What does paranoia mean?

Paranoia is a group of diseases in which different reasons (biological, psychological and social environmental factors) act on the brain, which destroys the relatively stable functional state of the brain in a certain range and leads to abnormal mental activities such as cognition, emotion and will behavior. The severity and duration of the abnormality are beyond the fluctuation range of normal mental activities, thus damaging the biological and social functions of patients to a greater or lesser extent.

Diagnosis of paranoia:

1, the clinical manifestations are mainly hypochondriac symptoms, and they pay too much attention to their own health status.

2, accompanied by symptoms of anxiety and depression;

3. The ability to work, study and do housework declines;

4. The course of disease is more than 6 months;

5. Exclude schizophrenia, endogenous depression and suspected physical diseases.

Extended data:

Reasons for paranoia:

1, genetic factors

This disease has a certain familial tendency. As a genetic feature, red blood cell (ABO) blood type is related to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It is found that the incidence of obsessive-compulsive disorder type A is high and the incidence of obsessive-compulsive disorder type O is low. ..

2. Psychosocial factors

As an inducement, normal people occasionally have obsessive-compulsive ideas, but they don't last long. Only under the influence of psychological and social factors can we persist, such as changes in working environment, heavy responsibilities, high demands, difficulties, fear of accidents or family discord, sexual difficulties, tension caused by pregnancy and childbirth, and patients are cautious, indecisive, hesitant, lack of self-confidence and worried, thus causing obsessive-compulsive symptoms.

3. Organic factors

Obsessive-compulsive symptoms can be seen in patients with sleeping encephalitis, temporal lobe contusion and epilepsy. However, surgical treatment showed that excision of the white matter at the edge of the caudal nerve bundle was effective in improving obsessive-compulsive symptoms, suggesting that it was related to the function of the above parts. In addition, personality characteristics also play an important role in the pathogenesis. Such patients often have the characteristics of being rigid, orderly and too serious.

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