Lately I’ve been concerned by my hypersensitive/hyperreactive to certain stimuli, and I’m wondering if it’s a sign that I’m paranoid to an extent. Here are some examples-

If I’m in public and hear a car horn of unknown origin, many times I assume it’s for me and that I must have done something wrong. 

A man and woman in an immediately adjacent building were yelling towards my building’s pool deck for a solid 5 minutes. It sounded like “Eww”, but that was likely my imagination l. I was the only one out there, so I assumed that they were judging me for my skimpy swimsuit. For a moment it seemed so bizarre that I doubted my own sanity and asked the woman next to me if she heard the yelling. To my relief she said yes, but she was able to shrug it off and went back to sunbathing. 

Sometimes I doubt whether my friends actually like me or if they secretly are annoyed by me.

There was a time where I was worried that I was the only one hearing an odd hissing noise during class. Nobody else could hear it but me, and several of my colleagues told me they couldn’t hear what I was referring to. I became concerned that I was developing schizophrenia or a similar paranoia disorder. Later after class I investigated and found that the projector had a broken fan that created the ambient noise. 

Although I have nothing major to hide, I worry about internet privacy and somehow having my personal information exposed via doxxing/cancelling. I’ve even physically destroyed old hard drives from when I was a teenager (18+ mind you) because I worried that somehow someone would be able to retrieve my nudes if I recycled my computer. 

What’s an acceptable level of paranoia? I sincerely worried that I’m going insane or have some aspects of paranoid schizophrenia.