Paranoia: Rampant Disease of Our Time

By Paul Ryan

The paranoid "modern" is a suspicious person, lowest, convinced that all plot a locus against him, friends, relatives, close family members, interprets and processes simple acts of kindness as attacks on his person. Consequently, it is deeply and fundamentally hostile to everything around him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: ALVIS International Editions
• Release date: Sep 28, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301101672

Paul Ryan

My name is Paul Ryan and I live in Kent, England I am married with two children . I have always enjoyed reading and writing books, so one day I thought why not try to publish some, so here we are, my dream is to one day be a author.

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Paranoia

Rampant Disease of Our Time

Paul Ryan

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INDEX

Introduction

Historical Features

Subjective Character

Phenomenology

Symptoms

Diagnostic

Associated Disorders

Persecutory Ideation

Paraphrenia

Paranoia and Social Phobia

Paranoia and Hypochondria

Paranoia and Stress

Therapy

Bibliography

Introduction

The Paranoia (from the greek παράνοια, madness, consisting of παρά, over, and a theme similar to νοῦς, mind) indicates, according to the perennially valid definition that gave E. Kraepelin, a psychosis characterized by the insidious development of a chronic delirium, systematized, consistent, unwavering, a slow evolution, with integrity of the other psychic functions. The etymology of the term paranoia means near the mind or out of mind and indicates in its most general form, a system of ideas or beliefs that differ from reality as it is commonly perceived. Usually we use this word to refer to ideas of persecution: the paranoiac is convinced that someone angry with him or is hunting, when entering a room feel all eyes on him, he suspected the fidelity of or partner is convinced that in his absence the other person speak ill of him.

In defining the meaning of the term paranoia should first distinguish the use made of it daily from its meaning in the medical-psychiatric jargon. In everyday language the term paranoia is often used to define purely pathological conditions in which a person is considered a victim of persecution or even to connote people simply characterized by anxiety and apprehension, thus meaning paranoia as a stronger form of fear or distress. In psychiatric language the term paranoia, now obsolete and replaced by the concept of delusional disorder (persecutory in its subtype), may indicate a psychotic condition in which the person creates in a lucid and systematic system of conceptions and beliefs centered on the idea of being pathological persecuted or be subjected to a real threat. This belief manifests itself in particular with ideas such as being spied on, stalked, being victims of conspiracies, assassination or poisoning. The condition of paranoia, when it presents itself in the form of delusional disorder itself, occurs in the absence of bizarre delusions (i.e. it concerns situations that may actually exist in real life) and the person's behavior is not particularly bizarre or extravagant. The operation, moreover, in part as follows to delirium, not be affected significantly. A condition of paranoia may occur, however, not only as persecutory subtype delusional disorder, but also as a result of other conditions. Among these are the intake of stimulants such as cocaine and amphetamines; schizophrenia, which often has bizarre manifestations of visual and auditory hallucinations, or, conversely absent in delusional disorder, in conjunction with mood disorders (in this case with psychotic features) and in paranoid personality disorder, but where the paranoid ideation are not as sharp and persistent than those present in the form properly delusional. Famous names over the centuries have made history, among them, oddly enough, the people who suffered from paranoia were the most visible. The paranoid delusions often has precise and unambiguous processing in function of desires and aspirations, these ideas are often accompanied by delusions of omnipotence. A striking example was Hitler, his conviction of the need to create purebred is a typical paranoid behavior adapted to a personal conviction, he thought of having to eliminate all forms of life that