Paranoia is a thought process influenced by anxiety and fear that can lead to irrational beliefs and delusions. It involves persecutory beliefs that others are conspiring to threaten or harm oneself. Paranoia is sometimes misused to describe a phobia and has genetic and environmental links. Paranoid personality disorder is characterized by long-standing suspiciousness, mistrust of others, and hypersensitivity. Obsessive-compulsive disorder involves intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing anxiety. Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is characterized by a preoccupation with orderliness and perfectionism at the expense of flexibility.

1. MENTAL ILLNESS

2. Paranoia
• para- madness noid-mind (greek)
• Paranoia is a thought process believed to be
heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the
point of irrationality and delusion
• Persecutory beliefs, ( beliefs of conspiracy
concerning a perceived threat towards oneself. )
• Paranoia is sometimes misused to describe a
phobia. Its closely linked with genetic and
environmental factors
• HOWEVER (“Just because you're paranoid
doesn't mean they aren't after you.“)

3. • Fears of a petty conspiracy – a political
rival or business competitor plotting to do
you harm – are as old as the human
psyche.
Like fears of a grand conspiracy – that the
Jews plan to take over the world
• However

4. PARANOID?? OR NOT??
"It would not be strange if they had developed the technology to induce cancer
and nobody knew about it until now ... I don't know. I'm just reflecting,“:-
Hugo Chavez
According to Cuban officials, the CIA attempted to kill Fidel Castro a total of
638 times. This figure is probably bloated, but it is safe to assume that such
attempts were numerous indeed.

5. Paranoid personality disorder
• Paranoid personality disorder is a mental disorder
characterized by paranoia and a pervasive, long-standing
suspiciousness and generalized mistrust of others. Paranoid
personality disorder occurs in about 0.5%–2.5% of the
general population. It occurs more commonly in males
• hypersensitive
• easily feel slighted
• vigilant scanning of the environment for clues or suggestions
that may validate their fears or biases.
• Paranoid individuals are eager observers.
• They think they are in danger and look for signs and threats of
that danger, potentially not appreciating other evidence
• Potential to cause immediate violence as a response

6. Treatment
• Because of reduced levels of trust, there
can be challenges in treating paranoid
personality disorder.
• However, psychotherapy,
antidepressants, antipsychotics and anti-
anxiety medications can play a role when
an individual is receptive to intervention

7. PRONOIA:
• Long before the term was coined, J.D. Salinger
referred to the concept in the novella, Raise High
the Roof Beam, Carpenters: "I'm a kind of
paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting
to make me happy.
• Pronoia is a newly coined term that is defined as
the opposite state of mind as paranoia: having the
sense that there is a conspiracy that exists to help
the person.
• It is also used to describe a philosophy that the
world is set up to secretly benefit people.
• ZIPPIE ,YIPPIE,

8. More ,,,
• Invasion Of The Body Snatchers.
• The conversation
• Shutter island
• The lives of others
• The Thing

9. Obsessive–compulsive disorder
• (OCD) is an anxiety disorder characterized
by intrusive thoughts that produce
uneasiness, apprehension, fear, or worry,
by repetitive behaviours aimed at reducing
the associated anxiety, or by a
combination of such obsessions and
compulsions.
• OCD is the fourth most common mental
disorder, and is diagnosed nearly as often
as asthma and diabetes.

10. Symptoms
• excessive washing or cleaning
• repeated checking
• extreme hoarding
• preoccupation with sexual, violent or religious thoughts
• aversion to particular numbers
• nervous rituals
such as opening and closing a door a certain number of times
before entering or leaving a room.
These symptoms can be alienating and time-consuming, and
often cause severe emotional and financial distress. The acts of
those who have OCD may appear paranoid. However, OCD
sufferers generally recognize their obsessions and compulsions
as irrational, and may become further distressed by this
realization.

11. • OCD is sometimes associated with above-
average intelligence
• Its sufferers commonly share personality
traits such as high attention to detail,
avoidance of risk, careful planning,
exaggerated sense of responsibility and a
tendency to take time in making decisions

12. Obsessive–compulsive personality
disorder
• Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) is
a personality disorder characterized by a pervasive
pattern of preoccupation with orderliness,
perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control at
the expense of flexibility, openness, and efficiency.
• symptoms of OCPD can include preoccupation with
remembering and paying attention to minute details
and facts, following rules and regulations, compulsion
to make lists and schedules, as well as
rigidity/inflexibility of beliefs and/or exhibition of
perfectionism that interferes with task-completion.
Symptoms may cause extreme distress and interfere
with a person's occupational and social functioning.

13. • Some patients with OCPD show an obsessive
need for cleanliness
• OCPD is often confused with OCD.
• they are two distinct disorders, although some
OCPD individuals also suffer from OCD, and the
two are sometimes found in the same family,
• People experiencing OCPD do not generally feel
the need to repeatedly perform ritualistic actions a
common symptom of OCD and usually find
pleasure in perfecting a task,
• whereas OCD patients are often more distressed
after their actions.

14. Examples
• Stanley Kubrick
• Justin Timberlake
• Winston Churchill
• David Beckham
• Cameron Diaz
• Howard Hughes( the aviator 2004)