{"id":2156,"date":"2021-04-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:38:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:38:56","slug":"youre-not-paranoid-its-really-happening-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2021\/04\/26\/youre-not-paranoid-its-really-happening-2\/","title":{"rendered":"You’re Not Paranoid, It’s Really Happening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Paranoia is an unfounded or exaggerated distrust of others, sometimes reaching delusional proportions. The word comes from the Greek word paranous<\/em> “distracted”, ultimately from para-<\/em> “irregular” + nous<\/em> “mind”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a popular psychiatric designation, occurring in the fraudulent Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders<\/em><\/a> (DSM) as “Paranoid personality disorder”. As “paranoid schizophrenic” it can also come under one of the several DSM headings related to schizophrenia<\/a>, meaning “delusions of persecution”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s also the subject of various jokes such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The mental-disease-of-the-month club is being disbanded because during paranoia month all the members moved and left no forwarding address.”
“What does a paranoid have in common with the all-knowing master of time space and dimension that secretly controls all of our lives? \u2026 Right, like you don’t know.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is it really?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Paranoia is a dramatization, which is an irrational set of thoughts and actions coming about from the restimulation of past moments of pain and unconsciousness, often containing a phrase such as “You’re all against me.” Some drugs in particular can restimulate this type of behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Various Other Restimulants of Paranoia<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Newer antidepressants such as Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) may have a side effect of paranoia. Smoking crack cocaine, marijuana, or taking LSD, methamphetamines or ecstasy (MDMA) can also cause paranoid behavior. The ADHD drugs Adderall, Concerta, Strattera, and Ritalin all have a potential side effect of paranoia. The psychedelic dimethyltryptamine (DMT) has a side effect of paranoia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being bullied may lead to a feeling that people plan to harm you, which can be misconstrued by a psychiatrist as a “mental illness” and considered a psychotic symptom for which psychotropic drugs can be prescribed, some of which then also have more paranoia as a side effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Addressing a person’s difficulties with getting a good night’s sleep, or with getting proper nutrition, may lead to improvements in psychotic symptoms such as paranoia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hypothyroidism, an insufficient production of thyroid hormone, can lead to paranoia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A deficiency of vitamin B12 or folic acid (vitamin B9) can produce paranoia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An allergic response to wheat, corn, cow’s milk, or tobacco can produce paranoia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Undiagnosed and unhandled infections such as pneumonia, urinary tract infection, sepsis, malaria, Legionnaire’s disease, syphilis, typhoid, diphtheria, HIV, rheumatic fever and herpes can all cause such devastating mental symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recommendations<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One can plainly see that the symptom of paranoia has many possible triggers which are unrelated to any so-called psychiatric “mental disorder”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any medical doctor who takes the time to conduct a thorough physical examination of a person exhibiting signs of what a psychiatrist calls paranoia can find undiagnosed, untreated physical conditions. Any person labeled as paranoid needs to receive a thorough physical examination by a competent medical\u2014not psychiatric\u2014doctor to first determine what underlying physical condition is causing the manifestation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The use of various psychiatric drugs, since they can themselves trigger a paranoid response, should be specifically avoided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any person falsely diagnosed as paranoid which results in treatment that harms them should file a complaint with the police and professional licensing bodies and have this investigated. They should seek legal advice about filing a civil suit against any offending psychiatrist and his or her hospital, associations and teaching institutions seeking compensation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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