I feel so paranoid , i was just sitting in my room fine and all of sudden i hear sirens and it doesnt stop for 10 mins. And it turned to my thoughts an paranoia saying “they are looking for you”
Yup This is me as well.. You're not alone
I had to screenshot the message you left on your bio. It was what I needed to hear. And I've had this worry a few times in the past. It was really scary and intense. You know what helped me handle that fear? I would think: ok, if the police doesn't come in 15 days, then it's unlikely they're after me. But maybe it'll be 6 months, so after 6 months I'll put this worry to rest. It sounds like a compulsion and it might as well be one, but I'd wait 15 days and then the fear would subside slowly. And I was never worried about the police being after me for whatever I did 6 months ago, so I never actually tracked this much time lol but this helped me calm down over something I had no control over, such as the police coming after me or not.
What I was basically doing is sitting with the thought, but by putting a time limit for my worry, it helped me not to engage with it. I would think: there's nothing I can do but wait and see.
@Lavander Im glad my bio helped you out but please don’t screenshot because that just made me more paranoid. Screenshoting things without my permission gives like ptsd of mine from personal issues. I know you are just a fellow internet stranger and maybe wont delete it but all j can say is please.
@Sumerillast Dw. Didn't mean to trigger you further, no bad intentions from my part. I'll delete it.
@Lavander I appreciate that alot fellow human :)
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Your brains on lock this is a false alarm going off in your brain your perceiving a false threat Your brain is trying to protect you. That’s why the anxiety feels so real but it’s a false sense of danger. Intrusive thoughts can’t hurt you and you’re in no physical danger and no one else is either. It’s a false alarm. Your brain is on lock good news you can get it off lock you have to learn how to put all this power you put into the ruminations and anxiety into other productive activities then you can accomplish amazing things.
I have pocd and for a while, evertime someone knocked at the door I was convinced it was the fbi coming to get me haha. Now I find it ridiculous. I don't pay any attention to it
I’m really struggling right now. My mind is racing and I’m panicking about the content that I watched in the past because I don’t have a way to ‘prove’ that it was safe and consensual. I stupidly caved in and googled “what happens if an accidentally saw illegal porn” and I ended up making my anxiety so much worse. What if the images I saw in the past had underage people in them? Am I going to jail? Will my ip address be tracked? My brain is making all sorts of scenarios up and they feel so real. At this point I don’t know if I’m a bad person or not, I just feel like something terrible is about to happen. Although I know I’d never intentionally look for that kind of stuff there’s still a chance that I could have seen things without realising, and I actually don’t know what to do. I’m in total panic mode
Recently ive been getting very scared to even be angry bc of the horrible thoughts I have and it feels even more real when I'm angry or even annoyed. Rn I was not even super annoyed at my neice but I felt a twinge of annoyance since she went up to my face and was yelling at me while I was resting on the bed and I got this image of doing something bad to her and I felt my hand twitch very little. I got nervous and felt relieved when her dad told her to stop screaming for no reason. I've been hyperfocusing on my bodily reactions (mainly my hands or how I'm feeling like did I just enjoy that? Was I considering???) And I've noticed the small twitches whenever I'm mad or annoyed and it's scaring me so bad! Like do I want to act out? Am I holding back??? I used to not even twitch at all when mad and I felt 100% sure I'll never act out but now it feels like I don't know bc what do these twitches mean?, I do know I don't want to ever act out but it's so scary. Recently whenever I feel angry once the argument is over I cry really bad after I'm alone and I pray so i never want or act out. And when the annoyance passes I also feel so guilty and want to stay away. Im scared these are real urges and i research for many many hours to make sure they arent urges or impulses and i also tend to ask chatgpt or here if the anxiety gets so bad 😕
Paranoia… I need to know because I’m feeling very alone in this. I’ve never met someone with the level of paranoia that I have. I can logically explain things to myself and somehow my paranoia convinces me of another story. I’m constantly thinking exaggerated thoughts that there are so many scary possibilities. Am I alone in this or what? If so any suggestions on how to calm these thoughts
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