does anyone else experience paranoia when they're having anxiety? i wasn't sure if it goes hand in hand or if it's separate. when i have anxiety i feel on edge and my stomach feels weird. i tend to walk fast and sometimes shake. i find myself scared and like i said paranoid. let me know what you think. thanks.

You are not alone, I to get that way as well. It don't happen alot to me but i do get paranoid. I mostly keep thinking im loseing my mind and will end up unable to care for my self or my girlfriend. I also fear i'll lose her and get locked in a mental place. But thats just what i get Paranoid about. Dont know if it is the same thing you do but it is what i do.

This post has been edited by kenrolf: Jan 22 2007, 02:49 AM

im paranoid that it will mess me up real bad when im home alone with my kids

Absolutely, when I'm taking tests in a room with a bunch of students, my paranoia that I am disturbing the students around me causes me to go into anxiety attacks, which makes me more paranoid, etc.

You are definitely not alone. When my anxiety starts up, my paranoia kicks in pretty quick. My paranoia feeds of what triggered my anxiety. I start imagining worse cause scenarios of what can happen and that gets my anxiety going even more. If I do not get my anxiety under control my hands can shake, fast heart beat, and chest pains.

Wow, you have kids? Are you married? I noticed that you comment a lot which is nice. I'm interested in your relationship with your kids because I often wonder if i should have kids someday or not due to my depression/anxiety. Sometimes I think if i had kids then i'd be happier and wouldn't feel so alone but at the sametime i'm afraid i'd be a bad mother. There's nothing worse then being a bad parent and i wouldn't want to risk that..so how do you think you would mess up?

I know what you mean. I feel physical symptoms as well as mental. I'm always paranoid people are looking at me. It's weird because they're not but when i'm in that state i feel like everyone is. I feel like everyone will notice what is happening to me. I tend to have floating anxiety so sometimes it comes out of nowhere for no reason at all. I feel like this is the worst anxiety because i have no idea why i have it. Do you have didn't forms of anxiety?

I've never had an anxiety attack, atleast I'm not sure if i have, what is it like?

I see where you're coming from. I can experience it in that way as well. Sometimes I'm afraid i'll never get better and that I am literally going insane..this paranoia only makes things worse. When i'm not paranoid I know that i'm normal and everything is okay.. but yeah i feel the same sometimes.

I have not been told what kinds of anxiety I have. The therapist is treating me for anxiety in general. But I have social anxiety real bad. I was becoming a hermit. The only way I could function at a party was to get very drunk to reduce my anxiety. I can go on alot about this for awhile. If something trigers my anxiety( like a problem with friend or boss) I can high anxiety for days without pause. I had a problem with a friend and I got an anxiety attack just thinking about, it gave me a racing heart, tight chest and chest pains and I could not think straight. My anxiety got really bad this this year because of other reasons, that I started to self harm to calm my self down. It was the only thing that worked.


As you said "when i'm in that state" ,I refered to this as crossing over. I tried to expain it to my therapist but it is hard to explain. When my paranioa and anxiety takes overs, I am like in my own little reality and all my fears seems real. I think everyone is talking behind my back and my thinking gets really warped. It is a very strange and hard to explain. If I can not get out of this state I usually end up doing something I will regret later.


Now, I am on Zolft 100mg a day and clonazepam 0.5 mg twice a day and in therapy. The meds keep me sedated enough that my anxiety is not that bad right now. The focus now is to stop the self harm.

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i take Z for my anxiety. i love it. good luck to u

I am like that sometimes, when I am around people. I get too nervous, that I end up with stomach ache.

I have been on it for 4 months about. It is really helping a lot. The 4 weeks of side effects was worth it. My anxiety is way down and I can go to social events without turning into a nervous basket case.

I know what you mean about becoming a hermit. I turned down A LOT of social events and opportunities due to the anxiety. I seem to notice negative instances over positive so i use that as an excuse in my head. Also i think i perceive somethings as negative that aren't. I can't tell if i'm right or wrong when it comes to judging people/situations.

Whenever i went to parties i got drunk to fit in too. it usually ended pretty badly. i stay away from alcohol now.

sometimes, well a lot of the time i think people talk about me. like if i see people talking and laughing close to me i assume it's about me. i don't like when people compliment me and i don't like being in the center of attention. i usually feel suspicious of peoples motives etc. i actually want to bring this up to my counselor at my next meet because i never realized how bad it was.

sometimes i feel like i have so much wrong with me..

I am exactly the same. My paranioa about thinking that people were talking about me behind my back and making fun of me got so intense, that it led me to an emotional break down. I do not trust people in general because I feel they will take advantage of you sooner or later. People are only nice to me because they want something from me. Talking with my therapist about it has helped me a lot The meds have helped too. My therapist is using CBT with me. I have made very good progress with my anxiety. I feel at times there is a lot wrong with me or the I am a complete srcew up, this is when I get depressed. But I muttle on anyways.

Hi nervous bride! Hi all! Oh yes, at times my anxiety can turn to paranoid ways of thinking, feeling, behaving. Sometimes it is like an out of reality experience similar but worse than what I consider a regualr panic attack and lasts longer.

Rational self-talk and changing enviornments, activities... can calm it but with racing thoughts it is hard for me to catch sometimes. For me one silly anxious thought (if I don't let it flow through) will turn into obsessive thoughts or visuals with fear or panic and then I can become paranoid. While being alone with my child have felt afraid I might actually harm him. So Ajumbledmess I can relate. What a feeling. Things that mean the most to us get the most reactions. I think that with OCD symptoms, what you least want or would never do, the mind takes that and messes with us.

The thing that helps me is that I know it will end. But you know what, I remember times really believing that danger