What is paranoid?

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?

Paranoid schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a psychotic condition characterized by a disturbance in thinking, emotions, volitions and faculties in the present of clear consciousness, which usually leads to social withdrawal.

Schizophrenia is divided into paranoid, disorganized and catatonic subtypes, based on presentation of behaviors and predominance of various symptom clusters.

Paranoid schizophrenia, also called schizophrenia, paranoid type is a sub-type and it is the most common form of schizophrenia.  The patient has false beliefs that somebody or some people are plotting against them or members of their family.

Paranoid was used to identify the type of schizophrenia in which delusion of any kind predominated. It is characterized by the following features:
*Delusions of persecution
*Delusions of jealousy
*Delusion of grandiosity
*Hallucinatory
*Disturbance of effect

The paranoid schizophrenia is thought to have a good outcome relative to other types. This may reflect a more benign from of illness or unique neurobiology and etiology.
Paranoid schizophrenia