Anxiety Leading to Paranoia

[stu99]

I've had problems with anxiety for almost a year now. Every now and then I'll have some problems with paranoia. Like today, I believed that someone was following me. After calming down, I realized that the chances that that person was actually following me was very low and that I was over analyzing the situation.

Does anyone have these sort of issues? If so, how do you cope with it?

[Anais]

I can sort of relate to that. I don't really assume that strangers have it in for me but the chronic anxiety has made me much more pessimistic, which I think is a bit like being paranoid. I generally assume bad outcomes or bad intentions in others.