Paranoia and Xenophobia: How Hostile Suspicion Develops, Persists, and Impacts Mental Health Functioning
Paranoia is a mental state characterized by persistent or recurrent beliefs that others intend harm, deception, or unfair treatment, even when there is limited or no evidence supporting those convictions. In everyday language it overlaps with “suspiciousness,” but clinically it is closer to a spectrum that can range from transient suspicious interpretations to sustained persecutory… Read More »