paranoianoun
uk/ˌpær.əˈnɔɪ.ə/us/ˌper.əˈnɔɪ.ə/[ C or U ] an extreme and unreasonable feeling that other people do not like you or are going to harm or criticize you:
There's a lot of paranoia about crime at the moment.
[ U ] specialized psychology Someone who has paranoia has unreasonable false beliefs as a part of another mental illness, for example schizophrenia.
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Mental & psychiatric disorders
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- eating disorder
- learning difficulties
- male menopause
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- persecution complex
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- sad
- schizophrenia
- schizophrenic
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- Stockholm syndrome
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