Paranoia More Common Than Once Thought

By: Brent Usry

What an interesting story, Dr Live in Ivory Towers is not paranoid, What a friggin surprise. Well Dr. Just because you are not Paranoid Doesn't Mean; They Are Not Out To Get You, It Just Means You Are Avoiding the Obvious Warning Signs Going On around You. When they come to get you. You won't be ready Because you were too busy analizing and  creating a problem out of someone elses higher awareness of reality.

You see folks there are those people who think all is well. They think this because they have money and they ignore problems, poverty and war and they choose to let governments do what ever they want.

As Long as they live in a nice house, who cares about the rest of the world, it is better to live with their head in the sand and act like others who are looking at the problems, have a problem then it is for them to stand up and do anything.

This guy is using his lack of doing anything to promote his put your head in the sand website.

Just Because You're Paranoid, Doesn't Mean They're Not Out To Get You... Its Just A State Of Extra Awareness!©

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Paranoia more common than thought

One in three people in the UK regularly suffers paranoid or suspicious fears, clinical psychologists have found.

A team at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London interviewed 1,200 people about whether they had thoughts about others doing them harm.

They found levels of paranoia were much higher than previously suspected - and almost as high as those for depression and anxiety.

The researchers say paranoia can cause real distress.

The study found that:

Over 40% of people regularly worry that negative comments are being made about them

27% think that people deliberately try to irritate them

20% worry about being observed or followed

10% think that someone has it in for them

5% worry that there is a conspiracy to harm them

"TYPE=PICT;ALT=" PARANOID THOUGHTS

Greg, 19, student: "If I'm with a friend and someone rings them on their mobile and they tell the caller they're with me, well if the caller then says something I can't hear and the friend I'm with laughs, I always think that the person on the other end of the phone said something horrible about me."

"Understandably there are certain instances when it is important to practice caution, such as taking money from a cash machine without alerting too much attention and walking down a poorly-lit street at night.

"Following last year's London bombings, it is natural that underground train travellers are more vigilant than before.

"However, our research demonstrates that there can be a tendency to exaggerate our fears."

"Our study shows just how many of us are worrying - probably unnecessarily - about something that might not happen instead of getting on with the more enjoyable and productive parts of our lives.

"We also found in our study that these suspicious thoughts can cause real distress."

Less trust

Dr Freeman said in the past paranoid thinking had been assumed to occur only in people with severe mental illness, partly because of a reticence in the general population about talking about paranoid thoughts.

"TYPE=PICT;ALT=" WAYS TO OVERCOME PARANOIA

Remember paranoid thoughts are common

Share thoughts with trusted others

Imagine another person's perspective

Do not treat thoughts as facts and think of alternative explanations for events

Try not to ruminate on the thoughts

Do not let the thoughts stop you from doing what you want to do

Remember the positive things about yourself

From Overcoming Paranoid and Suspicious Thoughts, published by published by Constable and Robinson

He said that until recently little was known about how to help people overcome their fears.

But he said there were now effective ways - such as cognitive behaviour therapy and self-help techniques - to tackle the problem.

Dr David Harper, a senior lecturer in clinical psychology at the University of East London, agreed that paranoid thoughts were probably more common than people realized.

He said: "People need to realize that these sorts of thoughts are not that rare, and should not be too frightened by them."

Dr Harper said there was probably something about contemporary Western society which encouraged feelings of paranoia.

"There are surveys to show that people are much less willing to trust others than they once were," he said.

He suggested the media had helped create a climate of suspicion by playing on people's fears.

A new website - paranoidthoughts.com - is being launched to provide information on paranoid thoughts, advice on seeking help, and opportunities for people to share their experiences