AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Persecutory delusions are persistent, troubling, false beliefs that one is about to be harmed or mistreated by others in some way. These beliefs occur in some people with delusional disorder, a rare mental illness, and cause significant distress, including anxiety, depression, and fear.

Detailed explanation-3: -People with persecutory delusions believe that harm is going to occur and that other people intend for them to be harmed. People experiencing persecutory delusions may say things such as: “My neighbors break into my house at night and steal my clothes out of my closet."

Detailed explanation-4: -Symptoms of persecutory delusional disorder include extreme paranoia, fear, and worry about impending harm, despite the imagined threat being unproven, disproved, or impossible.

Detailed explanation-5: -In other words, they irrationally believe they’re being persecuted, sabotaged, or attacked. Persecutory delusions aren’t considered a mental illness on their own. Rather, they’re a symptom of other mental health conditions, including: schizoaffective disorder.