Other names: paranoia

The word paranoia comes from the Greek and means foolish or crazy. Paranoia means touchiness,frequent suspicion and affective misrepresenting some facts. Paranoid people have something in nature (paranoid personality disorder), or they are becoming in certain diseases (Alzheimer’s disease, alcohol addiction – personality changes Dementia). Are suspicious, jealous, still frowning and looking at all the evil around it becomes their enemy. Treatment paranoia is difficult, if not impossible. In Alzheimer’s disease, serves a variety of drugs that support nerve cells and their nutrition.

Severe paranoia with delusions and hallucinations (auditory, visual, olfactory), patients may suffer from schizophrenia. They feel that someone is chasing that must run from the secret police service etc. Young people can blame your parents or friends that are against them, they fear from them to take food that needs to be poisoned. Other times, schizophrenics have a heroic delusion, they are confident that eg. Avoiding World War III because of uncovered Soviet base in Madagascar. It’s hard to talk to them these myths and patients require constant supervision and care.

Treatment of schizophrenia (and other medical procedures) is in the hands of psychiatrists.