has anyone else had this symptom?

[lynn]

I have been under a lot of stress at work with a hostile work area for about 3 years and now I think I am so paranoid and anxious that I hear people talking about me when they are really talking about something else. I actually hear words that indicate to me that they are talking about me. (either that or they have me fooled now and really are talking about me and telling me they aren't). So I am now thinking that I am somehow distorting what I hear and making it fit what I fear most. I feel so crazy. I am under the care of a therapist and see her tomorrow. Thanks for any comments. :o

[Dr. Adams]

This has been going on for three years. You describe frankly paranoid thinking and hypervigilent behavior. You are seeing a "therapist" (never quite sure what that means since the definition appears to vary among people). I assume that you cannot leave the job, the therapist cannot help you and that you have suffered for the past three years. Is that accurate?