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Paranoid Personality Traits In Schizophrenia
Paranoid personality traits often develop during schizophrenia. Sometimes these personality traits are the first abnormality that develops before the onset of psychosis.
Paranoid personality traits consist of the following:
- Excessive sensitivity to setbacks and rebuffs.
(E.g., "I don't react well when someone offends me.")
- Tendency to bear grudges persistently, e.g. unforgiving of insults, injuries or slights.
(E.g., "I've held grudges against people for a long time.")
- Suspiciousness and a pervasive tendency to distort experience by misconstruing the neutral or friendly actions of others as hostile or contemptuous.
(E.g., "I don't believe most people are fair and honest with me.")
- A combative and tenacious sense of personal rights out of keeping with the actual situation.
(E.g., "I fight for my rights even when it annoys people.")
- Recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding sexual fidelity of spouse or sexual partner.
(E.g., "I think my spouse (or lover) is unfaithful to me.")
- Persistent self-referential attitude, associated particularly with excessive self-importance.
(E.g., "People often make fun of me behind my back.")
- Preoccupation with unsubstantiated "conspiratorial" explanations of events around the subject or in the world at large.
(E.g., "I'm convinced there is a conspiracy behind many things that happen in the world.")
These paranoid personality traits of schizophrenia destroy the bonds of trust and belonging that bind individuals to their family and friends.
Thus the onset of schizophrenia can alienate individuals from their social supports.
What makes schizophrenia different from the usual paranoia in our society, is that in schizophrenia the development of paranoid personality traits usually represents a major change in the person's personality.
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