How can I stop being paranoid?

Give yourself a designated "worry time." Spend this time sitting down with your paranoid thoughts, evaluating them, and trying to minimize them. If a worry comes up during a different part of the day, just try to mentally move it to your "worry time."

Stopping yourself from being paranoid can be accomplished by separating what you believe to be truths from actual truths.

Paranoia isn't something you can usually stop instantly, it will take time. But you can begin by trying to combat those paranoid thoughts with more positive ones and acting against the paranoia. Also by just trying to distract yourself from the thoughts by doing normal things, such as taking out the rubbish or catching up with your favourite tv show. Another thing I would recommend trying would be meditation, or mindfulness.

I see the experience of paranoid as "#thinking of possible future threatening events that may result in negative consequences for myself", which results in me experiencing of anxiety or fear., sometimes in scalating levels. The origin of this experience is #thinking. Going away from reality into fantasy world by thinking these scenes in our head. #Thinking. By placing your attention into these scenes you think of, we trigger the experience of paranoid. To stop, you may take your attention away from such things, and place your attention back into the now. One effective way is to practice #breathing, mindful breathing. You may explore #mindfulness, #ZenMindfulness to understand deeper how it mind works. Yet, you may stop the feeling of paranoid without understanding how mind works by practicing mindful breathing exercices, taking your attention back into your breathing every time you see your attention going away into one of those scenes. Take your attention back into the now, into the breathing. You may try that and then contact me to discuss how it went for you.

I can slip into paranoid thoughts sometimes and then it can feel like a slippery slope. The challenge is getting out of it. I suppose the first thing is to label them ‘paranoid thoughts’. Just by labelling them creates a distance and makes me question the truth of these thoughts. Then I try and just sit with the feeling a bit, as I feel wrestling with these feelings would be like quick sand and drag me further under. Sometimes if I sit with my feeling for long enough, and I am able to bring some compassion to it, it can make me want to cry, as if it has all bubbles up to the surface and crying is a natural release, a way of just letting it go. If you have been anxious for a period of time, you can feel like a tightly coiled spring. I really can’t recommend a good cry enough. I also am a great believer in getting out of your head and into your body. Go for a swim, a run, a walk and really try and be there in your body when you do that. The feel of the water, the temperature of the air, the smells. If you are in your body, then you are not in your head, which is where paranoia resides. It is amazing when you come out the other side and are able to how your mind has been warping things. When your in the thick of it, it is easy to believe that it is permanent and will never end. This is not true of course. Mostly just be kind to yourself. xxx

Understand your emotions and labeling them helps. Next, recognize your own fears and face them head on. It may help to ask yourself "What's the worst that can happen?"

Well,sometimes being natural and letting the moment pass by for what it really is helps you to see life as being more natural and bearable, while at the same time preserving your sanity and not testing the patience of others. If you're able to realize that your suspicious outlook on life is unhealthy and you're willing to do something about it, then you're already making headway. For starters try keep it busy, dare to confide in someone close to you and try figuring out of your paranoid feelings are really a resulted of some deep-rooted anxiety through some.counselling or therapy..

Take deep breaths and tell yourself that everything will be okay. You need not worry. Always expect the worst case scenarios in things like these. At least, you've prepared yourself for the worst.

Try seeing a therapist and try to change your thought process so you're less suspicious of people.

Stop being paranoid by thinking about the positives not the negatives. When u think for example u might have something to be paranoid about, for example you might be worried that your bum is to small and that your worried as to what people might think. Turn that into a positive! I mean for example plane seats will never be an issue! Stay calm and believe in yourself x