Paranoid Personality Disorder, Causes, Signs and Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment.

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction
1:20 Causes of Paranoid personality disorder
1:42 Symptoms of Paranoid personality disorder
2:30 Diagnosis of Paranoid personality disorder
3:02 Treatment of Paranoid personality disorder

Paranoid personality disorder (PPD) is a mental illness characterized by paranoid delusions, and a pervasive, long-standing suspiciousness and generalized mistrust of others. People with this personality disorder may be hypersensitive, easily insulted, and habitually relate to the world by vigilant scanning of the environment for clues or suggestions that may validate their fears or biases. They are eager observers. They think they are in danger and look for signs and threats of that danger, potentially not appreciating other interpretations or evidence.[2]

They tend to be guarded and suspicious and have quite constricted emotional lives. Their reduced capacity for meaningful emotional involvement and the general pattern of isolated withdrawal often lend a quality of schizoid isolation to their life experience.[3][verification needed] People with PPD may have a tendency to bear grudges, suspiciousness, tendency to interpret others' actions as hostile, persistent tendency to self-reference, or a tenacious sense of personal right.[4] Patients with this disorder can also have significant comorbidity with other personality disorders, such as schizotypal, schizoid, narcissistic, avoidant and borderline. A genetic contribution to paranoid traits and a possible genetic link between this personality disorder and schizophrenia exist. A large long-term Norwegian twin study found paranoid personality disorder to be modestly heritable and to share a portion of its genetic and environmental risk factors with the other cluster A personality disorders, schizoid and schizotypal.[5]

Psychosocial theories implicate projection of negative internal feelings and parental modeling.[1] Cognitive theorists believe the disorder to be a result of an underlying belief that other people are unfriendly in combination with a lack of self-awareness.[6] The World Health Organization's ICD-10 lists paranoid personality disorder under (F60.0). It is a requirement of ICD-10 that a diagnosis of any specific personality disorder also satisfies a set of general personality disorder criteria. It is also pointed out that for different cultures it may be necessary to develop specific sets of criteria with regard to social norms, rules and other obligations.[7]

PPD is characterized by at least three of the following symptoms:

excessive sensitivity to setbacks and rebuffs;
tendency to bear grudges persistently (i.e. refusal to forgive insults and injuries or slights);
suspiciousness and a pervasive tendency to distort experience by misconstruing the neutral or friendly actions of others as hostile or contemptuous;
a combative and tenacious sense of self-righteousness out of keeping with the actual situation;
recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding sexual fidelity of spouse or sexual partner;
tendency to experience excessive self-aggrandizing, manifest in a persistent self-referential attitude;
preoccupation with unsubstantiated "conspiratorial" explanations of events both immediate to the patient and in the world at large.

Includes: expansive paranoid, fanatic, querulant and sensitive paranoid personality disorder.

Excludes: delusional disorder and schizophrenia.

[slap_A_flamingo]

It's horrible. I've been with my partner for 12 years and there's times I question things with her. The anger is a nightmare. I don't show it so it stews inside but it always gives me really bad head aches. Got to admit for me, the grudge bit is so true. I find it so hard to let things go.

[sueellengrove]

The narrator is very soothing while also sounding knowledgeable of the topic.

[raylee]

I am 17, around 6 months ago I started experiencing all of these things. To be fair, I have always kind of had some of these symptoms (even when I was a kid), but it was manageable and only came out during certain situations. Now they are worse, intense. It’s a feeling I can’t even describe, I know my delusions are unreasonable…but at the same time they seem so true and real. I was diagnosed by my psychiatrist 2 weeks ago.

I go through episodes where the paranoia gets to me, but then I kind of snap out of it.

It has undoubtedly affected my relationship with people, like between my friends or my boyfriend. I feel so horrible because of this and I do not know what to do. I have come clean about this to my boyfriend and he is supportive, trying to get me help and ease my mind as much as he is able to. I don’t want to be controlling, hostile, or at times delusional. Having this is a living hell and I wouldn’t wish it upon anyone.

I would like to mention that I already have Social Anxiety and OCD, so I think this definitely stems from that.

[Force_Wielder]

My wife has paranoia delusions, not sure if the same thing. But our relationship is terrible. She thinks nothing is wrong with her so getting her treated seems impossible. We have 2 daughters so I feel like I am stuck with her for now.

[tuningtunetuningtuningfunny]

How can one be sure if one is ''just'' paranoid or if people really do dislike and taunt you for obviously having issues? I feel like I'm always waiting to be laughed at and mocked any time I go grocery shopping. And yes I got this diagnosis and no I don't trust my psychologist but I think the diagnosis is correct.

[sarithasingh]

Simple, straight and Direct to the point.... excellent 👏👏

[brdn-official]

I don't know if this is PPD but I always look round at people who might be looking at me, and when I do see someone looking at me, I immediately look away and start to think they're now talking about me negatively and I'll get all worked up thinking they're pointing out my flaws.

[perlin]

My friend showed me the middle of this video talking about it's symptoms. For some fucking reason I find it R E L A T A B L E.

[Wasp]

it's not hard to become paranoid if you were raised by narcissists.

[margrawevell]

Preparing for an academic presentation on the paranoid personality disorder, any chance you could share the what application you used to create the illustrations of the behaviours?

[iluvsubliminals]

I swear, my mom must have this! She expressed all of the signs.

[Liu]

If the symptoms are more intense during pre menstrual part of the cycle, or if they only happen towards people who are/were close to but you are more distant currently, is it still paranoia personality disorder? Or is it something else?

[pepsi_colax]

Wow...thirteen and discovered paranoid personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, depression, ocd and others...

[mikesmith]

I'm not paranoid I just deal with untrustworthy people who act narcissistic.

[shreyadatta]

Thnks for this vidio...good explanation...

[BarZENT_JaYY]

They just put LTD PPD on my check after like being here 2 years I feel so embarrassed but I love it

[elpidiogam]

How long will it be treated for having this personality discorder?

[drr]

Its not just waving to a friend its no having friends anymore or family and still getting accused because you picked your head up and someone walked by

[Ksl]

i am extremely delusional and lost my job too, undergoing treatment

[wafflesthearttoad]

I’ve been holding a grudge since kindergarten.