What are Paranoid Delusions (Persecutory Delusions)?

This video describes paranoid delusions, which are sometimes referred to as persecutory delusions. Paranoid delusions are a symptom of a few mental health disorders including schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. A delusion is a strongly held belief that is clearly false, but that is not the entirety of the definition. A number of people that do not have schizophrenia or another disorder with delusions, have strongly held beliefs that are false. In order for a strongly held belief to qualify as a delusion, it would also have to be not understandable in the context of one's educational, cultural, and social background.

[NoOne-pxvz]

A year ago, i got backstabbed, and now i overthink everything, and i believe that all my friends are plotting to get me, i also daydream too much, even though it doesn't affect my social life, but it gives me anxiety, and staying alone makes me feel awful, whenever i stay alone, my mind starts to overthink about anything, even a simple sentence, my mind makes different explanations about it.

[BeingBetter]

I have had persecution delusions with bipolar disorder. I was completely out of my mind. I was completely healed and no longer have them.

[Coolscarykid]

i'm always afraid to be around police because for some reason I feel like they're after me when I never did anything wrong. On top of that I always feel like i'm being watched or being followed all the time. I'm afraid to be in the house at night by myself because I feel like i'm not alone. I've heard voices since middle school and seen things since 5th grade. Even in public I feel like everyone's staring at me

[jadapotata]

This is such a struggle and hard to live with. Its ruining my relationships with other people. I still question and think the ppl im with everyday is against me, don’t really genuinely care for me as much as it seems, i lash out, and create senarios like its true.

[oddjob]

My daughter is going through this. She is so bad she is also paranoid about her mental health team.
Her brain works on over load.
Its very frustrating because the mental health system in the UK is about as useful as a chocolate fire guard.
She has had the problem for 15 years and has never been given the proper help.
She used to have delusions in our house and she would smash the house up.
All the mental health team would say is call the police.
She is mentally ill not a criminal.
People with mental health problems are probably the most vulnerable in our society but getting the correct help feels like an impossible task.
It just seems to be the case of passing the problem to someone else by all the so called professionals.
I dont know what its like to in the rest of the world but I suspect things are not too good .
I can only comment on the situation in the UK and our system that is supposed to help people who are most vulnerable with mental health issues is not fit for purpose.
My wife and I are still trying to get her the help she really needs. Honestly my wife and I are loosing hope.

[Isildurrrr]

Thank you so much for this video this is literally everything my partner has yet she thinks she’s fine and it’s everyone else the hard part is getting her the help She needs

[awkwardzoltar]

Thanks for detailed comprehensive video, I feel like I should watch this video every time I get paranoid.

[mprplaysguitar]

You talked about delusions in the context of schizophrenia but what about bipolar delusions during mania /hypomania or depression? Have you seen this in patients? I enjoy your channel

[blakeshroyer]

I've never met a paranoid delusional person. I heard of a woman who had a boyfriend who was an ex gov't intelligence worker who ended up beating her up real bad. She tried to tell people her crazy boyfriend was following her and spying on her. Her family had her in probate court to deem her nuts. Very sad situation.

[HH-mhbt]

I recently relised that ive been suffering delusions my whole life, from about age 17 I did accept the fact that I was a really irrationally paranoid person but I would always brush it off as 'anxiety', but times when something would trigger me to get really paranoid things would start to get hazy and stop making sense, no matter how crazy the thing I was paranoid about my brain would still make some sort of connection to make it make sense, like the time I believed my two best friends had hacked in to my phone and were watching my every move for 3 months and eventually I changed my phone and number. Or time I constantly saw someone i had previous conflict with around my college to find out he was never there in the first place. Ive imagined so many situations in my life and come to realise they never happened so many times that its unbelievable and ive never told anyone. I probably will go get some sort of help soon though, i do wanna sit down with a professional and find out what is actually wrong with me, i think maybe bpd since I never been able to have normal relationships with people, plus the constant depression, anxiety and identity issues. Thanks for the great vid tho

[lyricaltraveller]

I have a friend who wanted me to come over to her mobile home to install surveillance camera's inside and out because she was convinced that her neighbor was breaking in to her home. Not thru a door, but coming up thru her floor from under the mobile home. She thinks that they are getting into her refrigerator tampering with her food and so she has a heavy chain with a pad lock on the doors. Recently she started believing that someone was putting gun powder in her carpets to make her sick

[ryandelta]

Could you do a video about maladaptive daydreaming?

[lauracarson]

Let’s just say I’m going through psychosis and watching this video it’s scary as hell what is with the black background the slow talking this is giving me nightmares.

[painoftheheart]

I've been bullied for so ling, I never know is my feelings of everyone turning against me and hating me are just paranoia or valid feelings. I don't know if I am crazy or over sensitive or just very aware of my surroundings. I have been told everything is in my head (thinking my family wants me dead or wants to kill me) but then I have been physically abused by my parents and siblings, most recently just last year my older brother choked me and my entire family just stood and watched.

To being told I am just too sensitive (reacting strongly to tone and pitch and volume, to deconstructing word usage and sentence structure).

To then being told I'm right. As I have explicitly said that certain people hated me only to have that confirmed by others.

I have been diagnosed with Major depression, atypical bipolar and PMDD with suggestions of anxiety and BPD floating by.

Don't know if any of them are accurate, or all wrong or all right. I don't know if I am paranoid or just aware and I don't know how to appropriately respond to any of it which makes me even more distressed. So fuck me I guess.

[qqqhv]

My mom has this. She thinks that when she gave birth to my brother one of the doctors put a chip into her ear and thats why she can hear voices. And now she's trying to get that "chip" out of her ear with clippers 🤢. She has a lot of the symptoms and was even diagnosed by a doctor, but she keeps denying the truth. Now she tells me that the same thing will happen to me that someone will put "a chip" into my ear and those "people" will harass me too. She often did a lot of strange things at home, like sleeping in a bath tub or wearing a pot over her head to protect herself from the "magnetic waves" that activate the chip, she doesn't do it much now. In general she doesn't believe in mental illnesses, which is bad cause I have a lot of symptoms of BPD and I can't tell her cause she won't understand. I tried to tell my dad about it but he didn't believe me and forgot everything I showed him and told.

[ruzzo]

I often walk on the streets like a SENTINEL, looking at every single suspicious thing that is on my vision radius. Because I always think someone will harm or kill me or someone that I'm with, if I'm NOT LOOKING AT MY BACK EVERY 3 SECONDS (Also every door and window).

[Madtcw]

I've just been had by someone who constantly thinks she's being persecuted or victimized. I should have gone with my gut feeling from the start but no I had to rethink it, maybe because I truly needed a friend idk but here's my warning:: Run don't walk away from these people because they suck you into their drama and then turn on you when you least expect it. If you even think just for a second that something isn't quite right, LISTEN TO YOURSELF!!

[saifamu]

Every time I feel like someone is slicing me with a sword, constantly attacking me from behind. I get this feeling 24/7 and it happens everytime when I stand still and look downwards. I have also been suffering from OCD from 3 years.

[anee]

Can you please answer, if a person has paranoid delusions that someone who he had problems in the past with (some kind of conflict, feud or negative event that left him with a trauma) is going to kill them? Of course, there are no valid, realistic reasons to think that. Is that considered some kind of mental ilness or is it posttraumatic stress disorder?

[leolacasse]

the construct of delusional thinking is also perfect cover for counterintelligence harassment.