2006-11-01 13:57:50 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
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.
2006-11-01 13:59:59 · answer #1 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paranoia is an excessive anxiety or fear concerning one's own well-being
2006-11-01 14:05:10 · answer #2 · answered by purple 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When your paranoid, it's when you freak out easily or think that something will happen because it's always on your mind and you take all these precautions to avoid it. Ex: If a person is walking down the street and keeps turning around because they think someone is stalking them then they are paranoid.
2006-11-01 14:08:23 · answer #3 · answered by Kendall S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
paranoia is the irrational fear that people are out to get you. It is only paranoia if people are not really out to get you but you think they are.
2006-11-01 13:59:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
par‧a‧noi‧a /ˌpærəˈnɔɪə/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[par-uh-noi-uh] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. Psychiatry. a mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions and the projection of personal conflicts, which are ascribed to the supposed hostility of others, sometimes progressing to disturbances of consciousness and aggressive acts believed to be performed in self-defense or as a mission.
2. baseless or excessive suspicion of the motives of others.
2006-11-01 14:00:23 · answer #5 · answered by voidedius 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A paranoid person may feel anything people who are very afraid can feel.
For instance, the person's heart may race or feel like it will beat out of the person's chest.
The person's breathing may get faster or the reverse; it may get slow and shallow.
The person's mind may race, or it may freeze and go totally blank.
The person's eyes may dart, or they may avert anything which moves.
2006-11-01 17:23:51 · answer #6 · answered by Meemee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when your paranoid. like you think something is wrong all the time or there's something suspicious about everything and a lot of stuff scares you because you just have a fear of it even if it's unreal.
2006-11-01 14:06:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is fear that someone is out to get you or you think something is wrong when it is not.
2006-11-01 14:00:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you think everyone is against you,out to get you,or that theres something wrong when there probably isnt!y??
2006-11-01 13:59:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
fear
2006-11-01 13:59:14 · answer #10 · answered by J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋