I feel so paranoid lately. I dont know why. I feel like something bad is going to happen. The other day i was freakign out because i thought i was on a boat and we were all going to drown. then the day of the colorado shooting i went to the movies and i was so scared and paranoid that the theater was going to fill up with water and that we would all drown. I was so nervouse the whole movie. I dont know how i didnt run out of the theater and outside and start hyperventilating. I am so paranoid lately. I feel like i cant function. I am always scared and worrying if this or that is going to happen and i trick myself into thinking that it is actually going to happen and then i have a panic attack.
Anyone experiencing this or have advice?
SHould i tell my psychiatrist about this?
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That sounds like OCD or some kind of anxiety disorder… I’m no psychiatrist, so I can’t diagnose it, but I’d definitely talk to your doctor about it.
i just feel so paranoid all the time. Not like people are out to get me but like im fricken 17 and im checking over the shower curtain when im in the curtain. that is so pathetic but i legitimately feel someones there.
Like I said, it sounds a lot like OCD, or generalized anxiety disorder, or something like that. Your brain produces an excess of serotonin which gives you this low-grade anxiety, which can spike sometimes, and your mind tries to assign meaning to it by fixating on random things. At least that’s how I understand it. I’ve had bad episodes where the only phrase I can use to describe how I felt was, “A sense of imminent doom,” because that phrase just perfectly frames how I felt. Not for any particular reason – in fact, for no reason I could identify.
When it happens, are you aware that the anxiety is irrational? Like, when you’re in the shower and get that urge to look over the shower curtain, do you realize it’s probably a nonsensical thing to worry about, but the fact that you’re anxious makes you check anyhow?
yes! exactly. i know in my body that its irrational and i know that the movie theater wont fill with water and ill drown but its like my mind takes over and controls everything. its so debilitating!
Definitely talk to your doc about it. If you know it’s irrational, your reality testing is in-tact, which means it’s most likely anxiety and not delusions (it’s hard to tell the difference, especially in the case of OCD), which is a good thing. It’s also relatively easy to treat.
I get anxious that I might be developing schizophrenia sometimes. lol Now that’s bad mojo. Especially since I know how dumb it is. Because then I use words like “mojo” randomly in a conversation and think, “OMG I’M SCHIZOPHRENIC”
D’oh.
i swear i might have a touch of that i already have bipolar which doesnt help
wow im paranoid but thats serious i feel for ya to a degree its hell i sit in my room and im worried wtf my mom thinks about music i listen to so i turn it down every 10 secs to here if shes outside my door i stare at walls sometimes waiting for something to happen im so paranoid at times
i agree wowplayer. Its like you know nothing will happen yet youll still sit there and stare at the walls. like im scared at night and cant sleep because i am afraid of monsters and im fricken 17 for gods sake! i want to tell myself enough is enough.
When it happens, just remind yourself that it’s not your fault – you’re not pathetic because of it. Also, you’re not defined by any disorder you have – you are you. It’s nothing to get worked up over – which is the trick; learning to calm yourself when it happens.
i know. i try to tell myself that its not real and that its all in my head and sometiems i can control it but others i swear its like im a two year old.