Is it normal that i get really paranoid!???

Please, I really have no idea what's wrong with me or what this is.

I get really freaked out sometimes... It doesn't happen that often but if someone laughs at me I start like sweating and feeling really terrible and angry and just scared, especially if I can't tell if they mean it badly or not... I'm really bad at detecting sarcasm/irony/jokes etc... If someones laughing at me in a mean way I can just yell at them, if it's in a good way I can laugh with them, but if I can't tell what am I supposed to do!??? So i freak out.

I remember when I was like 5, at church people made me sing and dance on stage. I really didn't want to, and people started to laugh at me. Apparently it was cause I was "cute" but i didn't think that so i got really mad and I felt horrible, because everybody was laughing at me and I cried. that made them laugh harder.

Also once i got lost in the city and I was all alone so i felt really paranoid and started to run, i ran for like an hour and the whole time i was like hyperventilating and my vision was all blurry and I started to feel like all the people in the street were staring at me and they were like evil or something. I kept fingering the nail file in my pocket... i felt like i was going to be attacked.

I have no idea what's wrong with me. Please, please give me some answers. I hope this was understandable, I was trying to explain it all and i probably failed.

Is It Normal?
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  • Take a break and love yourself

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  • I once had this really weird feeling that people were staring at me in my high school lunch room when i was walking back to the table with my lunch. i forgot where i a was at and didn't recognize anyone. i droped my try and started running and sat down. it was really embarasing and definitely wasn't a good feeling. i don't know what happened to me rather but i can sorta relate to this.

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  • It sounds like you take things too personal.
    Don't take this personal hut your a creep quit being paranoid no one will ever like you if you keep doing this. You'll be alone for ever and your pets will die young if you don't stop. I also heard that you can die from too much of it.

    Oh shoot wrong poll!! Oh well. Whatever it your poll was about, good luck!

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    • ?? I'm not really sure what you're saying.

      Do you think I'm a creep and I'll die alone, or do you wish me good luck?

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  • Normal? In a neighbour full of small minded criminals who laugh at eachother sadistically and are kind of a step back in the evolutionary chart. Yeah. It is normal.
    You might wanna find other people to hang out with. People who actually do not ask you to take stupid jokes about your so called defects and who actually have got a conscience. Rather than the bunch of sadistic possessive intimidating freaky weirdos you are surrounded by. Who would accept to live amongst these people anyway? That's why most of them have that no way out of it feeling. Ask yourself:why should I be putting up with and bowing to whoever does these things? If you take one of these jokes and laughs the so called right way you end up being socially diminished, everyone else is then authorized to think less of you, because laughing at a joke about one of your or someone else defects is like proving them right in what they are doing. you can't tell the difference? Well, why should you? Why should you? It gets on your nerves, period. It is either they stop or you do not hang out with any of em. From my point of wiev it is normal if behaviors other people consider normal freak you out. Even if they are widely accepted as normal. Who cares about what other people think. If it is the wrong crowd it is the wrong crowd, and no matter how hard you try it will stay the wrong crowd. It will feel wrong.
    I know exactly how you feel, happens to me all the time. And I realize I am not the problem. Because I can hang out with other people who interact in a different way just fine. Everytime I get out there and find myself amongst a bunch of people or near them I feel like they are a bunch of hyenas who are going to eat me alive shortly. And well, they are evil. They prove it everyday as far as I am concerned. They might not be aware of it but matter of fact they are. Who says I should be feeling positively in front of positive emotional responses all the time? If they are laughing, and the way the are doing it,what they are laughing about worries me,for the simple fact that I don't really see anything good for me in it, it is only natural for me to run away as far away as I can from them. Everyone is laughing, having what they consider a good time, and If instead of having a good time too I freak out and run away then there is something wrong with me. Nope. There is something wrong with them. I don't like the way they are laughing don't like the way they make jokes I don't like what they do to get a laugh npr how they do it, everything they do has to me only one meaning: these people are trouble. I am not safe. I must get away from them. Bring down all the bridges and make sure they never get in contact with me ever again. And if it is necessary, disappear altogether. And if they do not let me, and keep appearing anywhere I go, or keep me in their reach, then I consider myself their prisoner. So what?

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    • Thanks for taking so much time for this, I really get a bit worried about it all.
      And it's not my friends that do this, really, it's other people that are around me...
      For example, people always used to make fun of me in elementary school because someone said "Hi" to me and I said "Hi!!" back really enthusiastically and apparently they were being sarcastic. It hurt me a lot and afterwards all the mean people ALWAYS said hi to me, in the same way, and I knew they were making fun of me... So I just kind of ignored them, because what in hell could I have done without it being awkward???
      So for years after that when people who looked unfriendly said "Hi" to me, I would get really uneasy and ignore them. Sometimes, they actually WEREN'T joking, and they were just like "o...kay..." and at that point I would always know that they thought I was a freak now.
      I used to get picked on loads for being the only Asian... and I guess that just made me get all paranoid

      In high school everything is a lot better. People matured, and got nicer. But I think that my mind might be a bit fragile, and all those things have affected me pretty badly...

      I'm really glad that I'm not the only one. What you talked about is pretty close to the way I feel. But it's not like I can just shut out everybody who laughs at me... Life doesn't work that way, i've learned. What do I say when awkward/scary situations like these arise?? without damaging relations?? If I lash out at people everyhting just gets worse, and ignoring really does make me feel and look like a wierdo.

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  • Are you high?

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