Paranoia is an unfounded or exaggerated distrust of others, sometimes reaching delusional proportions. Paranoid individuals constantly suspect the motives of those around them, and believe that certain individuals, or people in general, are "out to get...

A clinical construct referring to a psychological state characterized by excessive self-reference. In day-to-day use the term is increasingly restricted in meaning to the harbouring of persecutory ideas or DELUSION, but technically may include any...

Paranoia is a disturbed thought process characterized by excessive anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs concerning a perceived threat. In the original Greek,...

Having chided Steve Minarik for a ridiculous attack on the Drum Major Institute, I can't avoid mocking Drum Major's response as well. Andrea Batista Schlesinger, who (not Freddy Ferrer) actually runs Drum Major, posted her response to Minarik on the Hollywood liberal organ Huffington Post,...

Even if the city is installing 500 new cameras, the NYPD doesn't have the ability to constantly monitor the surveillance footage. So, how useful is it? It's all about deterrence--i.e., instilling a fear of Big Brother. (The New York Times) In the same vein,...

Most inventors know not to blab about their ideas freely. But their efforts to stop others from stealing their brainchild can work against them. "Inventors need to stop the paranoia," said Allen Oelschlaeger, a partner at Telaric Ideas, a consulting firm in Mequon, Wis. "A...

New findings on marijuana's damaging effect on the brain show the drug triggers temporary psychotic symptoms in some people, including hallucinations and paranoid delusions, doctors say.British doctors took brain scans of 15 healthy volunteers given small doses of two of the active ingredients of cannabis,...

Paranoia is explained in 4 different paragraph styles: Expository, Descriptive, Persuasive and Narrative.