Am I paranoid? ?

Question

Since I was about 7 or 8, I keep thinking that people can read my thoughts... I try not to look in the mirror when I don't have any clothes on, because I think that somebody has a magic mirror, and they can see stuff through all of the mirrors in the world... I always think that someone's going to break into my house when I'm home alone, <--[I blame that partly on talking about that sort of stuff in elementary school] but only when I'm home alone... I don't really trust anybody... Definitely not people at school... [I do have a few friends... no one really hates me... I try to be nice to everybody] I tend to hold long grudges...

Answer 1

i am sort of like that i avoid saying inappropriate stuff in my head cause i feel it isn&#039;t right to think about it around my family  

Answer 2

Paranoia is generally an irrational fear of something like people reading your mind, a symptom of paranoid schizophrenia. Someone breaking into your house is not an irrational fear, but a rational one, so that is not paranoid. The mirror thing is paranoid. With schizophrenic paranoia there is thought stealing is one, people stealing your thoughts. Another is you have the magical ability to impose your thoughts on others minds and can&#039;t stop yourself from doing it. Or that everyone around you has ESP when they don&#039;t.

Answer 3

Woa, i do all of that to. But to be serios its just an active imagination. Unless it really interferes with stuff its probably just you entertaining youreself.

Some wonderful examples i have heard (and had) are the monster in the sewers that cant get you if you close the bathroom door, the monster in the vents that only knows youre there if the fan goes on, and other stuff like that.

Another thing, and this isnt really a big deal, is that you might be trying to rationalize some stuff that you just do. in wich case it sounds like you have mild OCD. it really isnt anything big unless it gets worse, lots of people have it and dont even realize it, they just rationalize their habbits and rituals, i did the same thing.

In any case i wouldn&#039;t freak, like i said it just sounds like minor stuff. I&#039;ll bet lots of people do it but are just too embaraced to talk about it.

Answer 4

Well that&#039;s what we call an over active imagination, it is a blessing and a curse.  But just try and do the things that make you uncomfortable, and face your fears before they get harder to face.  I wouldn&#039;t say your paranoid though, just a little imaginative  

Answer 5

No, that&#039;s normal, we all go throught that, we watch too much T.V.