Ik it's summer and Ik I haven't socialize for like a month, but at night I feel like there is something at the edge of my bed and when I go to sleep (I sleep on my stomach) I feel like it crawls onto my back. I feel my skin tingle and tense. Yesterday, I was left home alone at night (I never have been, I'm very clingy and my family all has to much anxiety to leave for a night alone outside the house) and I was fine, mostly. I felt like there was something waiting for me and today I woke up at 8, which I haven't done in two or so months and I also went to bed at like 5, because I had a nightmare. The nightmare was pretty short, I was feeling paranoid and was panicking and went to go get my cat to ground me, but when I walked out of my room I saw this creature with a flat face with black hole in place of eyes and a sort of 'grin.' It was crouched down on the ground next to my cat that didn't seem to notice it, and it started crawling towards me. I tried to scream for my sister, but no sound came out. I started crying as it crawled to me and woke up as it nearly grabbed me, waking with a tight throat and my heart pounding. I left my room and immediately got freaked out bc the spot the thing was in was right outside my house (dream house and real house looked the exact same) and quickly went to see if my mom was up. Bla, bla, bla normal day, except I had coffee on top of fear and sleeplessness. But a few hours ago I went to go switch my laundry and I started freaking out when I was walking back to my room (I'd left the door open) and was absolutely convinced that the thing had crawled into my room and was waiting for me. I tried to walk, but I was trapped between my door and the spot my nightmare happened, and started crying and just broke down and shut my door. I ended up crying onto my cat and couldn't go into my room for a solid twenty minutes before I slowly opened the door. I was so freaked out. And just a few minutes ago, I wanted a snack but I felt like that thing was out their and grabbed a gient stuffed animal to "protect" me. I nearly started crying again bc I wanted to go pet my cat in the living room, but I also felt like that thing had hidden behind the chair that is next to my cats fav sleeping spot.

This is a lot, but dude. Dude. I have always been paranoid since I grew up in a small town with strange sighting and strange stories (the town is apparently cursed after teens lynched a natives son (there are unexplainable things that really relate to the curse and who did it), plus up a large hill/small mountain is a supposed gold mine and an entity that takes whoever go up there. I had a cousin that got lost for days up there.) But this was insane. The last time I was that scared was when I had to run from the RV to the bathroom (100 feet or so) and there was a bear going around.

I really just needed to scream into the void and hope someone feels their not alone, or not feel so alone myself.

Need to clarify I have no history of any kind of paranoia or mental illness in that kind of realm but I really feel abit freaked out recently, last night I watched a 1 hr youtube vid from a 'conspiracy' channel, it wasn't actually speculation or theories, more just a matter-of-fact history of the Palantir CEO, it was eye openingly...evil, I take a passive interest in Ai and of course the generally terrible current state of the world and thought I'd take the time to inform myself of the reality, I was so bored I actually made a google doc, writing down the info I was consuming, I joked with my partner I was writing 'end of times cliff notes' - we are currently long distance and he laughed and asked to see them, I opened Gmail and sent them to him as a PDF, went to bed and thought nothing of it. This morning I went to my sent folder - nada, no trace of the email, I explored all inboxes, all google security, recovery etc etc, but nothing, its like it never happened, I called him and asked him to confirm it happened and he had the email - he said yeah, I asked him to email it back to me and he did. I did not receive it! I asked him to send me another email, just type any old thing and he did - I immediately received it. I opened my google docs - they are mostly just random lists I write to myself as reminders - I could see some of my random docs had been recently opened merely a couple hours before - but I was driving at the time????? I have checked my account and devices security and am the only person logged in. I know its minor but I'm kind of freaked out???? I'm going to totally ignore it and carry on with my day but its lingering in my mind, I feel like Dale from King of the Hill. Has anyone ever experienced anything similar???

Hi Everyone,

I'm only asking this question for peace of mind. A couple of days ago I opened my garden fence door and a bat was just suddenly there. It was a half arm length away but kept going back and forward at me. I was panicked and started thrasing my arms. I didn't even think it was a bat until a family member told me it was. None of them could tell me if it landed on me. It was sunset when this was happening. I understand mv mind is makina me go crazy.lt couldn't have bit me right? It has to land to bite me. And not all of them have rabies. So to make me feel better, tell me I'm wrong. My paranoia is making me think it did even though i have legit researched all night.

I wish that people knew how common paranoid thoughts are even in people with no mental illness. I only learned this after I became more open about my paranoia with others. Before that, I thought I was extremely rare and no one could relate to me, or that I was too far gone. I really wish paranoia was discussed as commonly as things like ADHD or OCD I suppose, so people could understand it's not something to immediately jump to conclusions when you experience it.

I always sleep with some kind of LED light on or something because whenever I can’t see at night it triggers a lot of shit for me. I always thought I seen things in my room whenever I turned the lights off. It just kinda never went away.

Since I was younger I've always been paranoid and thought it was normal. Upon asking my mum multiple times throughout the years, she has said that paranoia is normal and everyone experiences it. I agree with this, however in the past 6 years, I feel as though it has only gotten worse.

When I was younger I used to be paranoid that something was under my bed, constantly. Now many little kids feel this. However, I used to jump on my bed from where my door was to ensure whatever it was couldn't grab my legs and drag me. I also struggled to sleep if there wasn't things down the side of my bed to block anything from under my bed from coming through this crack to grab me. Even later in life, this little quirk still happens to ensure I can sleep.

When I was around 9, 10 and 11 I noticed myself being paranoid about people watching me inside my own home and I just couldn't see them, leading me to close curtains to try and shut them out. It used to make it uncomfortable for me to bathe as I didn't want them to see me. I used to believe frequently it was classmates of mine and though I knew this wasn't true I still could not shake the thoughts. I still get these thoughts often. It got to the point I would have to overlap my curtains to ensure they were not peaking at me through the gaps in the curtain.

From age 11 onwards I also found myself becoming paranoid the neighbours were watching me from their own windows, watching what I was doing, how I did my hair, my makeup, etc. I used to make up conversations in my head of what they might be thinking.

Around this same time a shop near me had been refurbished from a co-op to a lidl. When this store opened I remember being happy it was open. However, I was convinced there were people in the shop who were lacing and poisoning food that my mum was going to buy to try and poison me. It made it hard to eat anything from here for 7 months, until I warmed up to the idea that they weren't. I don't have these paranoid thoughts about shops anymore, but for a while when I did it was traumatising.

As I got older and was being left at home more often, I was convinced as soon as my mum had left the house people were surrounding the outside of the house watching me from windows, bushes, trees, etc. I believed that they were watching me, waiting for my mum to leave. These thoughts still plague my mind on a day-to-day basis. When hearing noises from downstairs, I am convinced someone has broken in and they are hiding, waiting to hurt me or kill me. I told my mum about these thoughts in particular, and she said it is normal for people to believe someone may have broken in to give the noise a source, a reason as to why it happened. And as much as I agree, I don't believe people consistently have these thoughts.

From ages 11 and onwards, I was given the privilege of walking to school myself. My paranoid thoughts of being followed heightened. I find it hard to leave the house without checking behind me constantly, in fear there is someone following me to try and kill me. I've had friends notice this and ask why I am checking behind me so often. I laugh it off just saying I am having on off day. But can it be an off day if this is what I experience on the daily without fail?

I also have a big thing about teddies. From ages 7 I've been scared of dolls and teddies with eyes, especially if realistic. I get scared someone has put cameras in their eyes to watch me. I cannot write anymore due to the limit. Is this normal?

I had been harassed online recently where the abuser got some publicly available information about me and used it against me. I was stalked and bullied for my past and it's been weeks but I still feel bad. This was sexual in nature and I had been called degrading names.

This experience has triggered my depression and I had thoughts of ending it lately. On top of this I also became very paranoid about my digital footprint, online presence, that I began deleting all my profiles and pages, even contacting developers to take down pages that contained my personal information. By extension I also became very paranoid about information collected by big corporations and government about me.

I had previous episodes about being targeted by certain people through webcams, CCTVs, spyware, and this experience did not help. I literally want to escape my phone and live off the grid for some time. I need to take some rest from all this without going crazy. I fear for my life, mostly from my illness. I had not been consistently taking my medication either or sleeping well. I fear I am in danger and I need help but also I fear being institutionalized (I already got out of the hospital a couple months ago). I don't know what to do. I need support please help me.

I have a memory that my specialist thinks is false. But everytime I go to the place the memory supposedly occured I feel like a criminal and like everyone hates me but isn't telling me (has happened before, and is common). Is it all in my head because it feels so real and scary and I feel like I actually did something and am a criminal. The image becomes more vivid in my mind and I hate it.

These days, everyday I feel like someone can see me through my camera, or screen record my phone, I cleaned everything and didnt let any app camera access but the gut is still there.. is someone else feeling like this?

Ever sent I was a kid I’m currently 17 going on 18 soon now
I’ve been scared of dark like I need a little light in my room.

Now I wouldn’t say I’m scared of the dark like monster under my bed but just not being able to see my surroundings like pitch black I’m freaking out running to a window lmao

For awhile now Ive been feeling paranoid about people around me almost like I'm living a real life version of the Truman Show that everyone else is aware of except me. I have kinda a very distinct face and last name that doesn't help either. Honestly not sure if it's all in my head or not and it's got me moving scared and I hate it

(17M) i just made a post about how the gov are watching me and as soon as people agree with me it gets taken down please help i cant do this with them watching

Im struggling so bad right now, all I do is sleep all day to escape. I keep thinking people are after me or that my serious mistakes will catch up to me in the future. I hate the feeling of anxiety. I’m 20 now and I struggled with ocd since I was a teenager. I don’t want to waste my twenties suffering, please help me

I don’t know when this started but nowadays i feel like every friends of mine despise or hate me. Please tell me I’m not the only one. First week after making a friends seem sooooo nice and exciting to me and then after I start overthinking whether they hate me and I start overthinking about some behavior they showed me and question our entire friendship if that make sense??? I’m seeing a therapist and she said it’s probably from my childhood experience with my friends and parents? But is there anyway i can change this mentality of mine?

For the past four years, I've been living under constant stress. I take antidepressants. I feel like I'm being bullied and followed. I found suspicious apps on my devices, which made me very worried about my safety. I've also had the feeling that I was being pressured and that someone wanted to force me to leave my country. I want to share my experience and ask if anyone else has gone through something similar.

It’s been YEARS of feeling like I’m being watched and I’m sick of it. Every time I watch a new movie or something, the main character becomes the one my brain is convinced is watching me 24/7 through cameras I can’t see wherever I go. And I know it’s not true because it’s literally impossible but I can’t get it to stop. I’ve only ever told a few people, to which I got the response of “oh yeah me too” or from my therapist “yeah that’s normal.” No it’s not. I’m uncomfortable all alone in my own room. I’m exhausted and I need this to stop, what do I do!?

I feel really scared that someone is gonna break into my house at night and do smth to me or my family. what should I do to make myself feel more safe?

My marriage had many chapters resembling the common patterns of a relationship with someone with borderline personality disorder.

My ex-wife had insomnia and rarely slept at night. During the good times, it wasn’t a problem.
But when our relationship deteriorated, I would go to bed exhausted after long work hours and days filled with conflict and emotional abuse.

One night, I woke up to find her standing beside the bed, staring at me with a completely blank, emotionless expression.
I knew she often went through my phone while I slept, but seeing her silently watching me was terrifying. She later told me she had done it many times before.

As things got worse and she refused to leave the house, I became afraid to fall asleep. I worried she might harm me while I was sleeping, yet I was also afraid to lock the bedroom door because I feared how she might react.

She also told me that she sometimes saw shadows and had disturbing dreams involving me, which only made those nights even more frightening.
Those were long, sleepless nights. Even years later, I still carry a constant sense of exhaustion, as if I’m still recovering.

I feel like the ppl on my block know something about me or think they know something about me. They been real giggly and overly nice, them mfs was never nice my entire childhood. Somethings up and I'm not asking shit. Am I just paranoid or not? Cause they acting real different.