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 27, 2012
by artag March 18, 2018
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
by LTDZ November 27, 2017
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 17, 2023
When it's the beginning of spring and the weather says it's warm out, but because of the horrible winter you just had you don't believe it's actually warm and so you put on extra layers.
The weather man is saying it's 65 degrees out, but I got that Midwest Paranoia so I'm gonna wear a jacket.
by twofish22 March 30, 2015
When you reread what your wrote to make sure you haven’t accidentally slipped in something ridiculous/silly/stupid and have yet to fix it.
Sammy: Yo why do you keep rereading that email to Mr. Fass?
Paula: To make sure it’s all good.
Sammy: Ohhh, you got that editor’s paranoia! 💀
Paula: To make sure it’s all good.
Sammy: Ohhh, you got that editor’s paranoia! 💀
by GaspItsJasp May 1, 2023