THE STATE OF PARANOIA

Paranoia is a state of anxiety where individuals often suspect certain acts being taken against them. They often remain in a worry state where they constantly feel threatened or feel that people are against them and remain defensive at all times. Paranoia is born out of a series of traumatic events, prolonged stress or most often drug abuse. Similar to psychosis, this disorder of the mind also impairs the power of the individual to control emotional mood swings and adequately determine what is imagined and what is not.

Paranoia, a mental state of mind, is a chronic condition in which society has deemed the norm. However, a paranoid mind frame is not the norm and we need to acknowledge that an accusatory and overly anxious mindset where one constantly feels threatened or cheated is beyond abnormal. It’s a distrust based on unrealistic standards and predicted assumptions leading to a perpetual implication that one is continuously being persecuted or threatened. The anxiety is often based on delusions or exaggerated suspicions which is a clear indication of paranoidism severity. It’s sufferers continuously fabricate obscene thoughts of being constantly watched or talked about and often are fearful of being controlled.

Here are some signs you may be in a mental state of Paranoia. 

• Uncompromising attitude

• No definitive evidence supporting suspicions 

• Being constantly defensive

• Easily offended

• Argumentative

• Has difficulty trusting others

• Unforgiving to others

• Reserving hidden meanings to everything

• Experiences bouts of heavy anxiety 

• No one can corroborate the suspicious thoughts

Here are some causes of Paranoia

• Stress: Stress is one of the leading causes of paranoia. Accumulated stress can cause an individual to develop suspicious thoughts that build up tension and create blockages in the clear thinking pathways of the mind. These individuals have constant misunderstandings with others and engage in conflict unnecessarily and maybe even quite often.
  
  
• Substance Abuse: Abuse of alcohol and drugs can lead to short- and long-term paranoia. These drugs contain chemicals that make individuals anxious. Although, in most cases, the feeling of paranoia goes away once the chemicals leave your system, drug abuse can cause lasting paranoia when there is an intense prolonged consumption.
  
  
• Limited Sleep: Continuously sleeping for a limited number of hours can affect the thought process of individuals. Sleeplessness may result from an increased level of anxiousness regarding any aspect of their life.
  
  
• Memory Loss: Loss of memory makes an individual more suspicious of others as they fail to recall significant details of past events. The inability to remember results in their assumption that the other person is not being truthful and creates a trust barrier. They lose trust and are convinced that others have bad intentions towards them.

It’s important to work towards healing past trauma that resulted in wounding on an energetic level. Much like the impact made from a bodily injury, your traumatic experiences make a hard impact as well. This impact is unseen and is at the energetic level of the body, and like any wound left unhealed, it will fester. This will result in physical and mental illnesses such as paranoia, anxiety, depression, fibroids, menorrhagia etc. It is impossible to heal these scars from the outside in, hence the reason why medications doctors prescribe for said disorders cures only the symptoms of the condition and not the condition itself. 

Practice sobriety 

Sleep well

Exercise regularly

Eat a healthy and balanced diet

Practice meditation 

Practice journaling 

Practice somatic therapeutic healing ( there are many different forms of the spiritually gifted in which one is clairsentience, someone who heals by sense, by touch) 

To treat oneself is to heal oneself and you do this by treating the condition from the inside out not vice versa. Inasmuch as a simple lifestyle change you can begin to transform what society has deemed untransformable.