The term paranoid can be applied to symptoms, syndromes or personality types, which range on a continuum from mild to severe. The most common delusion experienced by individuals with paranoid disorders is delusion of persecution and reference.
Paranoid symptoms are overvalued ideas or delusions which are most commonly persecutory, but not always so. The most important symptom of paranoid disorders is the presence of suspiciousness, persecutory delusion, emotional detachment, aloofness and has touch with reality.
Enduring patterns of personality characterized by mistrust and suspiciousness of people in general. It may include anger, hostility or irritability.
Paranoid persons may be violent of they believe they are threatened.
What is paranoid?
The Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus: Ancient Egypt's Oldest Medical Text
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The *Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus*, also called the Kahun Medical Papyrus,
stands as the earliest known medical text in Egyptian history, dating to
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