Caution is a useful quality that allows you to avoid many unpleasant situations.
But sometimes a person exhibits excessive suspicion, winds himself up and questions any words and motives of those around him.
Paranoiac - what is it?
Paranoia - it is an active and persistent aspiration, not recognizing barriers.
Paranoid personalities - this is essentially unbalanced, characterized by steadfast aspirations and the presence of overvalued ideas people.
Paronyalny type may manifest itself in different ways depending on related components of personality. So, coupled with hysterical features, this type will be prone to manipulative behavior towards others.
In such situations, there is a tendency to lie, the desire to emphasize their social status and a keen desire to get into high society.
If there is a schizoid component, the person will consciously refuse contact with others. Such a person will be formed own theories about what is happening, people will seem too unreliable and fixated on their own interests.
Personality type description
Determining in a crowd of a paranoiac person is not easybecause this type of character, despite the presence of expressive features, is not identified in society as exceptional or abnormal.
People with a paranoiac character are always preoccupied with some kind of "central" problem or idea.
They, discarding common sensethey are trying to close the goal formed on the basis of a supervaluable idea by any means and methods.
At the same time, this type can easily sacrifice both their own interests and those of others.
When interacting with others, the paranoiac person does not seek to objectively assess the situation, find a compromise or identify their own mistakes and false beliefs. Individual just "Bends your line", while ignoring other people, including those close and meaningful.
Strengths
A strong feature of this type is increased efficiency and dedication.
Paranoid people do not recognize half measures and go to the end, defending their beliefs.
Such personalities are not conducted on manipulation, they easily avoid influence and are guided only by an internal “moral indicator”, with the help of which they determine the value / significance of ideas.
Weak
Paranoid man - slave of his ideas.
He is not able to soberly assess the situation, is prone to one-sided judgments and reliance on the facts taken out of context.
Poplar categorical, selfishness and overestimation, and the pursuit of universal acceptance often leads to conflict situations.
At the same time, a person painfully perceives a scornful attitude from others. If society ignores the paranoid individual, it in turn devalues other people's judgments and priority ideas to justify the indifference of society by limited thinking.
This type is characterized by obsession with insults, suspicion, a tendency to distort facts and misinterpret other people's motives / actions.
Example №1
The man is convinced that local officials steal money from the budget. The paranoiac man begins write complaints, seek support in the face of the media representatives and form active groups, whose task is to bring officials to clean water.
All these activities take a lot of time, because of what a person has to neglect work and household chores. He refuses to rest, entertainment and other pleasures due to obsession overvalued idea.
Desire to expose and punish unscrupulous managers coming to the fore.
To the "fight for justice" paranoid man attracts his family.
He forces children to hand out campaign leaflets, and persuades his wife to attend rallies and activist meetings.
Example 2
For the sake of confirming her own status and involvement in high society, a woman attends social events. She spends her family budget to buy expensive clothes, shoes and accessories that necessary for it to assert itself.
Desire to please surrounding is mixed with obsessive ideas that the ladies of the world secretly laugh at her clothes and awkward phrases.
External friendliness is not supported by internal sensations and comes into resonance with touchiness and arrogance.
Paranoid accentuation: recommendations
Accentuation of character is an extreme version of the norm, in which the characteristics inherent in a type of character appear most clearly.
This phenomenon cannot be considered as a deviation or a painful state of mind, since it reflects only the totality of certain features, and not the existence of problems per se.
During paranoiac accentation, a person does not understand the motives and feelings of other people, relying on his own, often distorted, perception of reality.
The individual quickly goes through his thoughts one by one until until you stop at a particular idea. Then the person simply “gets stuck” on this idea and will go right through, closing his eyes to everything else.
How to be?
Paranoid need occasional stop and assess the situation. A person should not become a tool to achieve the goal, as well as use others for this.
It is important to take into account the interests of others. It is not necessary to divide or accept them, but it is just necessary to consider.
In order to establish contact with others and make an objective picture of what is happening, will have to communicate with people.
It is better to directly ask someone about the true motives and feelings than to invent their own options and theories.
Fantasy only aggravate the situation and "will build a wall of misunderstanding."
Slow down the train of thought and get rid of the obsessive desire to reach the goal at any cost and at any time of the day by meditation practices, work with a psychologist, yoga and other relaxing techniques.
Without the help of specialists, it is impossible to correct the accentuation of character.
Therefore, the most optimal behavior strategy when interacting with a paranoid person is try to minimize conflicts and avoid sharp corners. Controversial topics can be identified immediately so that they can be carefully avoided.
Symptoms of the syndrome
Paranoiac syndrome associated with overwhelming distrust and suspicion.
The person with the disorder is sure that the surrounding people play “convenient roles” in order to carry out or deceive him, taking advantage of his gullibility, resources, etc.
A person with a syndrome is looking for hidden overtones and evil intentions in the words and actions of others.
Even a banal discussion of the weather, news and interests leads to the fact that the paranoid type is trying to interpret words from the perspective of the malicious intent of the interlocutor.
In the absence of corrective measures, the disorder leads to the fact that individual seeming conspiracies.
The patient may even “attack” the one who seems to him the most dangerous, in order to prevent the first move of the “malefactor”.
Symptoms:
- unfounded suspicions of others about the presence of evil thoughts or plans;
- secrecy and the desire to protect personal data by any available means;
- doubts about the loyalty and loyalty of loved ones / friends;
- negative reaction and attacks in response to any (even constructive) criticism and comments);
- confidence that representatives of society are discussing a person, mocking him and whispering behind his back.
How is nonsense?
Paranoiac delirium (PB) is a primary delirium that is not accompanied by hallucinations and clouding of consciousness, but manifests itself in the form of interpretative errors.
Otherwise it is called "Nonsense interpretation".
Those. in the presence of this deviation a person cannot correctly interpret the meaning of the actions of others and attributed to them a completely different erroneous meaning.
For example, when a colleague is laughing next to a person suffering from PB, an individual with a disorder perceives his smile as mockery of himself, as well as an attempt to offend, insult, offend.
Psychopathy treatment
Psychopathy is the pathological enhancement of negative traits within the framework of the type of character or mental disorders that exist.
Paranoiac psychopathy is expressed in the following symptoms.:
- no doubt about their own right;
- the presence of overvalued ideas;
- acute intolerance of objections;
- heightened self-esteem;
- pronounced egoism;
- the desire to get others to immediately execute their own orders, instructions, etc.
For the treatment of psychopathy used hypnosis, explanatory psychotherapy and even drug correction conditions if the patient has severe mood swings and emotional instability.
It is very important to throw all forces on the social adaptation of the patient, minimize the risks of conflict situations and send the “destructive energy” of the overvalued ideas to a peaceful course.
Psychopathy cannot be completely eliminated. One way or another, but the pathology will pursue the patient for life. Therefore, drug treatment can not be considered as a way out.
After all, the use of antidepressants or neuroleptics on an ongoing basis is impossible and simply dangerous to humans. Drugs can only be an episodic measure to eliminate hysterical seizures.
In the long run, a person with psychopathy must learn to live in society, interact with others, analyze and control his condition based on this analysis.
A person with a paranoid type of character no need to suppress your own features. It is enough to find a constructive behavior and stick to this strategy in order to become a realized and happy person.
Personality typology - paranoiac type:
