Cause of Paranoia
1) Homosexual fixation: According to Freud, the patient suffering from the disease has pushed away his tendency to homosexual love so much that he develops a fixation about it. Freud's view has been found correct in many cases, but not in all.
2) Feelings of inferiority: Here the psychologists have found that the main cause of paranoia is a sense of inferiority.
3) Emotional complex: Certain psychologist points out emotional complexes, and also believe that they are seen to be present in other mental diseases as also in normal individuals.
4) Personality type: Cameron believes a certain type to be more susceptible to this disease, a personality that has sentimentally, jealousy, suspicion, ambition, selfishness and shyness etc.
5) Heredity: In the opinion of Fisher the main responsibility of paranoia lies fairly and squarely upon heredity, although he does not deny the importance of repression and emotional complexes. The causes of paranoia are not physical because no patient exhibits any signs of physical deformity and among the causes there are many important" ones, such as defects of personality, sense of inferiority, repression etc.
Until very recently – the last 15 to 20 years in fact - no one suspected just how many people had paranoid thoughts. But several research projects have now lifted the lid – and the results are striking. Here are just a few statistics from some of those research projects.
In a survey of 8580 UK adults, 21% said there’d been times over the past year when they’d felt people were against them. 9% said they’d believed that their thoughts were being controlled or interfered with by some outside force or person. 1.5% said there’d been times when they’d felt people were plotting to cause them serious harm.
A study of 1005 adults in New York found that 10.6% believed other people were following or spying on them. 6.9% thought people were plotting against them, or trying to poison them. 4.6% believed people were either secretly testing them, or experimenting upon them.
A French survey of 462 adults found that 25% had, at some point in their lives, felt that they were being persecuted in some way. 10.4% had sometimes believed there was a conspiracy against them.
A study of 1202 British university students (aged 16 to 61) assessed their feelings over the previous month. 42% said that, at least once a week, they had thought that negative comments about them might be circulating. 27% had felt that people were deliberately trying to irritate them, and 19% had thought that they might be being observed or followed. 5% thought there might be a conspiracy against them.
More than a thousand older adults (aged 55 and above) in Brooklyn, New York were assessed. 13% had, in the previous week, experienced paranoid thoughts.
Paranoia, then, is widespread – so widespread, in fact, that around 15 to 20% of the population have frequent paranoid thoughts. Most of those people aren’t much troubled by their suspicious thoughts. But a further 3 to 5 % have pretty severe paranoia. For this smaller group of people, their paranoia is often serious enough to need specialist treatment.
Well, Freud was a coked-up nutjob.
Besides, a paranoid person shouldn't worry that everybody is out to get him; He should only worry about the one that will get him....
Jeep, those are some interesting statistics and percentages for paranoia
Using my extraordinary logical skills, I've come up with another number, totally higher than yours.
If anywhere from 15-20% of the population are paranoid, I think I can safely say that 98% of those paranoid people are on this website from the posts I read
Please note, the author is not responsible for any ideas, facts, etc stated in his comments and does not constitute any liability for his dribble.
Jeep, those are some interesting statistics and percentages for paranoia
Using my extraordinary logical skills, I've come up with another number, totally higher than yours.
If anywhere from 15-20% of the population are paranoid, I think I can safely say that 98% of those paranoid people are on this website from the posts I read
Ya know Spart, I think this time you are 100% right.
When ya think about it, paranoia and treasure hunting go hand in hand.
You just may be onto some ground breaking research there my friend
If you find me upside down, Roll me over.
"I dream of a world where chickens can cross roads
without having their motives questioned..."
Jeep, those are some interesting statistics and percentages for paranoia
Using my extraordinary logical skills, I've come up with another number, totally higher than yours.
If anywhere from 15-20% of the population are paranoid, I think I can safely say that 98% of those paranoid people are on this website from the posts I read
Ya know Spart, I think this time you are 100% right.
When ya think about it, paranoia and treasure hunting go hand in hand.
You just may be onto some ground breaking research there my friend
Disclaimer: This is not to be taken as professional help or even fact. This is my personal opinion.
The mental process or state of mind known as "paranoia" is in everyone. It's the subtle unction deep down inside that doomsday is coming. That at the end of life's journey is only mental anguish and physical pain forever. Even atheists who don't believe in any "here after" can suffer from this syndrome (over the decades I've dealt with many). It's really odd but they greatly fear great suffering in the after life. But they don't believe in an after life! Such is the nature of this mental disorder.
This strange natural phenomenon is at the very root of the so-called "panic attack" disorder. Fortunately this disorder can often be alleviated with professional help, a diet change, and increased physical activity.
Paranoiac type symptoms are common in people who have too much leisure time on their hands and a poor diet. Idleness is one of the big factors that can lead to paranoia. This is greatly amplified when financial problems are also associated with the lack of work (which is usually the case).
This is a simplistic explanation on how it works. When one fills one's life with distractions (work, love, goals, etc.) one has a much stronger resistance to those suppressed feelings of impending doom (which really everyone has). This doesn't eliminated it, but it keeps it in the background and under control.
Anyone having severe symptoms should seek professional help.
FarmerChick, what scares me and confirms my suspicions is the disclaimer Michigan Badger ran before his post.. Michigan Badger, are you by chance a little paranoid that someone might try to sue you with your advice
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