What Is a Paranoid Personality?

Paranoid personality, self-righteous, pretentious, overestimating his own abilities, accustomed to blame others for failure and responsibility, often overstatement in work and study; meanwhile, he is inferior and always demands too much, but Never trust others' motives and desires, think others have bad intentions; ca nt analyze the situation correctly and objectively; it is easy to start from personal feelings when there is a problem; subjective one-sidedness; if you build a family, you often suspect your spouse's infidelity and so on.

Paranoid personality

Paranoid personality is also called delusional personality. Its behavioral characteristics are often manifested as: extreme allergies, indignant to insults and injuries; stubborn thoughts and behaviors, sensitive and suspicious, narrow-minded; love jealousy, nervous about others' achievement or honor, burn in jealousy, not provocation Arguing is to talk blandly behind the scenes, or openly complain and blame others. People with this personality cannot be harmonious at home and cannot get along well with friends and colleagues. Others have to respect him.

Chinese Medicine Name: Paranoid personality
Affiliated Department: Internal Medicine-Neurology

The main symptoms: Nervousness
Contagious: Non-contagious
Whether to enter health insurance: no

Paranoid personality profile

Paranoid Personality Case

The TV series "Desire" has once made a sensation throughout the country, of which Wang Yaru's character may still be remembered. Wang Yaru is almost the "most impersonal" person unanimously recognized by the audience. She is arrogant, arrogant, indifferent, lonely, suspicious, unsmiling, unsociable, jealous, and stereotyped; she works with Huifang, Xiaofang, and Yuejuan. , Aunt Liu, etc. are incompatible with each other: they are often angry at their parents and their only younger brother. It is even more cold and unreasonable to treat her lover Luo Gang; even the only old classmate "sociating with her" Li, often Because she couldn't stand her weird temper, she wanted to give up a few times. She did everything she wanted, she did everything she wanted, and she spoke and acted on her own will and passion. She did nt consider the emotions and grief of others, and she did nt consider the social influence. To the extent that people hate others, these behavior patterns of Wang Yaru show a typical paranoid personality.

Paranoid Personality

In order to facilitate the diagnosis, the characteristics of paranoid personality are described in "Chinese Classification Scheme and Diagnostic Standards for Mental Illness" (CCMD 1-2R) as:

1. Extensive suspicion, often misunderstanding others' unintentional, non-malicious and even friendly behaviors as hostility or discrimination, or without sufficient basis, suspecting that they will be used or harmed by others, so they are overly vigilant and defensive.

2. Interpret the surroundings as a "conspiracy" that is not in line with the actual situation and can become an overpriced concept.

3. Prone to pathological jealousy.

4. Excessive conceit, if you have setbacks or failures, blame others and always consider yourself correct.

5. I hate others and can't tolerate wrongdoing.

6. Depart from actual argumentation and hostility, and stubbornly pursue individuals' unreasonable "rights" or interests.

7. Ignore or distrust objective evidence that is inconsistent with the patient's mind. It is difficult to change the patient's mind with reason or fact.

A patient's symptoms must meet at least three of the above items before a diagnosis of paranoid personality disorder can be made.

People with paranoid personality rarely have self-knowledge, and they have a denial attitude towards their paranoid implementation. Therefore, the number and proportion in society is really unknown. According to the 1988 Shanghai Youth Mental Health Survey, the number of people with this type of personality disorder accounts for 5.8% of the total number of people with mental disorders. The actual situation may exceed this proportion. It was also found in surveys that men were more common in patients with paranoid personality disorder, and both introverted and extroverted personality were found.

Paranoid Personality Therapy

For the treatment of paranoid personality disorder, psychotherapy should be adopted mainly to overcome the suspiciousness, stubbornness, insecurity and self-centered personality defects. There are the following methods.

Paranoid Personality Improvement

Because patients are distrustful, sensitive and suspicious of others, they will not accept any kind advice. Therefore, they must first establish a trust relationship with them, exchange emotions on the basis of mutual trust, and comprehensively introduce them to the nature, characteristics and harmfulness of their personality disorders And corrective methods, so that they have a correct and objective understanding of themselves, and consciously and voluntarily produce the desire to change their personality defects. This is a prerequisite for further psychotherapy.

Paranoid Personal Personality Training

Encourage them to actively engage in dating activities, learn to trust others in making friends, and eliminate anxiety. The principles and essentials of dating training are:

(1) Meet in good faith and sincerely. I must adopt a sincere and open-minded attitude to make positive friends. We must believe that most people are friendly, good, and trustworthy. There should be no prejudice or distrust towards friends, especially close friends. It must be clear that the purpose of making friends is to overcome paranoia, seek friendship and help, exchange thoughts and feelings, and eliminate psychological obstacles.

(2) Give active friends as much help as possible. This helps to exchange heart for heart, gain trust from each other and strengthen friendship. Especially when others are in trouble, they should help each other and know the truth in times of trouble, so as to gain the trust of friends and enhance friendship.

(3) Pay attention to the "psychological compatibility principle of personals: similarity and consistency of personality and temperament will help psychological compatibility and improve the relationship between friends. In addition, gender, age, occupation, cultural attainment, economic level, social status and interest There is also the problem of "psychological compatibility" in hobbies. However, the most basic condition for psychological compatibility is the similarity and consistency of ideological values and values of life, so-called "common minds." This is the psychological basis for developing cooperation and consolidating friendship.

Paranoid Personality Therapy

People with paranoid personality like to go to extremes, which is related to the irrational ideas in their heads. Therefore, in order to change paranoid behavior, paranoid personality patients must first analyze their irrational ideas. Such as:

I cannot tolerate the slightest infidelity of others.

There are no good people in the world, I just believe in myself.

To attack others, I must set a goal to fight back strongly and let him know that I am stronger than him.

I can't show tenderness, it will give a feeling of not being strong.

These ideas should be reformed to remove extreme extremes.

I am not saying that there is no one king, and occasional infidelity of others should be forgiven.

There are good people and bad people in the world. I should trust those good people.

Immediate counterattack against others' attacks may not be the best policy, and I must first discern whether or not they have actually been attacked.

I dare not express true emotions, which is a sign of weakness in itself.

Whenever the state of mind re-emerges, you should meditate on the transformed rationalized ideas to prevent your extreme behavior. Sometimes I unknowingly showed extreme behavior, and afterwards I should re-analyze the thoughts at that time. I developed the irrational ideas at that time and then reformed them to prevent the next crime.

Paranoid Personality Hostility Correction Act

Patients with paranoid personality disorder are susceptible to hostility and distrust of others and their surroundings. The following training methods can help overcome the hostile confrontation psychology.

(1) Always remind yourself not to get stuck in the vortex of "hostility." Self-remind and warn in advance, and pay attention to correction when dealing with others, this will significantly reduce hostility and strong emotional reactions.

(2) To understand the basic principle that only respect for others can be respected by others. Learn to say thank you to those who have helped you, rather than say "thank you" without any pain, let alone ignore it.

(3) Learn to smile at everyone you know. You may be unaccustomed at first and do it unnaturally, but you must do it and work hard to do it well.

(4) Learn to be patient and patient in life. Living in a complicated world, conflicts and frictions are inevitable. At this time, tolerance and restraint must be tolerated, and hostile anger cannot be burned and he can turn his head into a raging fire.