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Paranoid Personality Disorder

Defined
Paranoid Personality Disorder is defined by Dictionary.com to be :

a personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of distrust and suspicion of others resulting in a
tendency to attribute the motives of others to malevolence
Symptoms


Distrusting and suspicious of other peoples
motives


Suspects people of exploiting or decieving them


Preoccupied with unjustified doubts


Reads hidden threats conseald in everyday
remarks


Little sence of humour


Social Isolation
Causes of PPD

There are no proven causes of Paranoid Personality


Disorder however there are a few theories.


PPD is a learned disorder


Genetics
Treatment

Phycotherapy


Medication

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