after a long hard time with paranoia and anxiety I've over come it. I still get a little bit of anxiety when reading stuff like this, but with the progress continueing as it is, I won't have that any more as well.
Alot of what was going on with me was self-consciousness. My thoughts 90% of the time pertained to me, or something that was wrong with me - sounds horrible, and I guess it was!
but here is a realization i've come across: paranoia is lost anxiety - anxiety that is trying to find a place to inhabit. You start to feel anxiety - and then you need to attribute it to something. Cameras? People? The government? Your parents? That guy there standing? Something has to be the source of this - maybe your becoming sick! Maybe you're poisoned! Etc... etc...
But the fact is, this anxiety came from a source - and if you don't identify that source immidiately, you will get paranoia.
So here's the cure; if you feel paranoid, first you need to realize you feel paranoid. Go back the past 15 minutes (or even the last hour) and name everything you've encountered that made you stressed, worried, or anxious in the slightest. Immidiately you should see results - you will either identify what is bothering you, or you will simply not feel anxious anymore.
It work for me atleast. Beyond that, it's alot of realizations to prevent paranoia from happening in the first place. Dramatic shifts in the brain have to happen over time, and unfortunately the best cure is preventive "medicine" - yoga, meditation, etc. Being able to come out of paranoia & anxiety is not the same as curing yourself ultimately, the only way to truly get rid of paranoia is to change dramatically. Unfortunately I don't have the knowledge, time, or ability to explain how it is done.
Read "The Brain that Changes Itself" - that was my first step to realizing that the brain is plastic, and good & bad come and go within the "Brain's realty". But the better you understand yourself and how you can build, so to speak, the more and longer the "good" tends to stay.
