Question:
I think their is a difference between Anxiety and Panaroia. I don’t feel like someone is out to harm me, or the Gods are against me. Anxiety is an exageration of everyday life and it’s problems. We imagine the worst will happen, flat tire, car accident, have attack in public and be embarassed. We feel safest at home, then none of these can happen to us, which can cause Agraphobia-which is the fear of public places and leaving home. We must fight these fears everyday and not let them take hold of our lives, and therapy is all about rational thought and getting these negative thoughts out of our heads. Medication also helps to calm us and make us feel more secure. It is an awful illness and can be very hard to cure-but I know of people who have made it. Gailgallo
Response:
Well let me quit rambling. To answer your question: maybe. I wouldn’t call it paranoia, really. It’s more like an imagined future event (hmm… what’s the word I’m looking for here?)
Anita, I think the word you are looking for is FEAR. All of us want to be careful drivers, but concentrating on what could happen is where this energy turns against you. Rather than focus on this, I tend to concentrate on the joys of driving, and the way to drive defensively so that the *big* crash never happens.
Response:
(Steven Nickoloff) writes: Hello there, I was just wondering if paranoia is a syptom of anxiety disorders such as OCD. PAnic disorder…. etc…..
If paranoia is delucion of persecution, then I am the other way around. I trust everyone !! ANd even when they do something wrong against me, I still think of the million possible things that ‘may’ had contribute in making him/her behaved the way they did…Maybe is my fear of confrontations..who knows? Hi, Steven. I wouldn’t be afraid to bet that many people, both with and without anxiety disorders, have premonitions of harm coming their way.
Well, that is GAD, every single day I think the worse and I worry about every little thing! One of my worst thoughts is imagining that *this* night will be the night that I will have a dreadful car crash on my way home from work.- Anita
Well…as you all know, I had that fear with my kids and it did happen 
Now I have added to my worries the feeling that ‘if’ that was one of my so-called ‘unfounded’ worries and it did happen…..then……will my other fears come true too??? Rosita (Sacred of being scared all the time)
Response:
Hello there, I was just wondering if paranoia is a syptom of anxiety disorders such as OCD. PAnic disorder…. etc….. WHen a person has feelings of harm coming on to them but knows trhey are not real and just a product of there imagination is this still paranoia.? Thanx in advance for any input
Hi, Steven. I wouldn’t be afraid to bet that many people, both with and without anxiety disorders, have premonitions of harm coming their way. It can be as simple as waking up, thinking that it is going to be a horrible day. Or it can be a sudden feeling of dread that disaster is right around the next corner. IMO, anxiety disorders don’t create these types of thoughts, but it makes them seem worse. One of my worst thoughts is imagining that *this* night will be the night that I will have a dreadful car crash on my way home from work. It never happens, of course — at least I hope it doesn’t — but I still get pictures in my mind of some of the most dreadful circumstances. (I won’t go into this, lest I give people nightmares). Since I have to drive home (and actually love driving) I put the thoughts out of my head. Still I wonder why I do these types of things to torture myself. Maybe others do the same. I don’t know; I’ve never asked. Well let me quit rambling. To answer your question: maybe. I wouldn’t call it paranoia, really. It’s more like an imagined future event (hmm… what’s the word I’m looking for here?) Best wishes, Anita
Response:
Hello there, I was just wondering if paranoia is a syptom of anxiety disorders such as OCD. PAnic disorder…. etc….. WHen a person has feelings of harm coming on to them but knows trhey are not real and just a product of there imagination is this still paranoia.? Thanx in advance for any input
Hi, I can’t speak for anyone else, but I have tremendous paranoia all the time. If there is a worst case scenario out there, I am up at 3 am fretting about it. In fact, last night I woke up at 4 am after I heard a noise that I couldn’t identify. I worried that someone had broken into the house, and since our bedroom door was locked, that the serial-killer-burglar-rapist-boogie-man was on his way up to the kids bedrooms upstairs. That one kept me up for a good 1/2 hour. I am always paranoid about stuff like that. We live in a neighboorhood that has never had any kind of problems whatsoever with crime. But, I am always locking doors and windows in the house. Drives my family nuts. Mom calls me paranoid once a day. I used to live in an unsafe neighboorhood with my roomate, so I guess old habits die hard. I can’t sleep unless I know that the house has been throughly checked, locked up, and everyone is home that is going to be home that night. I am paranoid about all that sort of stuff. I can’t say that it is a symptom of my GAD, because I have been this way all my life. I was a nervous kid, and now I am a GAD adult! What fun! But, the drugs do help. LAter! JLS — "I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with the best" Oscar Wilde http://www.winternet.com/~zodiac
Response:
Hello there, I was just wondering if paranoia is a syptom of anxiety disorders such as OCD. PAnic disorder…. etc….. WHen a person has feelings of harm coming on to them but knows trhey are not real and just a product of there imagination is this still paranoia.? Thanx in advance for any input
In my brief education in psychology – and in my opinion, *feeling* like harm is going to befall you is anxiety. I’ve felt that way often during panic attacks – because physiologically my body has gone into "fight or flight". I think the fine line between delusional paranoia and feeling afraid is that if you *think* something horrible is going to happen to you and everything shows this is not the case – then you are delusional and paranoid. I still have anxiety/panic on public buses. I *feel* like I’m trapped and something horrible will happen to me – although in my mind I am completely aware that people take city buses everyday in this town and terrorists don’t kill you and the bus doesn’t crash, etc. If I *thought* that was going to happen – then I’d be paranoid. My anxiety/panic is a big product of ptsd for me – so I know with that (post traumatic stress disorder) it’s common to feel in danger. But I’d say it’s a safe bet just plain ole anxiety causes someone to *feel* in danger. Julia — "Beware the bad cat bearing a grudge."
Response:
Hello there, I was just wondering if paranoia is a syptom of anxiety disorders such as OCD. PAnic disorder…. etc….. WHen a person has feelings of harm coming on to them but knows trhey are not real and just a product of there imagination is this still paranoia.? Thanx in advance for any input
This may not apply to you, but i know that i feel the only way to rationalise a panic attack is to link it to things such as going to certain places, public speaking and so on whatever was around or wherever you were when you had the first panic attack. So really you are not paranoid of something real its just your brains way of surviving by making something not real, real. So as crazy as it sounds it is perfectly normal, what you have to do is try and find the real cause and then disengage the emmotion and other things that surround it and cause those symptoms of paranoia.
Response:
Hello there, I was just wondering if paranoia is a syptom of anxiety disorders such as OCD. PAnic disorder…. etc….. WHen a person has feelings of harm coming on to them but knows trhey are not real and just a product of there imagination is this still paranoia.? Thanx in advance for any input
Response:
Stenen: I don’t know if you would call it paranoia,but when I have to get out , go somewhere, do something….ETC. (and i know of it in advance.it make’s it really bad). Then I have ‘" ‘what I call" ( EXTREME ANTICIPATION!!!) and it is where I dread the event because I have had a acute PA. attack there before,,,, and that covers a lot of places, for over 8 years now I have had PA and AGOR. Knowing that you have broke down there before seems to give it more domination over you. — TALTOS – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hello there, I was just wondering if paranoia is a syptom of anxiety disorders such as OCD. PAnic disorder…. etc….. WHen a person has feelings of harm coming on to them but knows trhey are not real and just a product of there imagination is this still paranoia.? Thanx in advance for any input
If you like this post and would like to receive updates from this blog, please subscribe our feed.