how can i ' work out ' this problem

at times i get paranoid, i've had paranoia since age 16, i'm 48 now...and in the present time, at times, i get the persistent obsessive ideas that i've been 'portrayed' to people wrongly? and now 'people' have a perception of me which isn't true? a negative unfavorable perception.

i have no evidence of these ideas, i never have done, no one's ever said to me and said ' are you this or that or associated with this person ' etc but just a feeling, like i suspect these ideas.

but sometimes i worry i see evidence for these suspicions or ideas i get when i'm online, in interactions i have or replies i get, because i've had times where someone has posted something ' not true ' about me and i've said to that person ' no that's not true'...and times where someone else has assumed things which were untrue and not relevant to me? and i thought ' where did these people get those ideas from' or ' why did they post that or think it? '- when i'm a stranger to that person? ie- why would someone i don't know say those things or those words, which are not relevant to me?

then the paranoid ideas returned of ' am i being portrayed wrongly to people ' and ' do people have a perception of me that is false and not true'?

can anyone give reassurance or just help me to work out this problem? just one good reply would help with this, as i find reassurance from people and discussing it takes away this paranoia.

durinsBane1983 · 46-50, M

@MayorOfCrushtown random people on the net, i've been online since 2005 and over the years i've had some replies, comments, interactions where someone has posted something untrue or not relevant to me or my life at all, and as i mentioned, from that i thought ' why are people posting this stuff when they don't know me ' and because i have a tendency to paranoia anyway, i got the ideas that there was some type of orchestrated conspiracy to ' falsely portray me to people' and now some people perceive me not based in reality.