Alright. SO. I'm an extremely paranoid person. I never used to be. It kind of just developed and became worse and worse as the years went by. I'm not 23 years old and so INSANELY paranoid that its hard for me to do day to day things. Even going outside can be hard on certain days. I don't use drugs, not anymore anyway. I can't even smoke pot because it makes my paranoia 10x worse. I meditate but it only helps a bit. Any suggestions? I hate the idea of having to take prozac or some kind of med for it (I'm pretty much anti-meds) but I fear I might have no choice..
ever try yoga mama? this helped me. or maybe talk to a therapist.. sometimes just getting your feelings out there to someone unrelated can help love you
Look at what the people around you do and then at the things that you do, the things that scream paranoid tend to be paranoid and try to act like the people you are around; that's what I have to do when I smoke schwagg but I gave that up for the most part after I started hearing voices. Definitely try the yoga idea, the effect of yoga on the body never cease to amaze.
what do you think will happen when you have these feelings....do those around you in RL know about this problem
Build a fortress made out of logs in your backyard. Buy an antique gatling gun. Hang "Do not trespass" signs all over the outside.
See a psychiatrist. I was going to suggest meditating and yoga but if those don't work, nothing that anybody here will tell you will either.
Paranoia comes from excessive thought about the future, things that CAN happen, MIGHT happen, etc, or from the past, bad experiences you have had and have gotten in the habit of expecting to happen again. The thing is to put your attention into the present moment. Use your senses. What do you see, hear, smell? Watch those fearful thoughts as they come and go and keep putting yourself back into the present. There is peace in the now if you can allow yourself to find it. Read some Eckhart Tolle. He has helped me immensely with my paranoia. It's a common problem. Most people live in different states of fear and dread. You need to train yourself to take all that mental garbage with a grain of salt. It's just illusions and nonentities. Once you understand that, you can enter more into the golden moment and just be. Meditation helps if you use it to enter the present through concentrating on breathing, the silence and your feeling of and in your body. Consciousness doesn't come automatically. You need to practice it.
Don't want to freak you out, but maybe you've developed paranoid schizophrenia. I believe that age is prime for it.
What a beautilful reply... I think parniora is related to ansixity and stress,, exercise is the cure..belive me.. in both body and mind....