Who Else Has Paranoia?

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The main thing I am paranoid about are one the FBI is after me and two the aliens are after me. I love the gov! They love to spy on innocent people and accuse people of stuff. I didn't do it!

That depends, if I have had a problem with someone I am paranoid that they will spread rumors about me and therefore everyone else will hate me. And my paranoia for this case is justified because it did actually happen.

Yes. Undoubtedly. I think it comes from a lifetime of having been a little odd and different and that means you can become a bit of a target or laughingstock. i almost pre-empt it these days in the sense that i have a radar for ridicule and spend countless hours wokring out if someone i have had an exhchange with meant any harm by their words. I take things literally and then go away and try to dissect the words and find the mysterious hidden meanings that are a part of most peoples' verbal/social life.

I am told i am paranoid. I work on trying not to be. oh well.......

Mine too!

Is the "paranoia" from social anxiety -- having negative expectations after having experienced abusive social behavior, is that really paranoia, or is it simply low expectations (reading, interpreting bullying, lying and betrayal into other people's behavior too much).

Good question - I believe it's a little bit of both.

My paranoia rate is quite high.

I dunno. I was bullied and manipulated to an extent at school and college, and those people who weren't getting at me treated me like I was from another planet most of the time, (which was probably fair enough; I was very weird), so I guess that pushed paranoia on me.

I find it spills over though, beyond the point where experience would have me worry about something. Experience says "be worried about someone", paranoia says "I know I'm right to worry about someone!" and usually (in my case, these days) turns out afterwards to be not only unfounded, but idiotically unfounded. I'll attribute motives to someone that make no sense, and believe in them totally. It's very annoying, but as with most things I think I'm slowly growing out of it.

i only get it when i have really bad anxiety, paranioa is really awful. being paraniod and depressed? oh you dont even want to know

I get paranoid at times. Usually when I'm on my own and the lights are off.

This makes sense for me, too. With some exceptions! I suppose it would be better to train to do more screening and reality checks before becoming defensive.

Oh yes. But with good reason. I'm paranoid about food and water, mind control, aliens and the government, and people in general.

I may get very paranoid with other paranoid people. Either to pre-empt the paranoia or just simply upstage them. Like my younger sister is paranoid with just about everybody so I often get extremely paranoid with her. My late father was also very paranoid so it kind of runs in the family.

Also people with irrational beliefs just as those young earth creationists I have a tendancy (and I feel justified with this paranoia) to dismiss them as terrorists because I feel they are just as bad as those who have such irrational beliefs as to blow themselves up on a bus packed with poeple and believe they will be rewarded with 72 virgins and sitting on the right side of Allah in Paradise. I might be tempted to say to people like that "you would not be one of those fundamentists AKA terrorists by any chance would you?". I really have to bite my paranoid tongue with them.

It would be fair to say I only get paranoid about paranoia

That is a lot like me, if I have problems with anyone, I start to wonder "who is gonna be the next one to start creating this bs, and I start to work myself slowly towards a meltdown... Fortunatly, I have never been in that situation since I have left the areas where the people who like to prey on the vulnerable are found.

Your poll is bias, people with paranoias will be attracted to this thread more then others who do not have them.

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Another paranoia thing I have sometimes is scaring people off or I have scared someone off. I am afraid I will say the wrong things to them or I have done something wrong because they aren't answering or I don't see them online again. There are actually very few people online I feel comfortable with I can open up and not worry about what they will think. I should try and open up with everyone and not be afraid because that is a way to tell who your true friends are or what kind of people they are.