My little issue with paranoid people

I don't get the whole concept of giving a shit about weather 'they' are watching 'you' or not. Who cares? They probably are. They probably have been since before any of us were born (even when considering the 60+ year old users on this site). Somebody explain to me why I should be paranoid / the finer points of paranoia.

 

well i think people get paranoid when they think there is something that is threatening there freedom/life/loved ones but they think it's out there all the time watching them like a lion watches it's prey and when the time is right ti will strike them and...kill them?

meh..

i think people get paranoid when they think there safety is under threat...

but i get paranoid when i eat too many shrooms...but thats understandable as i am tripping out

 

Paranoia is a defense mechanism employed by the mind when it senses a threat whether real or imagined. The mind then constructs various scenarios to counter the threat.


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I think, when it gets down to it, it's just two opposing forces. It's energy, positive and negative. One does not want to change one's direction.

 

paranoia is truly paranoia when your paranoid thoughts don't seem at all paranoid. paranoia is paranoia because it feels real as fuck... and you can't rationalise yourself out of it.

im not referring so much to ongoing paranoia here, as i have no experience with that. but more fleeting paranoia, especially paranoia of someone official coming down on me when im doing something i shoudlnt

 

people dont decide to be paranoid... its not like its fun.

 

Interesting responses here. I guess I've just always wondered what goes on inside paranoid peoples' minds. Usually I can agree with everything they're paranoid about (like saying 'omg, they're watching us') but I've never really felt panic struck like they do.

 

Wow, paranoia isn't a doctrine.

 

I know. It's fun to treat it like it is though.

 

You live in Florida, there is nothing to be paranoid of lol. If you're white and don't dress ghetto or drive like an idiot cops don't fuck with you. No point in making fun of people that actually have to be paranoid.

 

It's not the government that bother me so much, it's the dead people.

 

Speaking from So. Central FL - I agree. But add a little hair or a dark tan an "Be Very Afraid".

 

I just moved here. I'm from Philly.

 

I hate it when people are paranoid.

One time me and my x were smoking and he wanted to go to sonic to get him this caramel coffee ice cream thing and when we got there their was some cops and he got all scared and paranoid and talked me into going in by myself cause he was scared cause he was high.. I was sooo pissed cause all they were doing was gettting drinks....
The cop spoke to me also.. He was hi and i was like HELLOO...

 

Here's how I see it.

I would say that as a species, we have a habit of externalizing our own mental conflicts. Maybe all species do it but I know humans do. We all see the universe like it's happening the way it does just for us, speaking to us about our life and our problems, time to time. And who can prove that it isn't?

But for a paranoid schizophrenic, who's conflict is so existential and is something that is barring them from joining life with the rest of the planet, and creating such anxiety and desperation in their minds, the kinds of things they imagine the world is telling them are twisted, awful, hellish. And it's not just suspicion, it's something backed up by synchronicity.

Ever see Suspiria?

"Bad luck is the result of mental illness" is the quote I think, and sometimes I agree.

They don't just imagine that things are after them, or that they're being watched, they experience it.

It appears as if we really do inhabit a holographic universe, a malleable dreamworld that we all help create. The world is not as solid as we were raised to believe it is. But if you're beliefs conform to what's considered normal and rational by society, that's the illusion you will be faced with and those are the rules you will have to play by.

Normalcy is a mass trip that you can subscribe to at the cost of some of your individuality and imagination. Most people live what can be described as a somewhat normal existence, with things like drinking, watching TV, organized religion, and other somatic pleasures made available to facilitate the white bread trip.

But without those things and all the rules we've made to hold it together, reality can become almost anything.

 

The more bad situations I have, the more I kick my ass on how I should have prevented them. Paranoia is just a prevention method, really.

I had the worst paranoia the other day. I was tripping at a public gas station and everybody was staring at me. I went into the bathroom, stared at the mirror for awhile (trippin out) and decided to meet up with my friends and leave. Right when we got outside (we all looked like shit, dilated pupils/big eyes) and this cop pulls right in and just stops his cruiser right next to us. We walked away with our heads facing the ground and once we got out of his site I took off into the woods and ran straight for about a mile.

 

paranoia isnt a choice, if it is, please show me the off switch lol

 

i dont thinkk i am paranoid enough.
especially about authority, and stuff of that nature.
me and my best friend cruise around doing things we shouldnt,
we carry things in medicine pouches, with bulging pockets constantly.
we make the "bad" things we do as obvious as physicallly possible
and it seems as if authority figures love us and give us special treatment.

we dont really care about anything in particular and we feel invincible
is this bad a bad thing?
be honest.

 

Good and bad is subjective but IMO it is a bad thing. What happens when you die suddenly because you dont care about anything? Sure you wont care, but all the people that love you will. Making a statement saying you "dont care about anything in particular" is being extremely selfish. Once you grow up and get out a little Im sure your ideas will change a bit.

 

I've had pretty persistent paranoia for awhile and even had a schizoaffective break, i don't think i'm schizoaffective though, i think it was just a one time incident.

Paranoia sucks and like what someone said you don't decide it and it's not at fun at all and the most characteristic thing is that usually a week, month or sometime later you realize some paranoid thoughts you have were just that, paranoid. But in that time frame i have found that i have ruined some friendships and relationships with people by either completely shutting myself off from them because i don't trust them or accusing them of things they didn't do. There is absolutely nothing fun or interesting about paranoia and I am thankful that many of the schizoaffective symptoms i have which is WAAAAAY worse paranoia have subsided. The antipsychotic drugs i've taken have absolutely terrible side effects too, so at times it is very exhuasting, debilitating, and frustrating.