When you're mind isn't in the right place, it's easy to mistake every event for something that it's not. I've been paranoid before in my own house thinking noises downstairs is someone breaking in(as there once was a break-in here), but there's other people living in my house and I know there's a 99.99999% chance it's just one of the other residents. With every little noise, I got more and more paranoid. In reality, someone was just downstairs cleaning the kitchen, which lasted for a while. Other days when I'm not suffering any paranoia or effects from stims, I can walk outside during the night no problem and have a smoke. Nothing bothers me. On that particular night(s) where paranoia sat in, walking outside would have been terrifying as I was having issues just walking to the downstairs. I agree with the statement "Automatically assume everything is just paranoia until your sober and never get into an argument or discussion about anything until then", I recently had a bad break down after a meth binge, which I rarely do. So It left me pretty depressed for a couple days as I came down. During that time, I thought I was over the negative effects/paranoia but clearly I wasn't and I got my parents involved thinking I was having some mental break-down, which I go through a lot of depression and shit but this was on a new level. Almost border-line suicidal grade depression/paranoia, that was just part of a really rough meth crash that I let them see. It has settled down, but I think they're still worried about me when in reality I'm not THAT depressed. gotta let your body/brain normalize.