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John David McAfee ( / ˈmækəfiː / MAK-ə-fee; [ 3][ 4] 18 September 1945 – 23 June 2021) was a British-American computer programmer, businessman, and two-time presidential candidate who unsuccessfully sought the Libertarian Party nomination for president of the United States in 2016 and in 2020. In 1987, he wrote the first commercial anti ...
Paranoid personality disorder ( PPD) is a mental disorder characterized by paranoia, and a pervasive, long-standing suspiciousness and generalized mistrust of others. People with this personality disorder may be hypersensitive, easily insulted, and habitually relate to the world by vigilant scanning of the environment for clues or suggestions ...
Clinical lycanthropy is a rare psychiatric syndrome that involves a delusion that the affected person can transform into, has transformed into, or is, a non-human animal. [ 1] Its name is associated with the mythical condition of lycanthropy, a supernatural affliction in which humans are said to physically shapeshift into wolves. [ 2]
These are all signs of paranoid personality disorder (PPD). And, for people with the condition, these feelings and behaviors can be so strong that they interfere with someone’s daily life.
Ideas of reference and delusions of reference describe the phenomenon of an individual experiencing innocuous events or mere coincidences [ 1] and believing they have strong personal significance. [ 2] It is "the notion that everything one perceives in the world relates to one's own destiny", usually in a negative and hostile manner.
Delusional disorder, traditionally synonymous with paranoia, is a mental illness in which a person has delusions, but with no accompanying prominent hallucinations, thought disorder, mood disorder, or significant flattening of affect. [ 6][ 7] Delusions are a specific symptom of psychosis. Delusions can be bizarre or non-bizarre in content; [ 7 ...
Dementia praecox was reconstituted as schizophrenia, paranoia was renamed as delusional disorder and manic-depressive insanity as bipolar disorder (epilepsy was transferred from psychiatry to neurology). The 'mental symptoms' included under the concept schizophrenia are real enough, affect people, and will always need understanding and treatment.
t. e. Narcissistic personality disorder ( NPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a life-long pattern of exaggerated feelings of self-importance, an excessive need for admiration, and a diminished ability to empathize with other people's feelings. Narcissistic personality disorder is one of the sub-types of the broader category known as ...