paranoid
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The narrator is paranoid, weepy and violent, overwhelmed by visions of his own death, and the bass sounds as if it’s descending to a windowless dungeon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Many of its symptoms were virtually identical to the delusions of paranoid schizophrenia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
"Rigid and persistent symptoms, such as paranoid ideas or an internalized critical voice, may be stable but not very flexible prediction models," says Stänicke.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 1, 2026
He's so pretty she's paranoid she made him up.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
More extensive evaluation would be necessary to make an exact psychiatric diagnosis, but his present personality structure is very nearly that of a paranoid schizophrenic reaction.”
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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