2006-12-29 07:38:23 · 8 answers · asked by pooja 2 in Health ➔ Mental Health
something in psychiatry to do wit fear
2006-12-30 04:48:13 · answer #1 · answered by poison_ivy_sam 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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, ÏαÏάνοια (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.
2006-12-29 15:50:47 · answer #2 · answered by lmw 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd tell you, but haven't you noticed that they're all talking about us already? It happens wherever you go in Yahoo! Answers. There are all sorts of people around you, making fun of you, planning to hit you with a violation notice. It happens wherever you go on this site. I don't even trust logging out anymore. I have to pull the plugs out of the wall so they can't get to me. Wrapping foil around your head keeps out the radio waves, too. They can't read your mind through the foil. Draw the shades, too. They're always watching. Best thing is to pretend you don't notice them and lock the doors. If they think you're on to them, they might do something.
2006-12-29 15:53:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you think that everyone is thinking about you all the time or is out to get you....then you are paranoid. Now, if you add crazy things like covering your roof with aluminum foil to keep the spy satellites from watching you...then you are a paranoid schizophrenic.
2006-12-29 15:44:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is an unreasonable and uncontrollable fear of what might or could happen without any reason that it will. It a fear of the unknown and believing that it will happen regardles of the liklihood.
2006-12-29 15:43:19 · answer #5 · answered by MISS-MARY 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is when a person thinks that other people are looking at them constantly
2006-12-29 15:45:59 · answer #6 · answered by ankissable 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you keep thinking things are happening when they actually arent
like you keep thinking your bf is gonna die or something
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2006-12-29 15:40:46 · answer #7 · answered by arthur!!! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is paranoia: AAAAAAHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-12-29 15:46:07 · answer #8 · answered by Rocco J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋