It seems to me that you treat this as being a completely analytical problem. In cases where I would think I might suffer from being paranoid, I wouldn’t see analytical issues as the first problem.
I would likely read up on schizophenia. It’s a topic on which my current knowledge is limited.
From CBT it seems important to get ideas into writing to be able to clearly think about them. I would write down my assumptions and the threat model.
Social feedback is very important for staying sane in situations where one’s faced with complex information. If there are certain people I do trust (family or friends I know for a long time), I would speak with them about the situation.
I might make the move of saying: “Let’s pretend for a moment, that people really conspire. Would that be really that problematic?”
I might make the move of saying: “Let’s pretend for a moment, that people really conspire. Would that be really that problematic?”
We do really conspire! Conspiring is at best a handy social and economic coordination activity. At worst it is a big bunch of no fun, where people have to pretend to be conspiring while they’d really rather be working on personal projects, flirting, or playing video games; and everyone comes out feeling like they need to hide their freakish incompetence at pursuing the goals of the conspiracy.
It seems to me that you treat this as being a completely analytical problem. In cases where I would think I might suffer from being paranoid, I wouldn’t see analytical issues as the first problem.
I would likely read up on schizophenia. It’s a topic on which my current knowledge is limited.
From CBT it seems important to get ideas into writing to be able to clearly think about them. I would write down my assumptions and the threat model. Social feedback is very important for staying sane in situations where one’s faced with complex information. If there are certain people I do trust (family or friends I know for a long time), I would speak with them about the situation.
I might make the move of saying: “Let’s pretend for a moment, that people really conspire. Would that be really that problematic?”
We do really conspire! Conspiring is at best a handy social and economic coordination activity. At worst it is a big bunch of no fun, where people have to pretend to be conspiring while they’d really rather be working on personal projects, flirting, or playing video games; and everyone comes out feeling like they need to hide their freakish incompetence at pursuing the goals of the conspiracy.
We usually call it “having meetings” though.