Paranoia
Psychiatric Disorder
Steve McQueen's secret life...her and filed for divorce. His friend actor James Coburn said: Perhaps because Steve had been abused all his life he suffered from acute paranoia. If everything was going right he felt something was wrong. If there was no trouble he had to... In this article: Steve McQueen, Neile Adams, Paul Newman, Henry Hathaway, James Coburn, Hollywood, and US Marines |
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New York Post | 4 days ago
Style trial for court Jester
...and Alhovsky showed him the Web site where he bought it. Alhovsky said the incident has left him suffering from depression and paranoia. He also said he was banned from the park for a year, cutting him off from his sole source of...
In this article: Charcoal and Depression
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Arizona Daily Star | 7 days ago
Witness describes seeing his friend fatally shot
...the shooting, he was legally blind, using crack cocaine, suffered from mental illness, had visual and auditory hallucinations, suffered from paranoia and wasn't taking his medications that night. Clearly frustrated by Berry's questions, Jones...
In this article: Cross-examination, Crack cocaine, and Hallucination
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True/Slant | 7 days ago
The Return of the Paranoid Style in American Politics
I must confess to the fact that I've never read Richard Hofstadter's classic work, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, cover to cover. However, I feel like I've read enough to know that, were he alive, Hofstadter would probably be...
In this article: Richard Hofstadter, God, Rick Perry, Barack Obama, Glen Beck, Paranoid, Texas, United Airlines Flight 93, and The Paranoid Style in American Politics
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Daily Mail | November 12, 2009
People who label cannabis harmless are 'simple', says judge in veiled attack on Professor David Nutt
...who claim cannabis is harmless as 'simple' after hearing how a man brandished a pistol in public while suffering drug-induced paranoia. In a veiled criticism of Professor David Nutt, the Government's sacked chief drugs adviser, Judge...
In this article: Cannabis, Alan Johnson, Psychosis, and John Marsden
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New Kerala | November 12, 2009
Leona Lewis refuses to step up security despite crazed fan attack
...punched in the head at a book signing in London on October 14. The man accused of leaving her badly bruised was said to be suffering from paranoia and delusions of grandeur. But the 24-year-old refused to step up her security, saying the...
In this article: Leona Lewis, Beyonce, London, and Delusion
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news-record | November 06, 2009
Some fear vaccines more than flu viruses
...skeptics such as Rush Limbaugh , say they don't trust the vaccine and don't want a shot. The aversion raises a thorny question: Is flu-shot paranoia spreading faster than the illness itself? Keith McCrary, associate director of UNCG's...
In this article: H1N1, World War II, Guilford County, and Michigan
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Wales Online | November 05, 2009
Dementia patients cared for by mentally ill nurse
...not insubstantial history of mental health problems having been diagnosed as a bipolar sufferer when she was 19. " The judge said paranoia had also been diagnosed in the nurse before adding there were further details he would not "bring to...
In this article: Dementia and South Wales
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Reuters | November 04, 2009
Inferno a definitive look at obsessive director
...to make a more subjective and experimental film than anything he had attempted previously. "Inferno" was to be a study of jealousy and paranoia, with sequences attempting to get inside the troubled mind of his hero, played by Serge Reggiani.
In this article: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Romy Schneider, Serge Reggiani, Wages of Fear, Le Corbeau, New York Film Festival, La Verite, and Federico Fellini
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washingtonpost.com | November 04, 2009
Sneezes spread paranoia
During these days of swine flu fears, common sneezes and coughs are spreading more than just colds and the flu. They're spreading paranoia, according to new research. University of Michigan psychologist Spike Lee and colleagues decided to...
In this article: Cough, FLU, University of Michigan, Spike Lee, and U.S.
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Wonkette | November 03, 2009
Hoffman Supporters Extremely Worried About ACORN Interference
...affiliated with Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project. All worried that ACORN was going to show up in the district, or even at the Biden event-a paranoia that led to some minor awkwardness when an African-American Hoffman worker walked by. "This...
In this article: Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck
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Paranoia is a thought process characterized by excessive anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs concerning a perceived threat towards oneself. In the original Greek, παράνοια (paranoia) simply means madness (para = outside; nous = mind). Historically, this characterization was used to describe any delusional state.
Sometimes in common usage, the term paranoia is misused to describe a phobia. For example, a person may not want to fly out of fear the plane may crash. This does not in itself indicate paranoia, but rather a phobia. The lack of blame in this case usually points to the latter. An example of paranoia, however, would be fear that while watching an American Football game, the team huddle was talking about the person affected. An important feature of paranoid thinking is its centrality: that the paranoid person perceives themselves as central figures in an experienced scenario which may be either dangerous (persecutory) or self-exalting (grandiose) and interprets events which have no reference to them in reality as directed at or about them.
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