People can have delusions {paranoia}| {paranoid state} of grandeur and/or persecution.
symptoms
They are suspicious, are highly sensitive, project fears, believe that their beliefs are correct and justified, and do not believe that they are ill. They attack people that they think persecute them, quarrel with neighbors, accuse people of trespassing, or accuse spouses of infidelity.
factors
Paranoics have no intellectual deficits, hallucinations, emotional withdrawal, or disrupted syntax.
causes
Paranoia is a disorder of self-esteem and stress. Narcissistic self-overestimation is a typical reaction to humiliation during infancy and childhood. Paranoic ideas and anxieties are impulse projections.
treatment
Paranoia is not treatable now.
comparisons
Artists, and political and religious leaders, can mimic paranoia.
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