Basically anyone who believes they're going to get caught with a dick joke at any given moment. Doubting every question and reason.
Person X: *asks anything*
Person Y: "Ok, kys kid. Where's the dick joke?"
Person X: "You literally have dick joke paranoia, smh."
Person Y: "Ok, kys kid. Where's the dick joke?"
Person X: "You literally have dick joke paranoia, smh."
by Vincent Alex January 16, 2023

by artag May 12, 2018

A state of mind when in a swimming pool after going under water and coming back up and finding snot around your nose. The rest of time at the poll is spent checking your nose.
*dives in pool, resurfaces* "did yall see that?! " "no...aw gross man wipe your nose......sick!!" what!?! Oh #$%& !! .....man now I'm gonna have snot paranoia
by YnoT June 29, 2012

by lavajellybeans October 31, 2023

The feeling a competitive person might experience while using the app Strava: uncomfortably haunting, being watched, followed and judged by other competitive Strava users (strava wankers) based on one's performance.
Might ultimately provoke performance burn-out and/or loss of enjoyment of recreational sportive activities due to a predominantly kudo-focused attitude.
Might ultimately provoke performance burn-out and/or loss of enjoyment of recreational sportive activities due to a predominantly kudo-focused attitude.
Simong: Hey guys, you heard that Fred said he wouldn't enjoy cycling anymore and is private on Strava now?
Kongo: Yeah, the poor lad suffers from severe Strava paranoia and can only enjoy exercise with top performance levels on Strava.
Kongo: Yeah, the poor lad suffers from severe Strava paranoia and can only enjoy exercise with top performance levels on Strava.
by glrd May 16, 2020

To feel fear, or to feel threatened, from a situation that you have little control over or that you are not directly affected by. The overwhelming fear is usually not caused by the situation itself but by people exaggerating information to make you obsess over what's going on.
Bystanders Paranoia (or Citizens Paranoia) is different from feeling legitimate fear for yourself and your loved ones due to an outside force that has a significant of hurting you.
Bystanders Paranoia is fear that is, most of the time, brought on by political discourse, in which news sources and journalists over-hype to get you to feel more dependent on said news sources.
The fear will then cause the affected to spend every moment of their time focusing on nothing but how the news tells them to feel about the situation, afraid and unsafe.
Those affected by Bystanders Paranoia will be unable to recognize that the people telling them these stories are only manipulating their fear to get them to listen to more monotonous, disingenuous reports on the situation.
Bystanders Paranoia (or Citizens Paranoia) is different from feeling legitimate fear for yourself and your loved ones due to an outside force that has a significant of hurting you.
Bystanders Paranoia is fear that is, most of the time, brought on by political discourse, in which news sources and journalists over-hype to get you to feel more dependent on said news sources.
The fear will then cause the affected to spend every moment of their time focusing on nothing but how the news tells them to feel about the situation, afraid and unsafe.
Those affected by Bystanders Paranoia will be unable to recognize that the people telling them these stories are only manipulating their fear to get them to listen to more monotonous, disingenuous reports on the situation.
Boy 1: I'm kind of worried about Leann, she been doing nothing but watching CNN and reading ABC News for days. She always seems like she's terrified of something.
Girl 1: I think those news channels gave her Bystanders Paranoia. Poor thing.
Boy 2: I fucking hate journalists. All of them are fags.
Girl 1: I think those news channels gave her Bystanders Paranoia. Poor thing.
Boy 2: I fucking hate journalists. All of them are fags.
by chatterbug779 August 1, 2021
