PERSONAL POINTERS
1. [To deal with paranoia in your own head,] the first thing to do is cop that it’s possible that you’re being paranoid. The trouble with paranoia is, when you’re doing it, you don’t think you’re doing it. One way to know for sure that you’re having an attack of paranoia: You’re probably future-tripping. You probably have plans or anxieties about things that may or may not happen in the future, and you’re worrying about them. When you’re out in the future, the probabilities are thinner. It’s like a squirrel running out on the branches, and when the branches get thinner, it gets shakier. That shakiness can cause paranoia on its own – merely the probabilities getting shaky can make you paranoid. What you have to do is recognize that paranoia is not a real emotion – that it’s a nonsurvival trip, and you have to just let go of it. MNC51 …. more