When paranoia takes its course I don't know whether to stay or run but how can you run from your own mind? I try to escape from its grip but it's dragging me in and consuming me. I can hardly breathe. I can't move yet everything is racing around me, like a vortex, the darkness beckoning my soul. I feel my heart beating and the sweat on my skin yet nothing can draw me from this paralytic state of fear. I know it's not real.Β I know nothing will happen but the trepidationΒ is the contortionist of my mind, I'm no longer in control and here I must face my inner demons.