Why do people get paranoid?

Answer 1

Paranoid
Paranoid personality disorder is characterized by a distrust of others and a constant suspicion that people around you have sinister motives. People with this disorder tend to have excessive trust in their own knowledge and abilities and usually avoid close relationships with others. They search for hidden meanings in everything and read hostile intentions into the actions of others. They are quick to challenge the loyalties of friends and loved ones and often appear cold and distant to others. They usually shift blame to others and tend to carry long grudges.

Why is it that so many "average" people in the USA are also paranoid?

VHeadline.com commentarist Oscar Heck writes: What is wrong with political (and other) leaders in the USA? Why are they so paranoid? Why is it that so many "average" people in the USA are also paranoid?

The US congress has approved a Connie Mack-sponsored bill/amendment to start a (US government-run) television/radio station aimed at countering Chavez and Telesur, Venezuela's new joint-venture television station which is aimed at providing people throughout Latin America with news and views about Latin American and the world from the point of view of Latin Americans.

CNN in Spanish, the only widely broadcast news and views program I know of - and I think it is the only one which is broadcast throughout (all of) Latin America -- is controlled by the North, the USA. Everyone will agree with me on at least one point: CNN in Spanish's format, approach, its news, its views and its content are clearly North American in nature and its slant is obviously based on the way in which the USA sees and understands life.

However, Latin Americans and North Americans are generally oceans apart in mentality, culture and expression. Apart from the roughly 20% wealthy mid-to-upper class Latin Americans, Latin Americans (in general) have little in common with the USA, with its "values," with its language or with its modus operandi.

If this is the case, which it obviously is, why then would Latin Americans be interested in CNN (or the newly proposed anti-Chavez, US-government-run TV/Radio station)?

The fact is, most Latin Americans are not interested in the likes of CNN. In a general sense, the only Latin Americans who "appreciate" CNN's USA-controlled disinformation are the mostly USA-loving mid-to-upper classes.

This said, what really ticks me off is the fact that the US government is the one which is involved in this new effort to try to control the Latin American airwaves ... in order to hide the truth ... truths such as how the USA-promoted "Free Trade" has brought mass destitution to the Mexican people, mass profits to multi-nationals and massive manufacturing job losses in the USA.

There are many more truths which the US government wants to cover up by controlling the airwaves.

They know that with few exceptions Telesur will be watched throughout all of Latin America by millions of people from the poorer 80% majority while CNN will remain the "news" source for the 20% wealthy minority. The more people watch and listen to Telesur, the more educated they will become with respect to reality. The more educated people become, the less they will allow themselves to be manipulated by the likes of the US government and its local cronies. The less people allow themselves to be controlled by US propaganda, the more they will reject any form of US intervention throughout Latin America.

The US government knows this.

Paranoia is an excessive anxiety or fear concerning one's own well-being which is considered irrational and excessive, perhaps to the point of being a psychosis. This typically includes persecutory beliefs concerning a likely threat, or a belief in a conspiracy theory. In the original Greek, παράνοια (paranoia) means simply madness (para = outside; nous = mind) and it is this use which was traditionally used in psychiatry to describe any delusional state. However, the exact use of the term has changed over time in medicine, and because of this, modern psychiatric usage may vary.

Answer 2

Paranoid schizophrenia sufferers endure constant feelings of being watched, followed and persecuted. Paranoid schizophrenia may be more common in men. Victims of paranoid schizophrenia develop grandiose delusions associated with protecting themselves from the perceived plot. Paranoid schizophrenia usually appears initially between the ages of 15 and 34. There is no cure for paranoid schizophrenia, however paranoid schizophrenia can be medically controlled. Severe attacks of paranoid schizophrenia may require hospitalization.
Causes of paranoid schizophrenia are still debatable. Heredity does play a part in paranoid schizophrenia, and although stress is NOT a factor in paranoid schizophrenia it certainly exacerbates the symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia

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Answer 3

People get insecure feelings, and then take these feelings too far and become paranoid about it. It just happens. Past experiences might do it, too. My girlfriend thought I was goin to dump her last night because I told her I had to get off the phone. She thought i was mad at her for some strange reason. She was paranoid that I would dump her. Well, she is paranoid, 'cause she asks questions like that. She just loves me a lot and doesn't want to lose me, so much that she's paranoid about me dumping her. Taking feelings too far can make one paraniod. (I hope this helped, and that it wasn't too long).

Answer 4

Typically a mental disorder...
You can be paranoid about something in particular and this is normal...but when your life revolves around "everyone out to get you", you need to see a doctor.

There are medicines to control this disorder, typically paranoid schizophrenia or related schizophrenics.

Answer 5

it would depend on the level of paranoia and how irrational it is, a certain level of paranoia is "normal" eg if you know a partner is a flirt bieng paranoid they might have an affair is not unreasonable bieng paranoid a partner with no history of this type of behavior might not be reasonable

Answer 6

paranoid=self persavation

paranoia is actually a survival skill

diag paranoid schizoid

Answer 7

Because they think someone is out to get them. Something has happened in their lifetime to make them feel like this. Usually insecurities and a misuse of trust.

Answer 8

Fear. Fear immobilizes many people, on different levels. But mostly the fear that initiates paranoia is a fear of oneself. The opposite of fear is trust. It is difficult to trust yourself when you don't love yourself. The realization that you are a beautiful soul, capable of anything in the world... is a healthy start toward combating the fear.

Answer 9

Not in control. Not eating or drinking right; bad habits and genetics. Changes in the Earths magnetic field ? hmmmm.

Answer 10

Paranoia- a higher state of mental awareness.
The myth that it is a mental illness is a secret plot made up by your enemies to undermine your social efforts and cast dispersions on you !