Paranoia is a mental disorder. It is accompanied by some crazy ideas that develop in the mind of the patient. He does not trust his family, relatives and friends. The paranoid reacts very sharply to this or that behavior of people, categorically does not accept any criticism addressed to him. Including, he will never admit that he is paranoid. This formation of delusional thoughts is closely related to the character and personality of the patient. The fact is that the paranoid is delirious not because he misjudges the world around him, but for the simple reason that he has a pronounced internal conflict with himself.
Paranoia is a state of mind in which the patient is unable to adequately evaluate their ideas. He has his own value system, far from the real world. In other words, there is a deep chasm between the paranoid and the world around him. As a result, the patient feels that he is needed by society, but at the same time he is not able to establish a connection with the outside world!
Unfortunately, there are no obvious signs confirming this mental disorder until its critical phase. Most patients with paranoia end up in a psychiatric ward already with a progressive disorder. However, if you look closely, you can understand that some symptoms can still be traced.
Signs of paranoia
As mentioned above,
The main sign of a potential paranoid is his crazy ideas, which are always based on distrust of others, on a suspicious attitude towards them. The paranoid misinterprets any situation, attaching great importance to various insignificant little things. For such people, it is common to exaggerate and paint everything in negative colors. For example, a paranoid person suffering from delusions of persecution will easily suspect that a person who looks askance at him is his enemy, a maniac or a terrorist! Or, for example, a spouse suffering from delusions of jealousy will "bring to the handle" his wife, arranging constant scandals about any of her delays at work. The saddest thing in all this is that no evidence and reasonable arguments refuting the patient's crazy ideas have any force for him. He just won't accept them!
Paranoia is not schizophrenia!
Many believe that both of these mental disorders are one and the same. This is not true. Patients with paranoia are overwhelmed with some unfounded criticism of the whole world around them. At the same time, they are not for anything in the worldaccept criticism at their own address. As they say, "everyone in the world is bad, and you alone are wonderful!" They do not have visual and auditory hallucinations, as in schizophrenics. Moreover, paranoids are not subject to some phantasmagoric ideas, which cannot be said about schizophrenics. However, sometimes both diseases can complement each other, for example, with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia.
The whole logic of a paranoid person is based on his own conclusions. And after all, it is almost impossible for an adequate person to find a "gap" in this! Everything seems to be logical for the patient. But only not the initial links of his "paranoid" chain, on the basis of which the false conclusion is built.
