Both my dad and grandpa have severe paranoia and delusions where they'll fixate on random things like wires in the house catching on fire or a lamppost outside falling on someone. It'll be random shit like that but I'm pretty concerned for myself that I might be next in having this. I have no symptoms but it's still worrisome. What should I do?
visit a psychologist (a good one that gives a shit about doing a fine job) and tell them about this and ask them how to know if you are developing a mental illness and what to do in such a case.for what it's worth, i think your relatives seem to have some kind of obsessive-compulsive anxiety disorder rather than neurologically based conditions like schizophrenia. it can be a subtle distinction but obsessive compulsive threat scanning is quite different from having paranoid delusions, though it can be just as ridiculous in its effects. like disinfecting the whole house 7 times a day for example is obsessive compulsive but is based on real threat scanning (hygiene based) that is just extremely abnormally overtuned. whereas a paranoid delusion would be something like hearing planes flying overhead and thinking that the russian communist party is using these planes to attack you with psychotronic weapons or seeing strangers walking on the street and thinking that they are stalking you specifically.the obsessive compulsive ones are less hereditary and have more to do with habitual behaviours and anxiety levels, like if you are super traumatised and have a constant low intensity feeling that you are in danger but can't find any rational sources of danger, one way this can express itself is obsessive compulsive threat scanning.
>>34635604Relax. Before any of those things happen, the mountain just outside town will prove to be a volcano and erupt.
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>>34635604Call them fags.
