Individuals With Paranoid Personality Disorders

-coping with paranoia by lighting up dark rooms or doing a check around the house if I feel as if someone is inside.

Fear a powerful emotion, once it is born it is merely impossible for it to perish. Fear corrupts, tortures, and haunts all. Humans have a horror encrypted into their core. With the power of holding one's fear forms the feeling of paranoia leading to the most holiest power of all, control. Throughout history paranoia has been used to control mass populations and indoctrinate their mind. A common example of this, is the reign of Joseph Stalin; dictator of the Soviet Union who used the paranoia of death and being sent to concentration camp to control his citizens and sustain power. George Orwell, a man who recognized this demoralizing form of dictatorship and was terrified, of what might come if no one rebelled against this. Furthermore he

For individuals suspected of suffering from paranoid personality disorder, the American Psychiatric Association’s (2000) DSM-IV-TR outlines the diagnostic criteria that must be met before a diagnosis of PPD can be assigned. These criteria stipulate that onset occurs by early adulthood, in various settings, and that the individual exhibits patterns of ubiquitous distrust and deviousness of others that are construed as evil, unkind, and spiteful. In addition, the individual must present with at least four or more of the following: (1) suspicion that others are deceptive, manipulative, or are a danger to them without probable cause; (2) preoccupation with unwarranted misgivings about the fidelity of close

Irrational emotional symptoms can develop among a group of individuals if and when they undergo an inexplicable situation. The human minds develop a sense of paranoia, and in some cases it is unhandable. Such mental abnormality becomes the essence of the downfall of the group. An environmental incident can invoke fear in human minds, thus a dysfunctional communicating system is created, triggering mass hysteria. Although it is believed that mass hysteria can be controlled, scientists have proven it to be unpredictable and limitless.

Sometimes fear has the ability to make one feel as if they are losing their mind completely. Fear often has the ability to eat away at a person. In The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, the author demonstrates how fear can cause paranoia.

When a paranoid system of belief is combined with suspicious events, it is all but natural to

A. This chapter deals with the concept of how our countries private industrial interests are making money off creating fear in the public. He talks about how the media creates fear using national and international issues to create fear in us. He also talks about how our Government is a part of the media’s strategy to create fear in society. Also, that the church plays into it by responding to what is seen and reported in the news as a response to the times. - 82 words

These constant stressors of being oppressed on a daily basis is a threat to well-being, self-worth, and provokes the feeling of danger,

At the break of the day I wake up before the sun has even settled itself back into the sky, I repeat my dreary morning routine, and I go somewhere. I go somewhere by myself, quite alone, maybe in my car, maybe just for a walk around the neighborhood. While I’m out on my walk or after I’ve driven somewhere and gotten out of my car (that seriously needs a run through the car wash), I become aware. I become vividly aware of all the people around me and feel unsafe, I feel unsafe in my own neighborhood because I heard a woman was held at gunpoint not far from here, I feel unsafe because I’ve binge watched Criminal Minds and I know how easy it is for unsuspecting women who feel safe in public, at stores and in parking lots, to be abducted.

Over time, humankind has tried to observe, evaluate, and correct oppressive tendencies between individuals and society. However, they have failed to eliminate the barriers individuals and groups face even today. By oppression, I mean, a set of forces and obstacles that are systematically related to one another, that work to restrict and restraint, and as a result prevent one’s mobility (Frye 85). One theorist, Sandra Bartky, offered her ideas in On Psychological Oppression. She argued that one can be psychologically oppressed by their thoughts and lack of self-esteem due to institutionalized and systematic barriers that exist; causing fragmentation (loss of self) and mystification (blaming oneself) (Bartky, p. 106). I support Bartky’s

Has it ever crossed your mind that you are not always safe? Certain situations are more risky and treacherous. But some places are safer than other. For example your home, church, and even school. But are you real safe at any of those places? What keeps someone from coming in and just taking everything from right underneath you? Try to go back many, many, many years ago, do you remember going off to kindergarten on the first day of school, ever? Emotions flying through everyone, mom, dad, grandparents, and especially you. Worrying about will I like my teacher or will my best friend be in my class? These all seem like fairly large problems at the time,

Relating to politics and various researches and how they connect with the human mind that is a free, irrational agent. Targeting the American people and more specifically the users of the internet. The author gets into discussing the question of why conspiracy theories are prevalent and some reasoning behind it, “There are nearly as many explanations of conspiracy theories as there are theories themselves, but some patterns do appear again and again.” The author informs the audience on their beliefs as to why conspiracy theories are accepted by many in a sense of wanting to protect the reader. Giving the gist behind conspiracy theories, but it also is an opportunity to go on and further explain to people his reasoning with a helpful sense. Which makes the article credible through his use of studies from advanced groups to back up his argument and statements, “By significant margins, those who tested high on the need to be special or were primed to feel that way by writing the essay were also more inclined to believe in various conspiracy theories.” It provides the reader with understanding how on a psychological level these theories are easy to believe. It aids in answering why people believe in these theories while giving us another viewpoint too. Through the use of studies it can

Fear and Paranoia are caused by the common feeling that had been part of every living thing’s lifestyle. The more an individual hold back there feeing, the more they get paranoid. Fear and paranoia both are the result of same feeling that interprets as frightening. The main difference between paranoia and fear is that paranoia is a higher level of anxiety which can lead to life threatening situation.

Paranoid Schizophrenia is the type of mental illness where the patient loses touch with reality. Patients experience delusions, or the belief in things that aren 't real, or don 't have any basis in reality. In other words, the patient often experiences illogical, unrealistic, and apparently meaningless thoughts and imaginings. Symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia greatly affect the patient 's personality and cognition. These symptoms include: anger; the patient may become "irrationally angry, yelling and cursing" (Kinros, Reichenberg & Frangou, 2010) for no apparent reason. Violence is another symptom, which may result from the patient 's irrational anger. Paranoid Schizophrenics can become violent with anyone, family, friends, or stranger. When the patient experiences anger, he does not differentiate between who is a family, friend, or stranger; he is violent with whomever he is angry at. Another symptom is auditory hallucinations; this is where the patient hears voices. These voices may tell the patient

“By uniting us against a common enemy, fear also brings humans together. It has a preserve yet delicious binding quality. It's for this reason that we love to spread fearful rumors, sometimes blowing them out of all proportion just to heighten the sense of danger." (33. Brandwashed)