Paranoia

Who has never avoided a crack in the sidewalk, fearful of breaking their mother’s back, or checked under the bed for monsters? These are two common instances of paranoia. These examples are docile in comparison to severe paranoia, which is recognized today as a disorder. Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD) is defined by Psychology Today as, “A thought process believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of delusion and irrationality” (2017). This disorder surfaces from distrusting and having suspicions of others, affecting the patient’s social and personal life immensely. Paranoia usually begins in early adulthood and studies have shown that it is most common in males (Cleveland Clinic, 2017). If doctors at that time would’ve properly examined the…

are pulled into her thoughts again, “Everyone thinks its so funny: and she pulled her coat tighter around her, so that only the ruffle around the bottom of the print dress was showing.” As her interrogations of possible witnesses proceed we discover that she has no problem badgering people with questions it is only when they show annoyance and start questioning her that she becomes defensive and anxious. “The unnamed protagonist senses the mocking air of the people who talk to her. They change…

In our world it is common to complain about present complications and center our attention on the undesirable events that occur in our lives. The majority of us do not realize that although certain periods of our diminutive lifetime can be difficult to endure, we grow stronger through the harsh trials. In my perspective, problems such as bullying, paranoia, and death are the leading causes of difficult trials in my life, and overcoming them took time and understanding. The early stages of my…

Jane’s paranoia manifests itself when she begins imagining ‘creeping women’ everywhere she looked. “The front pattern does move—and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it! Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and something only one, and she crawls around, and her crawling shakes it all over” (654). Jane’s obsession (more on this later) with the wallpaper causes her to hallucinate and envision that the wallpaper has some sort of agency. Jane’s delusions take hold and she begins…

there are thousands of defined phobias that are categorized by finely nuanced combinations of extraneous origins. There are no limits to the variety of external factors that can be individually interpreted as cause for alarm. The exaggerated nature of fears create expansive disconnects between reality and perception. Based on the human breadth for unique experience, a pronounced absurdity is facilitated among some of the more obscure psychological aversions. Impressionable youth and susceptible…

Analysis of: Loneliness Over Time: The Crucial Role of Social Anxiety This article studied the mental health symptoms of paranoia and social anxiety and their contribution to loneliness. Loneliness is said to be an emotional state that is characterized by subjective perceptions of social isolation and can be seen as a marker that one’s relationships may be inadequate or failing to meet expectations (Heinrich and Gullone, 2006). The research from population-based studies notes a higher…

She feels the most paranoid and cautious, even “in the corner of [her own] room”. She tells herself there is “a hairnet bunched in on itself like a dead spider and nothing in the far corner of the room, a brass fruit bowl with nothing but you can’t keep from looking at it forever”. This quote establishes a sense of paranoia and delusion that there is no monster in the corner and that the girl is not scared, by applying the use of a simile. She compares a hairnet, which is harmless, to a dead…

Sergei’s paranoia is his main attribute that forms his other traits and persona. It leads to his hostility as too protect himself because of his belief that no one would want to create a ny sort of relationship with him without an ulterior motive. This results in him having no social relationships, making him lonely. This trait is emphasized by the comparison of the other character in this story, Yonatan. Yonatan’s section of the story is filled with short run on sentences, commas, and…

Interestingly enough Peter Langman, a psychologist developed characteristics for clearer understanding the mind-set of school shooters into three class typologies. The traumatized shooter as Dr. Langman describes, usually come from broken homes where they (the shooter) was either a victim of physical or sexual abuse or worse both. Also, the parents may be victims of substance abuse or have prior criminal history as he elaborates in his article, Rampage School Shooters: A Typology. The next…

“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here” Marianne Williamson. The fear of the world didn't just come out of nowhere, fear came from a source and the source of the fear came from the people. Author; Suzanne Collins takes on this heavy topic that “fear is learned” in her book The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a book that foreplays a government that picks kids age 12-18 from 12 districts and sends them to an arena to kill each other. Collins originally wrote the book to…