I've started arguments due to paranoia then they were truly talking about me . I sometimes find it difficult to leave a room with a group of people in it just in case. It's a very disruptive symptom of anxiety for me. I've learnt to let it go occasionally through cbt , i now think to myself what's he worse thing they could say and would it be my problem or theirs, I can't control what others think and say.However I still have bad days where I want to be aware of everything

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the main times I got paranoid while I was going through depression and anxiety was when I went back to work after being on the sick. I could feel the tension each time I walked into the staff room. I followed 2 members of staff out without them realising and I heard them calling me so I knew I was right. the next time was very recently the same thing happened again and even the senior in charge was talking about me and it was only due to the fact that the night senior who was to take over was using eye contact to say shush shes coming. I found that they didn't like the way I worked. not my fault that I was qualified more than the seniors were. so they would talk down to me and belittle me in front of others. all because they could see the scars on my arms were I had been cutting myself. im currently on the sick thanks to those who are so narrow minded. I feel as though I cant work in care again

I used to get it really bad. I ascribe it to my nearly non-existent self esteem, and extremely negative self image. This, in turn, I believed to be, and still do, due to my really, really, very bad social anxiety disorder. The depression, surely, is a complicating factor, but I don't think was the main cause. BUT, when I was hypomanic (and, thus, of course, not depressed), the paranoia did lessen. However, another BUT, when I was properly manic, the paranoia was back. So, who knows? Don't listen to me.

I can tell you, though, that after loads and loads of therapy and drugs, it's much, much better now. The treatment dealt with both the bipolar business, and the social anxiety at the same time, so not even analyzing that could give me a clear answer.

I hate it when I start getting paranoid, I starts off small but spirals out of control that I either cut myself or hide away. It takes me a while to get out of it.