5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life by Bill Eddy LCSW Esq

Author:Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: TarcherPerigee
Published: 2018-02-05T16:00:00+00:00

Two Flavors of Paranoid HCPs

There seem to be two general types of people with paranoid personality disorder:

Those with only paranoid personality disorder.

Those with paranoid personality disorder and another mental disorder that includes paranoid thinking.

Paranoia (excessive fear or suspicion) is associated with several mental health problems besides paranoid personality disorder. It can present in depression or bipolar disorder, when the person is already interpreting things much more negatively than they actually are. For most people with depression, this paranoia is a passing phase and tends to lift when their depression lifts. For those with bipolar disorder, these negative thoughts may be turned around with medication.

More extreme paranoia can be part of schizophrenia, which causes the person to be totally out of touch with reality, hearing voices (auditory hallucinations) or seeing people who aren’t really there (delusions). Of course, people with schizophrenia are also helped by modern medications so that many of them can live mostly normal lives.

My experience and observations are that people with only these other mental health problems (depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, etc.) generally do not focus on Targets of Blame. Instead, they become upset with themselves more than anyone else. However, if they fall into the second category and also have paranoid personality disorder, they are more likely to target the people around them, which could be anyone, as the following examples will show. Their personality disorders amplify their paranoid thoughts, which grow into real-life conflicts with those around them.

Let’s look at two examples of paranoid personality disorder. These cases aren’t so clear-cut, and different mental health professionals came to different conclusions about the diagnosis in the first place. But both cases exhibit extreme paranoid thinking.

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