Paranoids can't tolerate ambiguity.In their minds nothing is accidental or random,everything means something and everything relates to everything else.
This sort of thinking can lead to genius or to psychosis,depending on how it is used.
Paranoid see things that other people can't,but do the things they see realy exist?
The word "paranoia" means "thinking beside oneself" and has been used by people who treat personality disorders to describe virtually all forms of craziness,especially those involving false beliefs.
The problem with the concept is that is not so simple to determine which beliefs are false and which are true.
Paranoia is easier to understand looking at the patterns of thimking that lead to false beliefs,rather than at the beliefs themselves.Paranoids are blessed and cursed with the ability to perceive very tiny cues,they drive themselves crazy by trying to organize details into coherent and unambiguous whole.
Paranoids compulsion to organize may have their roots at the neurological level and such a behaviour creates tremendous problem in relating with human beings.
When paranoids look at other people they see too much for their own good and everybody else's.
A paranoid person sees the human condition in all its ambiguous details.People exist in many different levels at the same time,no human thought is singular and no feeling is pure.Many of the conflicts that people experience are observable in slight hesitations,small changes in expression and most people ignore these tiny cues.Paranoids try to sort them in love and hate,yes or no,truth or falsehood.
Paranoids see the confusing and uncertain details of life so clearly.Later,they drain you with endless probing of the uncertainly they perceive in you.Paranoids can feel like they are at the center of a vast conspiracy,they become guarded and suspicious.Paranoid people search in vain for purity and truth.
Truth,loyality,courage,honor and the like are not abstration in the minds of paranoids,they are living,breathing presence that these people live by and will die for if called upon to do so.At least,that's the way paranoids themselves imagine it.In reality the paranoids are just as likely as anybody else to justify their self-serving actions,but they have a utter certainty of their own virtue.
Aside from their questionable approch to morality,paranoids are capable of extreme purity of thought.They vacillate between extreme naivete and utter cynicism.Their goal is to achieve happy world,family,business in which everyone follows the same rigid rules as they do.When poeple go along paranoids are happy,loving and giving.If other people want to think and act for themselves,paranoids take it as personal insult.
What is like to be paranoid?
Imagine a first time date with a person you like,you talk of nothing in particular,yet you desperately search every word of your companion for clues to what he or she really thinks about you.You're happy at tiny signs of acceptance and you are sad at the slightest hint of rejection.
This is the usual "business" of paranoids,they analyze every conversation in categories.
Paranoids long to make sense for themselves and to be understood by others.This selfish quest can bring suffering to the humanity or great gifts in the form of art and philosophy.Paranoia and narcissism are the world's two main source of creativity.
How to protect yourself from paranoid people
Paranoid people live in a alternative universe in which everything is wonderful as long as everyone is faithful to them.The certainty of their world can be very attractive from the outside,but once you go in,it is hard to get out.Before get in paranoid world be sure in what you're getting into.If you're in already.remember don't hide anything,the paranoid will find it and be loyal,but never accept the borden of proving your loyality.
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