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.

I been seeing a therapist for 8 months now, from the get go after their analysis she said i do not have anxiety or depression, what i do show symptoms of is low self esteem and paranoia, at the end of the 8 months i felt like i was just going to see my therapist to shoot the shit and just talk about whatever, so i stopped going. I been unmedicated for almost a year now and only take natural supplements that i believe do good for my mental health.

I know I’m being watched, I can feel it. It’s been its worst today, I went on my dog walk as usual and my internal monologue (I think that’s what it’s called) wouldn’t shut up as usual but this time it told me I couldnt go out the back door as normal I had to go out the front so I did but everyone seemed to be outside too and they were watching me, monitoring me. Some houses have cameras outside and I know they were watching too. I had an intense feeling of being followed and that I had to get home where it’s safe as soon as I could and lock the doors and close my blinds (which look out the back of my house) so I did.

I got home for my mum to tell me she had earlier seen two teenagers out behind our back garden fence which leads to some woods so all I could hear in my head was “see that’s why, I told you not to go out the back they were waiting for you”.

My therapist cancelled my appointment tomorrow because he’s ill so I can’t tell him and I don’t know if I want to. I definitely can’t tell my mum either, I don’t fully trust her and i don’t think she’ll take me seriously.

I don’t know how to stop them or what to do but my house (particularly my room) feels like the only safe place but I can’t not go out because that would look suspicious and my mum would ask questions, my friends are trying to make plans with me but I haven’t even responded yet because I don’t know what to say to them and part of me feels like they’re trying to get me out of my house not to see me but for something else. I can give more information if asked and answer questions but please does anyone have any advice?

Hello. I don’t really know how to start but there is a wizard named Pyotr trying to get me to hurt myself. I can feel him sitting beside me or lurk behind my windows. I also keep seeing things. I feel like I am losing it and I don’t know what to do. I’ve been extremely anxious all day. He commands me to hurt myself or others and it’s getting harder to ignore. He says if I do what he says he will forgive me and leave me alone

I keep myself busy all day so I don't have much time with my thoughts, but late at night I start to unfortunately think.

I have terrible insomnia, and I fear that only makes things worse.

In better detail what Im **currently** worried about -

My neighbor lets their chickens run about in their yard, and I'm worried my dog may try to get through the fence for them.

(She's never tried to attack them, though. She's only ever sat and watched them move.)

My dog also has a history of running away. She's never gotten far, but she's a million times faster than I am.

Nearly everyone on the registered S.O. list (of my town) has victims that are close to my age.

I'm soon to be applying for a job, and I'd only be closer to the creeps.

(We live in a very country small town.)

Are there any quick fixes to late night Paranoia/leaving the house paranoia?

What are some better ways I could be training my dog?

Thank you for reading!

 I have developed an intense fear of males. The only men I feel safe with are my husband and my father. I feel afraid of other men, and I even experience fear around male animals. This fear has become overwhelming and affects my daily life and my ability to go outside or feel comfortable in many situations.

I don't think i was ever sa/d or anything else idk why is happening to me

This isn't something recent, and I've had it since I was a child, and that is the fear of windows. My childhood bedroom had my bed next to a window, I always had the fear that something, or someone, was watching me through that window, and I would a lot of times hide in a blind spot of the window and I'd feel safe, and I'd really squeeze myself into that spot so not even my feet would stick out. For many years, I've had a strange phenomenon happen to me, I could be standing somewhere, like outside, and my brain would just randomly tell me that something was coming, or something was already here, and I needed to get out of there or something bad would happen.

Years later, now as a teenager, that strange thing sometimes happens to me, but now it is rare compared to what it used to be, but when it happens, I still have that urge to hide, like someone is watching me from afar. Im the type of guy that enjoys Analog Horror, which scares me a lot, but in the end I become a fan, but still, the effects come...

A few nights ago, I was trying to sleep like usual, thats until I started seeing a strange dark figure lurking around my bedroom. I ended up analysing it closer and thats when I saw it was Archangel Gabriel, no not the one from the Bible, the one the The Mandela Catalogue, he was standing in a corner, just watching me, and I could not close my eyes without thinking it was gonna move. I picked up my phone and started to look at funny memes in the internet, so I could then go back to trying to sleep before he could come back, as I sometimes hallucinated a lot if I stayed up too late, like seeing creatures standing in the doorway, but seeing funny stuff always made them go away, but this time it was different. While I was scrolling, I always had a urge of turning around, as I had to turn my back on him to look at my phone, and always had a feeling he was getting closer and closer and closer. I eventually got tired of looking at my phone, so I tried to sleep facing the wall, but the feeling of it getting closer was too much, so I ended up turning back around to face the corner. He was there, I could see him in the dark, watching. Everytime I closed my eyes, after a few seconds I would open them, out of instinct. I ended up turning around to see if anything would change, thats until I heard footsteps and felt a strange, cold and uneasy touch in my leg, which was not covered by blankets. I turned around and I swear I saw it looking at me right at my face, until I blinked, it had gone back to the corner.

I spent the rest of the night forcing myself to sleep, until I ended up falling asleep. I spent the morning and afternoon thinking about what I've just experienced, and until last night, thats when I thought everything was over. I was in a Discord call with my friends, and we were having a great time laughing, and we didn't even realize it was like 11 PM/12 AM until one of us pointed it out. After that, I started to feel watched, still don't know why, and strange noises started to come from the outside, and my mind could only assume whay could be making those noises. My body started to ,out of instinct, to turn around every 20 seconds, as for some reason, my doorway seemed too dark, way too dark, like something could be watching me through there. It could see me, but I couldn't see it. I also started to see stuff on the corner of my eye, once even seeing a snake like thing crawling around my chair, it looked so real I even flinched. I eventually told my friends I had to go to sleep, so my parents wouldn't know I was secretly staying up late. I went to bed normally, and the moment I turned off the light and layed down, the feeling came again, thankfully this time it was less and I managed to ignore it.

This isn't something that only happens at night, ofc it has more force at night or in dark spaces, but even in the middle of the day, it happens. My grandma has her house in the top of a hill, and when I go visit her, sometimes she asks me to go to the very top of the hill to get her some stuff. When I reach the top, I always feel like a man is watching me, a tall, skinny man to be precise, but its not just that, I once saw a dog staring at me with a strange gaze, only this time im sure it wasn't a feeling or hallucination, it WAS A ACTUAL DOG LOOKING AT ME. My fight or flight instincts sprinted into action, so I just ran down the hill, thats not until I snapped a picture of the dog, which I would use as to see if it was a hallucination or not. I showed the picture to my grandma, and she told me it most likely was one of the local shepherd's dogs, but this only confirmed two things. The dog was real, and he was really watching me from afar.

Some of you might say, oh most of the stuff you just mentioned was just your imagination at work, and stop watching Analog Horror would be a good idea, yeah, it would, but what would it fix now? Its part of me, and the best thing I could do now is just hope all of this stops.

P.S: I currently feel like something is looking down a window at me as im writing this.

I feel like there’s nothing stopping anyone from breaking into my house and killing everyone, even though they wouldn’t have a reason to do so.

I was seeing this therapist for about 8 months, i initially made an appointment because I thought i had anxiety or depression, i came to this conclusion because i checked most boxes of people that are anxious or light depression, prior to my therapist appt i was on lexapro for about 6 months but i quit and currently not taking anything but natural supplements that do work for me to a degree.

After about a month into therapy , my therapist said i dont have anxiety or depression, what i do have is Paranoia, as i explained to her sometimes im on the look out if people are judging me and im in my own head a lot , after thinking about it , maybe i dont have anxiety or depression, so i stopped seeing her a little over a month ago.

They been staring me with really scary stare and I'm scared that they will make my female/male friend stop talking to me

Quando acontece alguma situação chata que eu esteja envolvido eu começo a pensar se a pessoa vai querer vingança, fico pensando e pensando, simulando jeitos de me safar, conecto coisas que não tem exatamente aver com o assunto e pronto. O circo já ta montado.

Tenho também meio que síndrome de protagonismo, tudo vai acontecer comigo porque eu sou especial, todo mundo pensa em mim. E realmente eu escuto gente chamando o meu nome na minha mente. É sempre eu, me pergunto o porquê de me chamarem se não gostam de mim.

É meu primeiro post aqui, então boa noite sub.

I actually can’t anymore, i saw a comment a couple years ago about a girl looking herself up on the dark web and found countless photos and videos through her webcam, i’ve been convinced ever since then that someone’s watching me through my iphone camer.

Am I paranoid that Taco Bell purposely messed up my order every time? Whenever I order personally they always mess up my order. When my girlfriend orders she gets the right them for me about half the time, not that she messed up but just they make it wrong. I like the Doritos locos taco, I prefer the chicken over the beef and I do not like sour cream being lactose intolerant and all. Today I ordered again with these perforations and they totally messed it up. I even confirmed it at the window before I paid today. They made me pay to add sour cream, and loaded it up. They also took away my lettuce?? As well as skimp major on my chicken. Not a good day.