Paranoid personality disorder
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Paranoid personality disorder (PPD) is a mental health condition marked by a pattern of distrust and suspicion of others without adequate reason to be suspicious. People with PPD are always on guard, believing that others are constantly trying to demean, harm or threaten them. Paranoid personality disorder (PPD) is a mental health condition marked by a long-term pattern of distrust and suspicion of others without adequate reason to be suspicious (paranoia). People with PPD often believe that others are trying to demean, harm or threaten them.
Paranoid personality disorder (PPD) is a personality disorder characterized by paranoia, and a pervasive, long-standing suspiciousness and generalized mistrust of others. People with this disorder may be hypersensitive, easily insulted, and habitually relate to the world by vigilant scanning of the environment for clues or suggestions that may validate their fears or biases. They are eager observers and they often think they are in danger and look for signs and threats of that danger, potentially not appreciating other interpretations or evidence.
Symptoms and Causes
❖ They tend to be guarded and suspicious and have quite constricted emotional lives. Their reduced capacity for meaningful emotional involvement and the general pattern of isolated withdrawal often lend a quality of loneliness to their life experience. People with PPD may have a tendency to bear grudges, suspiciousness, tendency to interpret others' actions as hostile, persistent tendency to self-reference, or a tenacious sense of personal right. They have a pattern of irrational suspicion and mistrust of others, interpreting motivations as malevolent.
❖ People with this disorder can be paranoid and have difficulty being understood by others, as they often have odd or eccentric modes of speaking and an unwillingness and inability to form and maintain close relationships.
❖ People with paranoid personality disorder (PPD) are always on guard, believing that others are constantly trying to demean, harm or threaten them. These generally unfounded beliefs, as well as their habits of blame and distrust, interfere with their ability to form close or even workable relationships. People with PPD severely limit their social lives.
❖ Paranoid personality disorder is primarily associated with the ICD-11 trait domains Negative affectivity. Tendency to experience a broad range of negative emotions forms the central element of negative affectivity. In people with a personality disorder diagnosis, this typically means that they experience a broad range of negative emotions with a frequency and intensity that others judge as being out of proportion to the situation.
❖ Common negative emotions includes following anxiety, worry, sadness, fear, anger, hostility guilt and shame. The person often experiences emotional liability with accompanying difficulties in emotional self-regulation they are often easily distressed and it takes them longer than average for their emotions to return to their baseline levels.
❖ Insular paranoid including avoidant featuresreclusive, self-sequestered, hermitical; self-protectively secluded from omnipresent threats and destructive forces; hyper vigilant and defensive against imagined dangers.
❖ It likely involves a combination of environmental and biological factors. Paranoid personality disorder to be modestly heritable and to share a portion of its genetic and environmental risk factors.
REFLECTION
In the light of the Quran and Seerah of Holy Prophet PBUH it is crystal clear that the “Al Bayinah” has clearly guided and directed human beings that everything is written by Allah SWT before bring it into being. This is the right perspective regarding human beings behavior and their psychological disposition in life instead of Paranoid Personality Disorder. A verse of the Qur’an, Verse NO. 22 of Surah Al-Hadid refers to this right perspective of human beings regarding their behavior and psychological disposition in life.
مَاۤ اَصَابَ مِنۡ مُّصِیۡبَۃٍ فِی الۡاَرۡضِ وَ لَا فِیۡۤ اَنۡفُسِکُمۡ اِلَّا فِیۡ کِتٰبٍ مِّنۡ قَبۡلِ اَنۡ نَّبۡرَاَہَا ؕ اِنَّ ذٰلِکَ عَلَی اللّٰہِ یَسِیۡرٌ ﴿ۚۖ۲۲﴾
No calamity ˹or blessing˺ occurs on earth or in yourselves without being ˹written˺ in a Record before we bring it into being. This is certainly easy for Allah.
JAWAD WASEEM
