dealing with irrational anxiety
I don’t know what to do about my irrational fear?
For a little over a month now I’ve been fearing that someone can read my thoughts, or someone is constantly watching me. I don’t like being around people, haven’t for as long as I can remember, but now every time I’m with someone I get the feeling that my thoughts are being read. I get headaches from trying to block my thoughts or telling whoever it is to get out of my head. I know it’s crazy, but I can’t help but feel violated.
Also, when I’m alone, I feel like someone is constantly watching me so it’s just nerve-racking. I feel like I can’t breathe. I don’t know what to do. I can’t even google anything anymore because I keep thinking someone is going to keep track of everything.
How do I stop being a looney? It’s already hard to deal with the anxiety I get around people or in social situations and this is far too much for me to handle.
Are you doing something illegal when googling? No? So what if the entire world know what you’re doing? Come on…billions of people use google. They can’t all be watched by someone…Anyway, being human means you do not live on an island. Even w/out technology, you live in a society, with many other human beings. It’s not like any of us has complete privacy…Besides, none of us are that important to be monitored and watched by others:)))
Perhaps you should look up “Cognitive Distortions.” It’s basically a list of logical error that people make everyday and that distort their perceptions of the world, of reality.
One of the distortions is exactly “Mind Reading,” when we think we know what others think..
But this is humanly impossible, to know what another human being is thinking. It’s just a projection of my own fears and anxieties..but it’s not logically correct to think I can ever KNOW what someone is thinking. My assumption that I can read someone’s mind is not based on hard facts, evidence but on feelings, on my own inner feelings. Think about some times when you were “sure” someone was thinking something abt you, only to be proven wrong, that the person’s opinion was very different that what you thought. People do not really focus so much on your mistakes or issues, becuase they are busy focusing on theirs.