how do you deal with paranoia?

[anagogy]

Well, its a tricky situation because you are focused on the paranoia, which activates the vibration of paranoia which involves thoughts of "people are talking about me" which generates or attracts more experiences to feel paranoid about. If you think about people looking at you, you will start to notice a lot of people looking at you. And same goes for talking about you, or whatever. A manifestation will come in to fill the vacuum of expectation.

So you have to find a way to not focus on the thoughts of a paranoia. Fun riddle right? It's like a Chinese finger trap, in a way.

But if you want my opinion, this psychological distortion usually stems from the distortion known as self esteem issues (which are perfectly common and understandable).

If I were you I would spend more time contemplating various ways in which you are skilled, intelligent, like-able, and worthy, because the distortion almost always emanates from a belief in the opposite of those things. Don't worry about overly inflating your sense of ego. People who struggle with self esteem issues have an underdeveloped ego, and what would equate to over inflation to another is, in fact, perfectly balanced for some other people.

Stroke that ego! You're the man!