The following questions are related to ‘Paranoia’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
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Q: What do you call a person that is constantly thinking that you took something from them. Is it a disorder? A: There’s not a lot of information in your question. Took what — money, lawnmower, food, drugs, etc.? What age is the individual? What’s your relationship to them? Have you taken something from them [...]
Q: I am a third year college Mass Communication student in the Phillippines and am doing an Investigative research on exorcism. Part of this is to deeply explore “possession” as its main root. For my questions, is possession merely a case of psychological illness? Is it all about a person’s mental state and there is [...]
Q: At 27, my sister has graduated college and has her degree. She doesn’t have and will not get a job. She continues to wait to be contacted by a company she has an application in with. She is very upset with someone there saying that while they worked together (when my sister was an [...]
Q: Um… I don’t quite know how to put this… I’ve been a pretty messed up person throughout my life. I’ve been in and out of hospitals and been through more therapists than I can remember. I want to know. I hear things sometimes, when it’s really quiet… I see things as well…and not really [...]
Q: My mom has had depression, with psychotic symptoms for 11 years or so. She becomes delusional and thinks that our relatives are doing things to her that lead her to start thinking constantly. She seems to only confide in me about her thoughts but only on my persistent questioning of what kind of thoughts [...]
Q: My husband has an ex-wife who leads a secret life. We don’t care what she does, except the son is now behaving like her. She has the son involved tightly in her life. He refers to himself as “we”. Like, “we decided…”. He is 21. When asked about who we is — it is [...]
Q: Some time ago I was diagnosed with Paranoid Personality Disorder (the primary characteristic being a psychotic sense of thought projection). I’ve had thoughts of a certain person poisoning the food, etc. (because I feel I perceive their true motive). On occasion, I’ve felt as Jim Carrey would on ‘The Truman Show’ — that my [...]
