anywhere out of Europe, because I don't like flying over miles and miles of sea - I like to stay above land. It's just part of my paranoia.

I get paranoid about everyone and everything.

Its not a problem there are more people on wrong planet now then 2 years ago so the new people may not have seen the post and may want to comment.