If it has been confirmed that brain equals behaviour, then why don’t we fear our own thought processes? Persons with paranoia disorder are not aware that they are in fear of their own brains, but in some respect fear of oneself and what ones brain can create is exactly what persons with paranoia disorder experience. You feel like everyone is staring at you and or talking about you. You think people are deliberately trying to exclude you or make you feel bad. You believe the government, an organisation or an individual is spying on or following you. The purpose of paranoia is thus to ward off an idea that is incompatible with the ego, by projecting its substance into the external world. Paranoia involves intense anxious or fearful feelings and thoughts often related to persecution, threat or conspiracy. Paranoia occurs in many mental disorders, but is most often present in psychotic disorders. Surveys of several thousands of people in Britain, the United States and elsewhere have found that rates of paranoia are slowly rising, although researchers’ estimates of how many of us have paranoid thoughts varies widely, from 5 percent to 50 percent.

Arjun Julian

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