How do you stop being paranoid?

Answer 1

It depends on whether you are truly paranoid as in a mental illness such as schizophrenia. The only way for a schizophrenic to stop paranoia is to take their medication properly.

If you just mean that you have mild paranoid feelings once in a while, the way to stop that is to think realistically. If you have a thought that says something along the lines of "everybody's looking at me and laughing at my clothes," you counter that by saying "Realistically, some people might look at me because people always look at something new. However, people laughing are probably laughing at whatever they were already talking about and not laughing at me."