Persecution delusions

Introduction Persecuted paranoia is a chronic disease that is dominated by systematic, organized delusions. The prevalence rate is estimated to be about 0.03%. The incidence rate is not the gender difference between men and women, and it is mostly in the middle or late stage of adulthood. The paranoia of delusional patients is non-weird, which means that the content will involve contextual situations that can occur in daily life, such as being tracked, poisoned, admired, deceived or framed by family members. In general, delusional patients do not have hallucinations, and a small number of hallucinations or olfactory hallucinations associated with delusional themes.

Cause

There is no evidence that genetic factors play an important role, and more often begin to develop under the influence of mental factors such as accidents, frustrations or failures, so mental factors may play a role in triggering. Some social and physical factors, such as social and economic deprivation, deafness, insomnia and poisoning, contribute to the formation of paranoid thoughts, loneliness, isolation from the world, and in a language-deficient environment are also prone to persecution paranoia.

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Symptom description

Persecutty type: Persevering in persecution, deception, tracing, poisoning, defamation, or conspiracy, patients tend to become extremely cautious and prepared, and small scorns may be magnified by patients and become delusions. At the core of the world, people are often included in the world of their own imagination.

Differential diagnosis

Paranoia should be differentiated from schizophrenia.

Paranoia is one of the symptoms of schizophrenia, but sometimes or transient paranoia does not mean that you have schizophrenia. Paranoia patients have a paranoid personality basis, the objects and contents of delusions are relatively fixed, the structure is strict, the system has a tendency to be more coordinated, the personality is complete, and the true schizophrenia patients do not have the above characteristics.

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