by LTDZ April 21, 2018

When you are driving and the car behind you makes several of the same turns as you do, causing you to become paranoid and take routes you normally wouldn't take just to see if they are following you.
Ed: why are you late?
Tom: I got lost. This car kept turning when I turned so I got Highway Paranoia and ended up on a dirt road.
Tom: I got lost. This car kept turning when I turned so I got Highway Paranoia and ended up on a dirt road.
by killersbytrade March 30, 2009

“Karen how do you feel today?”
“I feel a bit naff actually, but I got pinged by the app yesterday so I think it’s just ping paranoia”
“I feel a bit naff actually, but I got pinged by the app yesterday so I think it’s just ping paranoia”
by JonE28 July 15, 2021

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

When you creeping with someone on the low and you think everyone in the circle knows about your coochie.
Person 1: I just so and so’s friend you think he knows about us??
Person 2: NAH
Person 1: you sure? He lookin hella hard
Person 2: Girl you’re just suffering from coochie paranoia.
Person 2: NAH
Person 1: you sure? He lookin hella hard
Person 2: Girl you’re just suffering from coochie paranoia.
by The problem_solver May 4, 2018

When I was faithless and denied God I had paranoias that I was innately hell bound by being the only god and failing with life, also by being so different then the rest of existence and that my hatred of all life affected all life negatively.
by StickOfGod October 15, 2017
