All about paranoia
Paranoia is a complex mental and emotional disorder. Paranoid delirium is a form of psychosis. The paranoid person has a distorted perception of reality, dominated by exaggerated ideas or beliefs. It is characterized by distrust, permanent doubt, erroneous interpretations of reality accompanied by a feeling of persecution. A paranoid person has two significant difficulties: 1- The inability to distinguish the internal world (her subjectivity, her emotions, her ideas) and the external world which is a set of social conventions, thus considering what she feels as an irrefutable reality. The paranoid does not realize his condition. 2- The inability to deal with the other and the refusal of opinions different from one's own. The paranoiac is persuaded to be right, which makes dialogue very difficult. Evolution of the concept In psychiatry, paranoia was first considered a form of dementia diagnosed separately. Later, it became an apparent symptom in ...