Paranoia

[Senhor Perfect]

Happy belated birthday : May the force be with you

And also with you

 

[Grams and Ounces]

If you feel like you have serious issues with paranoia that are affecting your daily life, then you need to research what it is, and get to know yourself. I know it sounds stupid but if you know everything about paranoia, and everything about how you think about things and how your brain operates, it becomes easier to deal with. Paranoia is like anger, it's something we all deal with at times, but some people more than others. If it's seriously affecting you then you need to deal with it, because it can be detrimental to your mental health. Paranoia is heavily linked with anxiety, and anxiety issues can lead to serious mental health issues. Anxiety is something you should be speaking to a doctor about if you think you have it in excessive amounts - again, we all deal with anxiety - and sometimes you'll need therapy and medication to deal with it.

See the signs, know yourself, know the problem, and deal with it. The literal way to deal with paranoia is knowing yourself to the point where you can simply say "this isn't happening, I'm being paranoid again".

Can not speak to your doctor if you think they will section you under the mental health act, and that did happen to my best friend. I would rather just suffer on through the bad spells, 80% of the time i am ok.

 

[Crayo]

Can not speak to your doctor if you think they will section you under the mental health act, and that did happen to my best friend. I would rather just suffer on through the bad spells, 80% of the time i am ok.

I'm pretty smart up in this area, and you will not get you sectioned under the mental health act for seeking help with these issues. If people were sectioned because of paranoia alone, then everyone would be sectioned. My sister was sectioned 6 months ago (currently in rest bite) and I know for a fact doctors, social workers, community psychiatric nurses, psychiatrists, and other professionals there to help you try their best to keep you OUT of mental institutions. Normally you're sectioned when you start becoming a danger to yourself or others, or that a functioning normal life is simply impossible and you're struggling to deal with it.

 

[Grams and Ounces]

I'm pretty smart up in this area, and you will not get you sectioned under the mental health act for seeking help with these issues. If people were sectioned because of paranoia alone, then everyone would be sectioned. My sister was sectioned 6 months ago (currently in rest bite) and I know for a fact doctors, social workers, community psychiatric nurses, psychiatrists, and other professionals there to help you try their best to keep you OUT of mental institutions. Normally you're sectioned when you start becoming a danger to yourself or others, or that a functioning normal life is simply impossible and you're struggling to deal with it.

Ok maybe a bit of an exaggeration,but they got sectioned for getting a bit more crazier later on, they were at that point a danger, but it was a very short escalation and thin line from when they first saw the pros, but it has always put me off, plus the last time i saw a gp they refused me sleeping piils, as according to their records i had shown an addictive trait/personality??

 

[Grams and Ounces]

I'm pretty smart up in this area, and you will not get you sectioned under the mental health act for seeking help with these issues. If people were sectioned because of paranoia alone, then everyone would be sectioned. My sister was sectioned 6 months ago (currently in rest bite) and I know for a fact doctors, social workers, community psychiatric nurses, psychiatrists, and other professionals there to help you try their best to keep you OUT of mental institutions. Normally you're sectioned when you start becoming a danger to yourself or others, or that a functioning normal life is simply impossible and you're struggling to deal with it.

Ok maybe a bit of an exaggeration,but they got sectioned for getting a bit more crazier later on, they were at that point a danger, but it was a very short escalation and thin line from when they first saw the pros, but it has always put me off, plus the last time i saw a gp they refused me sleeping piils, as according to their records i had shown an addictive trait/personality??

My last part was rushed and i can explain better when i am not gassed.

A serious question though, when was/is your experience from? My brief introduction to the world of mental health was before the NHS cutbacks (2006/2007) and it seemed all the doctors presumed was you wanted to be signed of sick and the basically did it if you showed any symptoms.

 

[Crayo]

My last part was rushed and i can explain better when i am not gassed.

A serious question though, when was/is your experience from? My brief introduction to the world of mental health was before the NHS cutbacks (2006/2007) and it seemed all the doctors presumed was you wanted to be signed of sick and the basically did it if you showed any symptoms.

Wow, I completely misread this. I thought you were asking about what my experience was with mental health, and not WHEN. I wrote up this big piece in the spoiler with my personal experiences and I cba to remove it now after putting it out there (might help some others). As for WHEN I dealt with it, from 2008 onwards to now. A collection of 6 years now. I've dealt with it from a younger age but not from an onlooker because I was too young to understand what was happening.

Spoiler

My experience comes from many factors. A lot are to personal to share on the internet, but I'm okay discussing my sister. She suffers with Asperger Syndrome, Psychosis (specifically schizophrenia), and ADD. I've experienced pretty much every situation imaginable with her. It's gone from days where she was legitimately shaking in anger towards my Mum for no reason to the point where I had to physically restrain her and pick up the phone and call the cops (I didn't in the end), to where she is so scared and vulnerable that the only way she would go to my room is crawl on the floor because she thought there was a sniper outside waiting for her. Her paranoia was to the point where she thought the government had chipped her and that her neighbours can hear and see everything she was doing. She has been sectioned four times and three of them were for different reasons. They have varied from a serious threat of physical aggression being lashed out at my Mum, to her not being able to live alone because she lives in absolute fear, to her attempting to take her life because of the mental health factors she was going through.

It has calmed down more recently due to her medication, but things are far from right. However, the positive that comes from this is that we are so well equipped to deal with mental health issues now and see the signs. What I have typed makes it seem so much worse than it is, but never did we once think "Jesus, we're going through a crisis right now", it's more "Damn, I really want to help her". She has dealt with some shitty doctors and helpers over the year, but none of them were doing their best to section her. Ironically, it was the complete opposite. We wanted her to be sectioned BECAUSE of the threat we knew she was going to cause Mum or herself, but they wouldn't until a situation actually occurred. It was to the point where she was so scared she was ASKING to go back to the mental hospital because that was where she felt safe, but they wouldn't put her there.

 

[Solid Snake]

Not paranoia but do get really bad anxiety attacks sometimes.

As do I :downer:

 

[Butters!]

I also have paranoia along with depression.

Mine is due to a horrible past, bullying, awful friends, family issues, etc. I always thought someone was out to hurt me due to what past people had done towards me, such as when i meet new people I tend to think about things that i should or should not say to them because i felt like they would hold it agasint me like a dagger. but i eventually got over that. The best way I overcome things like this is to just do something creatively on Photoshop, video games. or watch a movie that really makes me smile. (Mostly wrestlemaina DVD's, Don't judge. haha)

 

[Shadie T]

I also have paranoia along with depression.

Mine is due to a horrible past, bullying, awful friends, family issues, etc. I always thought someone was out to hurt me due to what past people had done towards me, such as when i meet new people I tend to think about things that i should or should not say to them because i felt like they would hold it agasint me like a dagger. but i eventually got over that. The best way I overcome things like this is to just do something creatively on Photoshop, video games. or watch a movie that really makes me smile. (Mostly wrestlemaina DVD's, Don't judge. haha)

I can relate to this so much, I have dealt with a lot of shit in the past 3 years and depression and paranoia were the worst.

 

[DK JAMES]

Nah, doesn't affect me while I'm sober. Stoned or something I get paranoid as all hell lmao, but normally it doesn't really bother me.

 

[Jonathan]

Not really, if something is gonna happen it's gonna happen regardless of whether or not i scare myself shitless about it, so why worry.

 

[Farooq]

I don't think so. Lol, the only time I ever got paranoid was when I was a kid and my great grandmother didn't get up at a certain time lol, but then I realized it was Saturday, so that's why she wasn't awake, not because she was dead. Otherwise, can't think of a time where I had it.

 

[Robbie Coletrain]

I once went to the doctors about having panic attacks and what I thought was social anxiety, to my relief it turned out I'm just a pussy.