The Many Varieties of Paranoia

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<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/health/psychology/01BEHA.html>

Self-Protection or Delusion? The Many Varieties of
Paranoia
By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D.

[...]  The most common cause of paranoia is also the
least understood by the public, schizophrenia. A
chronic mental illness that is generally believed to
affect 1 percent of Americans, schizophrenia is
characterized by delusions, often paranoid in nature;
hallucinations; and so-called negative symptoms that
include social withdrawal and apathy. [...]

Sure, paranoid people, like the rest of us, do
occasionally have enemies. But if these imaging
studies are replicated, the results will mean that the
real enemies of paranoid people are their own brains.






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