When Anxiety Looks Like Paranoia | WHY DO I FEEL SO PARANOID | Is Paranoia Anxiety

Описание: If you have severe anxiety, you may notice you feel paranoid and ask why do I feel so paranoid? You might even feel like you are going crazy and losing control. Is paranoia anxiety and are they the same thing? In this video I discuss when anxiety looks like paranoia. If you ever wondered why do I feel paranoid sometimes and why do I feel paranoid all of a sudden then this video is for you. I discuss what anxiety is and why it might look like paranoia sometimes. Mental health symptoms can sometimes be difficult to notice because they come on slowly and just become a part of our lives. Also, mental health symptoms may seem to be serving a purpose and benefitting us, and we miss how they might be problematic in our lives. Anxiety will often look like paranoia and you feel paranoid because the anxiety is meant to make you feel unsafe in the moment so that you can keep yourself safe. If you think of the fight/flight/freeze system that is the same as anxiety, then you can start to understand why anxiety might feel like paranoia. You might feel paranoid out of nowhere and then ask yourself “why do I feel paranoid?”, “Why do I feel paranoid when I am alone?”, and “Why do I feel paranoid all the time?” When you are experiencing high levels of anxiety, your body and mind are on high alert. Your senses are heightened and you start to look for the danger that is out there. You may see or hear things that aren’t actually there because of your heightened senses and tendency to think there is a danger due to your anxiety being activated. You know that the situation is not as you are perceiving it, and this makes you feel more paranoid and anxious. With the anxiety heightened and looking for danger, you experience paranoia that is part of the anxiety. This is different from paranoia that is a psychosis or part of a psychotic disorder such as Schizophrenia. If you have paranoia and feel paranoid, this doesn’t mean you are psychotic or schizophrenic. You would need to talk to a mental health provider to actually look at the cause, but it is possible for your anxiety to make you feel paranoid.

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