paranoid delusion

collocation in English

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paranoid
adjective
uk
/ˈpær.ən.ɔɪd/us
/ˈper.ə.nɔɪd/
feeling extremely nervous and worried because you believe that other people do not like you or are trying to ...
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delusion
noun[C or U]
uk
/dɪˈluː.ʒən/us
/dɪˈluː.ʒən/
belief in something that is ...
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We are told that residents are suffering from aparanoiddelusionand fear something that does not exist, but it does exist.
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In that year, her father was assassinated by one of his former patients who was suffering from aparanoiddelusion.
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This is shown as aparanoiddelusionthat robots are actually the living dead, intent on harming humans.
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Many studies have supported the theory that the understanding of intention is impaired in patients with paranoid delusions.
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Paranoid delusions and auditory hallucinations were the predominant features, with formal thought disorder, catatonic features and negative symptoms being uncommon.
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The patient with paranoid delusions has no problem ascribing intentions to other people.
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A young woman with paranoid delusions remembered walking up the stairs eating coal.
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A man with paranoid delusions recalled that at the age of five he was run over by a car that went right over him.
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There is a well-established association between deafness and late paraphrenia, a form of schizophrenia occurring in late life that is characterised by prominent paranoid delusions and auditory hallucinations.
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False inferences about the intentions of others therefore lead to paranoid delusions, while referential delusions are a consequence of falsely inferring that others are communicating with one.
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Sixteen had delusions of persecution, reference or misidentification (paranoid delusions) with no behavioural signs.
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He has since suffered psychotic attacks, and has had paranoid delusions and terror attacks.
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With prolonged use, often accompanied by lack of sleep, the drug can cause itching, tachycardia, hallucinations, and paranoid delusions.
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Any patient, they explain, can be misdiagnosed by clinicians, especially patients with a history of paranoid delusions.
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His father, worried that his son suffered from paranoid delusions, petitioned the court for a sanity hearing.
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Common signs of the disorder include hallucinations, paranoid delusions, and disorganized speech and thinking.
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A presence of paranoid delusions and hallucinations of injury to the spouse were most often associated with violence.
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He is illiterate, and suffers from paranoid delusions and has multiple personality disorders.
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He is stated as having paranoid delusions and intermittent memory loss.
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Psychotic symptoms from methylphenidate can include hearing voices, visual hallucinations, urges to harm oneself, severe anxiety, mania, grandiosity, paranoid delusions, confusion, increased aggression, and irritability.
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