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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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Madison McEwing

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

By: Madison McEwing

Effects on the Brain

Paranoid Personality Disorder

Effects on the Individual's Mental State

What is it?

  • Individuals feel extreme suspicion and mistrust towards those around them
  • No real “evidence” or reason to be suspicious
  • Affects 2.3–4.4% of people

How does Paranoid Personality Disorder affect one's intimate relationships?

http://neurofeedbackalliance.org/brain-regions-and-neurofeedback/

(Mental Health)

(Haycock, 2012)

  • No concrete information on how the brain is affected by Paranoid Personality Disorder

  • Suggested that Frontal and Parietal Lobes are affected

  • Experiment found that subjects with Schizotypal Personality Disorder had less grey matter in widespread temporal, frontal, and parietal regions of the brain than those in the control group

  • Areas where there was a deficit in grey matter could be linked to the negative symptoms that accompany Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Outline:

https://www.promises.com/what-we-treat/paranoid-personality-disorder/

https://beatingtrauma.com/2017/10/04/rethinking-paranoia/

(Arehart-Treichel, 2013)

https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.pn.2013.4a1

  • Believes partner is cheating

  • Believes partner is going to break up with them

  • Believes partner has an ulterior motive to dating them

  • Feels inferior and unwanted

http://www.yourbeautyadvisor.com/2017/05/how-to-ground-yourself-when-you-feel-anxious/

Paranoid Personality Disorder

How does Paranoid Personality Disorder affect one’s intimate relationships?

  • What is Paranoid Personality Disorder?
  • The individual's mental state
  • The individual's actions
  • Treatment for the individual
  • Effect's on the individual's partner
  • Treatment for the partner

Impacts how the individual

  • Views the relationship
  • Acts within the relationship
  • Deals with treating the disorder
  • Part of "Cluster A"

  • Characterized by eccentric thinking

  • Also includes Schizoid Personality Disorder and Schizotypal Personality Disorders

(Mental Health)

(Haycock, 2012)

https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/103371753927656219/?lp=true

https://www.talkspace.com/blog/when-does-normal-anxiety-become-a-mental-illness/man-anxiety-emotion-illness-feature_1320w_jr-1/

https://careersinpsychology.org/psychotherapy-careers/

https://opmed.doximity.com/articles/why-psychotherapy-training-shouldn-t-be-part-of-psychiatry-residency-22e1d4e0-1537-4e9a-b4b6-c07a62956967

Effects on the Individual's Mental State

Effects on the Individual's Actions

References

I hope you enjoyed!

https://www.rd.com/health/conditions/living-with-anxiety/

  • Won't confide
  • Question and accuse
  • Hold grudges
  • Lack of humour
  • Controlling
  • Strict rules
  • No privacy
  • Look dissatisfied in the relationship
  • Believe casual comments are hidden remarks, insults, or evidence

  • Feel worthless

  • Feel like their partner doesn't truly love them

  • Mistrust in partner

  • Believe partner will betray them

  • Alone in their thoughts

Arehart-Treichel, J. (2013, April 5). Schizotypal Personality Disorder Linked to Brain Changes. Retrieved March 26, 2019, from https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.pn.2013.4a1

Grande, Todd L. “What is Paranoid Personality Disorder?” Youtube, uploaded by Dr. Todd Grande, 12 December 2017, https://www.you tube.com/watch?v=poOrPFmCQFk.

Haycock, Dean A. "Paranoid Personality Disorder." The Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Health, edited by Kristin Key, 3rd ed., vol. 2, Gale, 2012, pp. 1116-1121. Health & Wellness Resource Center, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX4013200341/HWRC?u=miss91533&sid=HWRC&xid=35db1e60. Accessed 23 Mar. 2019.

Mental Health: Paranoid Personality Disorder. (n.d.). Retrieved March 23, 2019, from https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/paranoid-personality-disorder#1

Navarro, J. (2016, March 14). The Paranoid Partner. Retrieved March 23, 2019, from https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/spycatcher/201603/the-paranoid-partner

Nowak, L. (2018, July 3). Paranoid Personality Disorder and Relationships: Moving Past Fear, Together. Retrieved March 23, 2019, from https://www.bridgestorecovery.com/blog/paranoid-personality-disorder-and-relationships-moving-past-fear-together/

http://mens-alive.com/yoram-yasur-paranoid-disorder/

(Navarro, 2016)

https://www.disorders.org/personality-disorders/paranoid-schizoid-schizotypal/paranoid-personality-disorder-overview-treatment/

https://dupontdental.com/dealing-with-dental-anxiety/

(Mental Health)

Treatment

Effects on the Individual's Partner

Treatment

  • Treat with compassion and understanding
  • Set boundaries
  • Do some research
  • Thinks the individual is unhappy
  • Feel discouraged
  • Think the individual is rude or ungrateful
  • Lead to fighting
  • Sense the lack of trust
  • Feel trapped or controlled

(Nowak, 2018)

(Haycock, 2012)

Psychotherapy

(Grande, 2017).

https://www.talkspace.com/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-couples-therapy/

https://jryanfuller.com/services/couples-therapy-services/couples-therapy/

Thank you for listening :)

https://www.today.com/health/marriage-stress-can-contribute-weight-gain-study-finds-t40066

https://www.india.com/lifestyle/5-signs-that-your-relationship-is-way-too-immature-2400869/

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/192621.php

To Conclude

  • Medication is not a large focus

  • Learn ways to improve social and learning skills

  • Therapist must be transparent

The Individual's Partner

(Mental health)

  • How they view the relationship
  • How they view the individual
  • Their actions
  • How they cope with their partner having Paranoid Personality Disorder
  • There are many hardships
  • Affect the individual's thoughts and actions
  • Individual's partner's thoughts and actions are affected
  • The individual and partner need to take steps in order to help cope
  • There's hope for the relationship to make improvements

(Haycock, 2012)

https://www.rd.com/health/wellness/psychologists-vs-psychiatrists/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/friendship-20/201709/should-you-go-couples-therapy

http://www.archstonerecovery.com/starting-that-important-conversation-with-someone-struggling-with-addiction/

http://counselmevancouver.com/couples-therapy/

http://socialworkexamreview.blogspot.com/2015/02/family-therapy-for-couples.html