2006-07-14 04:24:06 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
NO. Reality is reality and cannot be magnified. If it is reality, it is what it is! Just because one sees the moon through a telescope, hear the heart through a stethescope, see a cell through a microscpoe, does not cause the reality of the object to change. Ones perspective can minimize or magnify any situation, event, people, concepts,or even objects.
For instance, if one should 20 years later, revisit the playground, yard, or room known when one was a child of 7, the perspective of the sizes change by vitue of height of the individual. One might not experience the apprehension at the top of the stairs at older age as he would a younger age. The perspective of crossing a road could trigger paranoia based on health, vision, height, personal experience, observation, or hearsay.
One persons paranoia is another's caution. Just because one is paranoid does not mean that something is not right or that someting is right, they are not after you or after you,that there is not a conspiracy taking place or not..
The word paranoia is thrown around carelessly since the 1970's.
I like the sound of the word, I think it's the "oi" dipthong.
We often forget the words Soviet Primer Bresnev, "Trust then Verify."
We also forget the quote, "that the best trick that the devil has ever played and is playing on Humans, is to convince the Humans that there is no devil!"
2006-07-14 05:22:01 · answer #1 · answered by LeBlanc 6 · 7⤊ 0⤋
It's fun to joke about paranoia, or play around with the concept. We all get a little paranoid at one time or another. But real paranoia is an illness, of course, and a particularly nasty one at that.
Check out the link below for a clinical description of Paranoid Personality Disorder, which is one of the milder forms of paranoia (compared to, say, paranoid schizophrenia).
2006-07-14 04:39:56 · answer #2 · answered by Jim R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paranoia is awareness magnified, to almost excruciating levels
2006-07-14 04:27:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paranoia nine times out of ten has nothing to do with reality.
2006-07-14 04:41:36 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe it is more like fear magnified. It could also be a chemical imbalance in the brain.
2006-07-14 04:48:55 · answer #5 · answered by Metacoma 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must be REALLY paranoid! Paranoia, by definition, is not real. You are assuming something to be real that isn't the case. If it was real you wouldn't be paranoid, you were simply be correct.
2006-07-14 04:28:46 · answer #6 · answered by Mustard Jones 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think so. Lisa, if I was paranoid, I wouldn't tell a f'n soul. Be careful. They lock you up for that.
2006-07-14 04:45:00 · answer #7 · answered by The "Spence" 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possibly. You'd have to ask someone else about me, though!
2006-07-14 04:28:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont think so, its just yr own thoughts and imagination getting abit carried away with itself! :)
2006-07-14 04:45:47 · answer #9 · answered by missilibi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i hope your not talking about me
lol
2006-07-14 04:27:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋