Personality refers to the ways in which a person thinks, feels and behaves. How a person with a Paranoid Personality Disorder thinks, feels and behaves often causes problems and distress for others and themself. They find it hard to control their feelings and behaviour and form and maintain relationships. Paranoid Personality Disorder is more common in young adults than in older adults. A person with Paranoid Personality Disorder may have symptoms of another type of Personality Disorder (PD).

 

Symptoms of Paranoid Personality Disorder

Paranoid Personality Disorder is a distrust and suspiciousness of others. A person with Paranoid Personality Disorder self-referentially suspects they are being conspired against, deceived or harmed by others, reads hidden threatening meaning into benign remarks, blames others and bears grudges against them. Paranoid Personality Disorder, like all Personality Disorders (PD), is considered either a definable and treatable mental health problem or a label for socially unacceptable behaviour.

Causes of Paranoid Personality Disorder

The causes of Paranoid Personality Disorder include adolescence, aggression, alcoholic parents, childhood abuse, childhood behavioural problems, physical abuse, sexual abuse, or violent parents. A lack of love from demanding, distant, rejecting and rigid parents can make a person distrustful and suspicious of others. Triggers for Paranoid Personality Disorder include alcohol abuse, anxiety, debt, depression, drug abuse, family problems, mental health problems and personal relationships.

 

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