Psychology, pathological, specific, anxiety.  ---  .This section is about anxiety.  ---  1/24/2006

Psychology, pathological, specific, anxiety.  ---  "Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you", said Woody Allen.  I say, "Just because they are after you doesn't mean you have to be paranoid."  ---  1/3/2004

Psychology, pathological, specific, anxiety.  ---  (1) Defining the opposite of anxiety as bravery means defining anxiety as cowardice.  (2) Defining the opposite of anxiety as confidence means defining anxiety as a lack of confidence.  (3) I think that the latter is a more accurate conception of anxiety than the former.  (See also, sections for bravery and confidence).  ---  12/1/2004

Psychology, pathological, specific, anxiety.  ---  (1) Spectrum of fear.  When does prudence become caution become wariness become paranoia?  (2) Why do cocaine and methamphetamine promote paranoia?  ---  6/23/2002

Psychology, pathological, specific, anxiety.  ---  Is it paranoia or is it just a lack of social knowledge and social skills that causes a social clumsiness that leads one to fear and mistrust other people?  ---  2/1/2002

Psychology, pathological, specific, anxiety.  ---  Paranoia, causes of  (1) Stress: real or imagined.  (2) Ostracism.  ---  12/30/1992

Psychology, pathological, specific, anxiety.  ---  Paranoia.  (1) Argument against pessimism.  Pessimism can lead to paranoia, by always seeing the worst in people.  (2) Paranoia is due to lack of trust (?).  Trust is a (social) emotion (?).  (3) Is paranoia always sex based?  Is paranoia always due to us projecting our ill will on others?  Is paranoia always fear?  (4) Paranoia makes us see the wrong picture, and make the wrong moves, and screw up our lives.  ---  3/30/1998

Psychology, pathological, specific, anxiety.  ---  Paranoia.  At what point does a desire for privacy turn into raging paranoia?  One is healthy, the other not.  ---  6/4/2001

Psychology, pathological, specific, anxiety.  ---  Paranoia.  Five thoughts about paranoia.  (1) If your superego is too big.  That is, if you follow a rigid rule system.  If you fear punishment by authority (god, police, government, parents, peers).  Then it is easy to become paranoid.  (2) Paranoia can easily drive a person nuts.  It is just too much stress and pressure.  (3) Those people biochemically disposed  to anxiety (fear) can easily become paranoid.  However, paranoia is specifically a social fear, a fear of other people in relation to self.  (4) Guilt increases paranoia.  If you  tell people that they are born evil and sinful, what does that do to self-worth?  It lowers it.  It creates people who feel a deep sense of shame, guilt and fear.  It creates paranoia.  That is no way to live.  (5) Paranoia: to think the worst of people, and to expect the worst from life.  From pessimism to paranoia is a short step.  ---  4/1/2000

Psychology, pathological, specific, anxiety.  ---  Paranoia.  If you are a depressive person, and you have a negative attitude, and you hate yourself, others, life, and god, and you think people are shit and mostly do bad things, and you don't trust people for that reason, then you are suffering from depression and negative attitude, not paranoia.  ---  01/12/1997

Psychology, pathological, specific, anxiety.  ---  Paranoia.  Rooted in unconscious memories, emotions, and thoughts of sex.  Transferred to another subject or not.  Justified or not.  ---  12/30/1992

Psychology, pathological, specific, anxiety.  ---  Paranoia.  Sometimes it is not paranoia, it is just fear and an active imagination.  ---  08/17/1997

Psychology, pathological, specific, anxiety.  ---  Paranoia.  Techniques for reduction of paranoia.  (1) Don't break legal law unless necessary.  (2) Don't break social laws unless necessary.  (3) Don't make enemies unless necessary.  ---  12/30/1992

Psychology, pathological, specific, anxiety.  ---  Paranoia.  Will there be a rise in paranoia cases due to the increase in the use of surveillance cameras?  ---  02/09/1997