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1. • • Paranoia is excessive mistrust or suspicion of people -thinking incorrectly, for example, that someone is trying to hurt you, that people are doing things to deliberately annoy you or that there is a conspiracy against you. Its severest form is persecutory delusion where there is a high degree of belief in the thoughts, distress and disruption.
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   Can paranoia be explained?

   • Paranoia has increasingly become a topic of study in its own right, especially from a social and psychological perspective. In this paper, we bring together the learning from our own work on paranoia to test the extent to which paranoia may now be explained.

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   What does paranoia look like?

   • One sees in all forms of paranoia a certain grandiosity and intense self-reference. The idea is: Everything that happens in the world is in relation to me. Better to be important in this way, notes McWilliams, than to inhabit a victim narrative and feel that one is actually very weak and helpless among a world of powerful people.

   New Insights Into Paranoia | Psychology Today

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   Does paranoia involve socio-cognitive abilities?

   • In this Review, we argue that paranoia involves all of these socio-cognitive abilities and that the human ability for paranoid thinking evolved in response to these social selection pressures.

   An evolutionary perspective on paranoia | Nature Human Behaviour

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3. www.psychologytoday.com › us › blogParanoia May Not Be What You Think It Is | Psychology Today

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   Aug 13, 2023 · Up and Running. Psychosis. Paranoia May Not Be What You Think It Is. This complicated occurrence is more complex than fear, but not always psychosis. Updated August 13, 2023|Reviewed by Tyler...

   • New Insights Into Paranoia

     There are different types of paranoia, yet all share two...

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4. mentalhealth.bmj.com › content › 26Explaining paranoia: cognitive and social processes in the ...

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   Background Paranoia—incorrectly thinking that others are deliberating trying to harm you—causes distress, undermines social interactions and leads to withdrawal. It presents across multiple psychiatric diagnoses. Objective The primary aim was to determine the extent that cognitive and social processes may explain paranoia.

5. www.businessinsider.com › guides › healthParanoid Personality Disorder (PPD): Symptoms, Causes, and ...

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   Feb 17, 2022 · Paranoid personality disorder (PPD) is a mental health condition that can cause extreme mistrust and fear of other people, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of...

6. www.nature.com › articles › s41562/018/0495-0An evolutionary perspective on paranoia | Nature Human Behaviour

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   Dec 17, 2018 · Current conceptualization of paranoia. A persecutory belief is considered to be the central defining feature of paranoia and includes two essential elements: (1) a belief that harm will...

7. www.mind.org.uk › paranoia › about-paranoiaWhat is paranoia? - Mind

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   Learn what it means to experience paranoia. Our introduction to paranoia looks at common types of paranoid thoughts, plus how it relates to mental health.