or is it just your partner-who makes you think you are?
2007-05-11 08:06:28 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
I think that there are situations where either is possible. If you are generally a paranoid person in many different kinds of situations, then you might just be overreacting. If you find that you are paranoid with your current partner (and not with previous ones), then there might be a reason. In either event, it is very difficult to have a successful relationship when one or both people are suspicious of the other. Perhaps taking a look at what exactly makes you paranoid and whether that kind of thing would bother you if you were with someone else. If the answer is no, then you might be sensing something worth being paranoid about. Try talking about why you are paranoid with your partner. Sometimes it is just a lack of communication that is at fault.
2007-05-11 08:16:03 · answer #1 · answered by becky c 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many partners do practice a form of verbal abuse that makes you think you are paranoid or delusional.
My former partner made me think I was so disorganized that I didn't even know where my baking pans were placed. Before we finalized our settlement, I had another person help me go through the attic and basement to check for personal items that I wanted. It was a rather large attic and we went through it systematically from one end to the other, each taking a side. At one point this fellow yelled out to me, "Why on earth would you have so many baking pans and cookie sheets?" There they were all the missing cooking utensils...
If someone is trying to make you feel unstable, read this book: The Verbally Abusive Man, Can He Change," by Patricia Evans. (You said "partner," so you can substitute that word for "man.")
http://www.verbalabuse.com/Books.shtml
Then get yourself into individual or group counseling.
2007-05-11 15:28:08 · answer #2 · answered by Beach Saint 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
ROTFLMTO...I am not paranoid beyond what is normal. I only laugh because my partner tells me I am paranoid all the time and I have tried to tell him that paranoia and worry are not one in the same (I have an anxiety disorder...long prior to the relationship).
Dusty
2007-05-11 15:14:04 · answer #3 · answered by Dust in the Wind 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some people in my past gave me reasons to be paranoid. At the present time, only two of my six children (adults) are making me feel that way.
2007-05-11 15:18:06 · answer #4 · answered by Holiday Magic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Got any other people you hang out with think the same way about you?
If they don't think you have a problem, your partners an *** to make you think there's something wrong with you.
2007-05-11 15:10:04 · answer #5 · answered by MLJ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that people aren't out to get you.
2007-05-11 15:12:42 · answer #6 · answered by charliecizarny 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
not sure --- maybe a little bit
2007-05-11 15:14:54 · answer #7 · answered by --------------- 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sometimes
2007-05-11 15:14:17 · answer #8 · answered by obrien332004 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋