What causes paranoia?

Answer:

Some people may have a life full of setbacks, for instance, a really bad time at high school, an unhappy family life, a recurring theme that brings back bad memories.

If they get support and hope, they will overcome such setbacks. If they become deprived, depressed and detached persistently they will find it really hard to carry on with the normal daily activities expected of them. In such cases, they do not feel very confident about their future as they have been let down so many times that they begin to wonder if there is a light at the end of the tunnel. They will feel extremely alone and scared at times and today's modern addicts will make the situation even worse for them. This may result in paranoia as some people may begin to manipulate them in order to satisfy their craving for success. They do not trust people because they are scared of feeling even worse.

In protecting themselves, Paranoia sets in and they will analyze and investigate to find the truth amongst the lies as they have a desperate need for peace of mind. If they do not find hope from somewhere, they may persist and become obsessive. As they try to put the pieces of the puzzle "evidence" together they may not find an answer and become confused, depressed or violent. They may become extremely violent if they are supported a little and then something really bad happens to them which brings back there confusion. Pressures also triggers the bad memories. They will probably find an outlet for there frustrations. They may invent a world that is unreal or based on actual facts in order to cope. This may be the explanation for schizophrenia.

An obsessive compulsive disorder is protecting yourself from a bad experience that will bring back extremely bad memories. They will try to control everything in order to stop it happening again and they will be really nervous when things are out of their control.

So what causes paranoia is bad memories that lead to fear. Fear of losing what you have. It is hard not to be afraid these days as there are many things that create low self-esteem,

Cause of Paranoia

1) Homosexual fixation: According to Freud, the patient suffering from the disease has pushed away his tendency to homosexual love so much that he develops a fixation about it. Freud's view has been found correct in many cases, but not in all.
2) Feelings of inferiority: Here the psychologists have found that the main cause of paranoia is a sense of inferiority.
3) Emotional complex: Certain psychologist points out emotional complexes, and also believe that they are seen to be present in other mental diseases as also in normal individuals.
4) Personality type: Cameron believes a certain type to be more susceptible to this disease, a personality that has sentimentally, jealousy, suspicion, ambition, selfishness and shyness etc.
5) Heredity: In the opinion of Fisher the main responsibility of paranoia lies fairly and squarely upon heredity, although he does not deny the importance of repression and emotional complexes. The causes of paranoia are not physical because no patient exhibits any signs of physical deformity and among the causes there are many important" ones, such as defects of personality, sense of inferiority, repression etc.