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  2. paranoia: [noun] mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations.

  3. PARANOIA definition: 1. an extreme and unreasonable feeling that other people do not like you or are going to harm or…. Learn more.

  4. www.melissarobertsfoundation.org.au › wp-contentUNDERSTANDING PARANOIA

    People who experience paranoia are often intelligent, sensitive and perfectionists. They can also be very imaginative. On occasions the paranoia can be an unfortunate misuse of the imagination. Try to look beyond the paranoia and try to identify the person’s qualities outside of the paranoia.

  5. Paranoia definition: a mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions and the projection of personal conflicts, which are ascribed to the supposed hostility of others, sometimes progressing to disturbances of consciousness and aggressive acts believed to be performed in self-defense or as a mission..

  6. the most general meaning, like any number of colloquialisms such as "nuts," "the lights are on but nobody's home," and so on. The word is not used in ancient or medieval medicine, nor was there the concept of paranoia, although ancient medicine had numerous names for particular mental illnesses. Paranoia becomes a medical concept only in the eigh­

  7. experiences meaning. Peter explains the process of developing paranoia. He tells us that paranoia fluctuates with the life circumstances of the person. He shows us the phases in a process interacting with problems in daily life. These can be different in different phases. In his case it was the mental abuse by a babysitter when

  8. The earliest known use of the noun paranoia is in the mid 1700s. OED's earliest evidence for paranoia is from 1749, in a dictionary by John Barrow, teacher of mathematics and writer. paranoia is a borrowing from Latin.

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