Much depends on the state of brain health. After all, this organ perceives, analyzes and remembers information, thinks it over, draws conclusions and conclusions. If it is affected, its functionality will inevitably be affected. Thinking disorders lead to various signs of diseases, which themselves can be divided into several types. Treatment is predominantly medicinal when it comes to organic causes of thought disorder. One of his types of disorders is paranoia.
What it is? This is a serious disorder that consists of delusional ideas that a person believes. Delusional ideas are predominantly negative in nature. A person becomes suspicious, doubtful, and inadequately perceives the surrounding reality. Naturally, this affects his behavior.
Self-treatment is completely refuted by specialists from the psychiatric help website psymedcare.ru. Paranoia cannot be cured with improvised methods. It is best to place the patient in the hands of specialists who will carry out different treatment methods.
Content
- 1. History
- 2 Epidemiology
- 3 International Classification of Diseases 3.1 ICD-9
- 3.2 ICD-10
- 5.1 Alcohol paranoia
- 5.12.1 Acute expansive paranoia
Symptoms and signs of paranoid syndrome
Medical experts have identified a number of symptoms that characterize paranoia:
- hostility;
- intolerance to the opinions of others;
- suspicion;
- mistrust;
- passion for strange ideas;
- rave;
- obsessive thoughts;
- megalomania;
- hallucinations;
- unreasonable jealousy.
The paranoid person believes that other people are in conflict because of envy or a desire to reduce the dignity of the patient’s personality. As the condition progresses, distrust, suspicion, jealousy, and vindictiveness become more pronounced. In some cases, the condition stabilizes, the exacerbation of which is provoked by traumatic events.
History[ | ]
The term “paranoia” was coined by Carl Ludwig Kahlbaum in 1863[7]. Emil Kraepelin (1912, 1915) described paranoia as an independent painful form, excluding from it cases of paraphrenia and psychogenic querulence [7]. For a long time, paranoia was considered in classical psychiatry as an independent mental disorder. In Soviet and Russian psychiatry it was also customary to distinguish paranoid syndrome with paranoid delusions. However, Vasily Gilyarovsky wrote that only a small part of diseases characterized by paranoid symptoms are classified as paranoia[8]. Referring to Kraepelin, he pointed out that 40% of diseases characterized by paranoid symptoms are related to schizophrenia, a little more than this - to paraphrenia, the rest - to paranoia[8].
The causes of paranoia, like other endogenous psychopathological disorders, are unknown.
Signs and symptoms of paranoia
A person suffering from paranoia is driven by an overvalued idea, that is, a situation or opinion about the world or people around him. If a person is convinced of something, then he believes in it unconditionally. Sometimes his faith is so strong that the people around him initially believe in what he tells them. However, only over time it becomes clear that the person is delusional, talking about something that does not exist.
Paranoia causes a change in a person's attitude towards the world around him. He becomes jealous, suspicious, doubtful, touchy, distrustful. By the way, paranoia forces a person to develop the plot of his delirium. He not only thinks that he is being persecuted or that they are making insidious plans against him, but he also develops the plot. Often, absolutely all people who are close to the patient are suspected.
A person believes that everyone is against him. He practically loses the ability to forgive insults (he is often offended over trifles), and also has a negative attitude towards criticism addressed to him.
Symptoms of paranoia are:
- Low mental and physical activity.
- Aggression.
- Poor attention.
- Changing the attitude towards people around you, including loved ones, to negative and suspicious.
- Distrust of the world, negative attitude towards it.
- Changing the perception of analyzers.
- Reluctance to communicate with people.
- Decreased emotionality.
- Obsessive states: hypochondria, fears, neurasthenia, etc.
- Incorrect interpretation of surrounding reality.
Paranoia is a violation of thinking and perception of the surrounding world, which affects the words and actions of the person himself. The most important symptom is delirium, which is constant. The patient cannot solve the simplest problems of life. On the one hand, he is subject to a delusional state, and on the other, he has no ideas or thoughts at all.
The perception of the world by analyzers is changing. Hearing suffers because a person begins to hear the inaudible. He also begins to see and feel what is not really there. Even the patient’s gait and posture change: he becomes unnatural, stiff, awkward.
International Classification of Diseases[ | ]
ICD-9[ | ]
In the International Classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death, 9th revision (ICD-9), paranoia was a separate category and was described as a rare chronic psychosis, characterized by the gradual development of logically constructed, systematized delusions (delusions of grandeur (paranoid prophet or inventor), delusions of persecution or hypochondria), without the accompanying disorganization of thinking of the schizophrenic type and hallucinations[4]. in classification: 297.1297.1.
Excluded: paranoid personality change (301.0301.0).
ICD-10[ | ]
In the version of ICD-10 adapted for use in the Russian Federation, there is a subcategory of delusional disorder F22.01xx - paranoia (it also includes “paranoid personality development”). The categories F22.8 and F22.88 “other chronic delusional disorders” include a querulant form of paranoia[9]. In the official ICD-10, issued by the World Health Organization, paranoia is not classified as a separate category; it corresponds to delusional disorder (22.022.0).
In mild cases, similarities to paranoia speak of paranoid personality disorder (60.060.0)[10]. The term “paranoid” means “paranoia-like” (from paranoia + -oid - Ancient Greek εἶδος - “similarity”). Thus, the meaning is that it is a “paranoia-like personality disorder.” There is also a form of schizophrenia similar to paranoia - paranoid schizophrenia. In schizophrenia, the paranoid (transient) stage of delusion may precede the paranoid stage. Also in the ICD-10 adapted for Russia there are headings F22.03 - paranoid schizophrenia with sensitive delusions of relationships and F22.82 - paranoid schizophrenia [9].
Causes of signs of paranoia and treatment of the disorder
The causes of paranoid disorder are not fully understood, which complicates not only the diagnosis, but also the treatment of the disease. There are no specific tests or imaging technologies to diagnose paranoia. The diagnosis is made based on a detailed interview with the patient himself, as well as his family and friends.
Psychotherapy and medication are used to treat paranoia.
The selection of methods for treating paranoia is carried out based on the root cause of the development of the disorder, which may be:
- heredity;
- diseases, pathologies and brain injuries;
- addiction (alcohol and/or drug addiction);
- disorders of protein synthesis;
- age-related changes in the brain;
- childhood psychological trauma;
- long-term medication use;
- social isolation.
At risk are:
- addicted to drugs;
- genetically predisposed people;
- aged people;
- individuals prone to mental disorders;
- men over 20 years old.
The course of treatment is selected individually and may include:
- psychotherapy (individual, family, cognitive-behavioral);
- medications (antidepressants, tranquilizers, sedatives, antipsychotics, antipsychotropic drugs).
Experts urge you not to ignore possible signs of paranoia and promptly seek help from a professional.
This is a type of mental disorder in which a person stops interpreting the surrounding reality the way healthy people do. A person becomes obsessed with a certain idea (it is called overvalued or delusional). Paranoia is not accompanied by hallucinations and, without treatment, lasts a long time with alternating exacerbations and remissions (symptom subsidence).
An accurate diagnosis of paranoia is a consultation with a psychiatrist and additional examinations that he will prescribe.
How to define paranoia? Diagnostic methods include:
- Clinical and anamnestic examination - a conversation with a psychotherapist, assessment of mental status, the doctor assesses the causes of the disorder and its severity.
- Pathopsychological examination - performed by a clinical psychologist. The specialist identifies thinking disorders specific to mental illness and describes them in the conclusion (important for differential diagnosis and final diagnosis).
- Instrumental and laboratory methods include Neurotest and. These are modern ways to use blood tests and physiological indicators to prove a person has a serious mental disorder and assess its severity.
A person's behavior changes. Due to thinking disorders, ideas are formed that completely absorb his life. He builds long, complex and, as it seems to him, logically connected chains, which he shares with family and friends. A person can talk for hours about himself, about his “persecutors,” or his “great discoveries.” Relatives do not believe the person, and he stops trusting them.
In the future, the situation worsens. A paranoid person becomes scandalous in everyday life, constantly quarrels with loved ones, and begins to see a hidden meaning in what is happening, unkind to him. Gradually, he becomes more sensitive to changes in the emotional state of those around him, but interprets these changes incorrectly: any gesture, look, or laugh has a negative connotation in a person’s understanding and mortally insults him.
It is very difficult to convince a person with paranoia that the problem is in his head and that he needs to seek help from a doctor.
At work, such people behave actively, perform their duties conscientiously, but are constantly dissatisfied. One of the main symptoms of the disease of paranoia is clearly manifested: a person criticizes everything around him, is dissatisfied with everything, but never admits that something might be wrong with himself.
From a human point of view, he shows no signs of paranoia. On the contrary, it is everyone else who is trying to deceive, humiliate and insult him; they do not believe in his genius, capabilities and strength. Sometimes paranoid people even buy weapons to cope with “ill-wishers.”
Forms of paranoia[ | ]
Alcohol paranoia[ | ]
See also: Alcohol paranoid
Alcohol paranoia (paranoia alcoholica) is a chronic delusional psychosis developing in alcoholics due to alcoholic encephalopathy, usually with systematized delusions of jealousy, sometimes with delusions of persecution [12]. Alcohol paranoia occurs in a relatively small proportion of patients with chronic alcohol dependence, and most often in men[13].
Involutionary paranoia[ | ]
Involutional paranoia (paranoia involutiva) is a psychosis that occurs at the age of 45-60 years[3], in women during menopause (between 40-50 years), characterized mainly by systematized delusions[12]. The onset is usually acute, and the course is long-term and stationary[12]. Delusional ideas are usually in the form of delusions of persecution, relationships, jealousy, and less often - delusions of grandeur[3]. K. Kleist attributed involutional paranoia to the group of constitutional autochthonous psychoses, which are characterized by a non-progressive course [12] [14].
Megalomaniacal paranoia[ | ]
Megalomaniacal paranoia (from ancient Greek μέγας - big, and ancient Greek μανία - madness; paranoia megalomanica) or paranoia of greatness is a type of paranoia that is characterized by systematized delusional ideas of greatness (most often reformation and discovery) [3].
Inventory paranoia[ | ]
Inventory paranoia (from the Latin inventor - inventor; paranoia inventoria) is a type of megalomaniacal paranoia, which is characterized by delusional ideas of invention or discovery[3].
Reform paranoia[ | ]
Reform paranoia (from Latin reformo - transform, change; paranoia reformatoria) is a type of megalomaniac paranoia, which is characterized by systematized delusional ideas about radical changes in the social order, transformation of the world, changes in science or the like [3].
Paranoia of jealousy[ | ]
Paranoia of jealousy (paranoia erevnatoria) is a type of paranoia that is characterized by delusional ideas of adultery[3].
Religious paranoia[ | ]
Religious paranoia (paranoia religiosa) is a type of paranoia with religious content of delusional ideas [3].
Persuasive paranoia[ | ]
Persecutory paranoia (from Latin persequor, secutus sum - persistently follow, pursue; paranoia persecutoria) is a type of paranoia that is characterized by systematized delusional ideas of persecution [3].
Erotic paranoia[ | ]
Erotic paranoia (from ancient Greek ἐρωτικός - amorous, dedicated to love; paranoia erotica) is paranoia, which is characterized by the predominance of erotic delusions [3]. Erotic paranoia occurs predominantly in females aged 40-50 years [15].
Senile paranoia[ | ]
Senile paranoia (from Latin senilis - senile, characteristic of old age; paranoia senilis) - paranoia that develops in old age[3].
Querulant (querulyant) paranoia[ | ]
Querulant or querulant paranoia (from the Latin querulus - complainer, murmurer; paranoia querulans) is a form of paranoia, manifested in querulant delusional ideas [3].
The querulant form of paranoia is included in category 22.822.8 of ICD-10.
Suggestive delusional paranoia[ | ]
Suggestive-delusional paranoia is a variant of paranoia, which is characterized primarily by the predominance in the clinical picture of delusions of hypnotic charm, which was described by Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev in 1905 [3].
Sensitive (sensitive) paranoia[ | ]
Sensitive or sensitive paranoia (paranoia sensitiva) is a type of paranoia that is characterized by sensitive delusions [3].
Acute paranoia[ | ]
Acute paranoia (paranoia acuta; from Latin acutus - acute, transient, fleeting) - paranoia with sudden figurative or interpretive delusions of relation, grandeur or persecution [3].
Acute expansive paranoia[ | ]
Acute expansive paranoia (paranoia acuta expansiva; from Latin acutus and Latin expando - expand, spread) - paranoia with sudden expansive delusions, delusional ideas of greatness, power, reformation and discovery, as well as delusional ideas with religious content [3].
Causes of paranoia
Scientists call organic brain damage the main reasons for the development of paranoia. This usually occurs in old age or under the influence of an infectious lesion. Such diseases include Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's, vascular diseases, and atherosclerosis. However, illnesses may occur that lead to temporary paranoia. That is, with recovery from the disease, the person becomes normal again. Such painful conditions are caused by amphetamines, alcohol, drugs, and medications.
It should be said that paranoia can occur in absolutely healthy people. The reasons are an incorrect perception of the surrounding world. You can be paranoid with a completely healthy body. It's either a habit or a way of thinking.
Most of the people who are considered healthy members of society today actually have some signs of psychological illness. Just because the symptoms are not obvious and pronounced, people are not treated, but simply experience their illness. There is one main sign that indicates that a person is mentally ill - problems of a constant and similar nature. If the same problems constantly arise in a person’s life, and he encounters situations that are similar to each other, then we are talking about psychological illness, when the individual himself provokes certain events in his life.
Let's consider 3 signs of a mentally healthy person:
- Subtle humor. This is not about laughing at someone falling down or laughing at any joke, no matter what it is. We are talking about prosaic humor, when a person is pleased and amused by completely earthly and simple jokes. This indicates proper function of the frontal region of the brain.
- 2-3 signature dishes. A person does not necessarily have to be a cook, but he has signature dishes that he cooks and eats with pleasure. This indicates a sense of responsibility and maturity.
- Favourite buisness. An individual has a hobby that he likes to do, but not to the point of fanaticism.
Signs of a mentally ill person:
- A sign of an aggressor is that he cannot stand looking at himself for a long time and looks away.
- Gloomy facial expression, “stony face” - a tendency to psychosis for any reason.
- Counts money down to the penny, is scrupulous about spending money, calculates how much it was spent on another person - greed and pathological jealousy. Often such people have problems with potency.
- Loud laughter with the head thrown back is a sign of a jealous person and a traitor.
- Passion for gambling indicates that a person wants to get everything at once, he does not care about other people’s opinions, does not show respect and believes that everyone owes him.
- Addiction to alcoholic beverages indicates low intelligence and despotism.
A person’s inability to establish harmonious and calm relationships with loved ones is a clear sign of mental disorder. Please note that we are talking about completely healthy-looking people who do not have pathological and pronounced symptoms. This refers to the early stages of disorders that rarely develop, but have an impact on a person’s behavior and character.
Development of paranoia[ | ]
In some cases, as the disease progresses, paranoia develops from overvalued ideas into delusions.
A clinical example of highly valuable ideas:
The patient, who wrote poems as a child, one of which was even published in a regional newspaper, begins to consider himself an extraordinary, original poet, a second Yesenin, who is ignored and not published out of envy and “surrounding ill will.” His whole life essentially turned into a chain of proof of his poetic talent. The patient constantly talks not about poetry, but about his place in it. He carries his published poem as evidence, reciting it appropriately and inappropriately, and easily discards all the counter-arguments of his interlocutors. Being a fanatic of his poetry, in all other aspects of life he reveals a completely adequate style of existence.
— V.V. Marilov, “General psychopathology”[16]:27-28
Another patient with paranoid syndrome, an engineer in the fishing industry, having made an “invention”, left the Far East, where he worked for a long time and productively, to Moscow. In Moscow, he planned to explain to the government that seafood was being irrationally spent in the country and that fish was being caught and disposed of incorrectly. The patient brought with him a fishing technique “taking into account the location of the stars.” He spent a long time going through various authorities, where they gradually stopped accepting him; gradually sank, began to live at train stations, in parks in the summer, but every day he continued to “punch through” his idea of fishing in a new way. According to the patient, his idea is worthy of comparison only with the Great French Revolution, and his wife, elderly parents and two small children who remained in Vladivostok did not worry him at all[16]:40.
Delusions of grandeur and persecution usually develop from overvalued ideas associated with an overestimation of one’s personality. The delusional system in paranoia remains unchanged for decades and does not lead to the formation of a schizophrenic defect [2].
Paranoia of jealousy usually begins in patients with dissatisfaction with the fact that the spouse flirts with members of the opposite sex, “deliberately” attracts them with her behavior, dances “emphatically cheekily,” “blushes when meeting them,” etc.[2] Then, after 2-4 years, delusion crystallizes, and suspicions of infidelity turn into an unshakable conviction of the spouse’s betrayal [2].
What is paranoia?
Paranoia is a thinking disorder in which a person suffers from delusions (mainly delusions of grandeur or persecution), which influence his behavior, which becomes inappropriate. The term was first introduced in 1863 by K. L. Kahlbaum. At first, paranoia was considered an independent disorder with paranoid syndrome.
Paranoia occurs in people with brain damage. That is why experts call its main causes degenerative disorders in the brain, which mainly occur in old age. Mild cases of paranoia are called paranoid personality disorder. In severe cases of persecutory delusions, it is already called isolated delusional disorder.
Paranoia is insanity, accompanied by constant delusions that are majestic or persecutory in nature, which entails a reassessment of one’s own judgments and the development of inappropriate behavior. A person becomes suspicious, conflictual, and even capable of committing rude acts.
Paranoia is a mental disorder that has the following distinctive features:
- An overvalued idea, often based on illogical delusional thoughts.
- Suspicion and distrust of others.
- Impaired mental activity.
- Increased sensitivity.
Paranoids often turn out to be very touchy and vindictive. This is due to the idea that guides them. It is often associated with delusions of grandeur or persecution. Conspiracies and ill will are seen all around, which causes distrust of others. We are not talking about hallucinations, emotional instability or pretentious behavior. A person can be socially and financially adapted and lead a normal life. However, it seems to him that people look at him too strangely, spread gossip about him and think something bad.
This idea is the most important for the paranoid, who now subordinates his life to it. He becomes sensitive to current events. He perceives almost every situation as a sign that points to something. We can say that we are talking about life in a movie, where the main character (a paranoid person) runs away from something, defends himself and even tries to save someone.
Such delusional ideas affect a person’s mental ability to think adequately, build logical connections that are not related to his personality, and see the real state of affairs. In a state of paranoia, a person becomes self-centered: the world revolves around him, people think only about him. The super value of an idea leads to the formation of convincing arguments that he uses when he proves his idea to other people. Since the person is not yet clinically ill and leads a social lifestyle, no one suspects his illness. He becomes so convincing that people begin to believe him until they see the illogicality of his judgments and delusions of his own grandeur.
Paranoia is not socially dangerous until the patient takes decisive action. Wanting to debunk a malicious conspiracy against him, he may begin to interfere and even ruin the lives of other people whom he suspects of unclean intentions. Often such actions lead to criminal acts, which the paranoid person plausibly justifies, misleading those who condemn him.
Treatment[ | ]
To treat paranoia, antipsychotics are used with a predominantly anti-delusional effect; psychotherapy of various directions is used much less often and only as a component of a complex effect. However, treating paranoia is difficult because sufferers often extend their suspicions to both the prescriber and the medications, and psychotherapy is perceived as another attempt to control their minds. Relatives and household members who are aware of the pathological nature of the process and openly declare the need for treatment are automatically included in the camp of “enemies”[11].
Treatment
In particular, the treatment of mental disorders such as schizophrenia and paranoia uses drug treatment with drugs:
- Neuroleptics;
- Antidepressants;
- Nootopes.
In the treatment of paranoia and schizophrenia, the following methods are often used:
- Chemotherapy;
- Electroconvulsive therapy;
- Psychotherapy.
Treatments usually take place in special medical institutions. Diseases can be lifelong; treatment in this case can only alleviate symptoms and help a person live in the outside world among people.
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Signs of paranoia in men
Signs of paranoia in men - a man’s behavior changes, he becomes obsessed with a specific idea.
Often this idea is jealousy. Any little thing becomes convincing evidence of a wife or girlfriend’s infidelity: a new dress, a slight delay at work, a missed call or a message from an unfamiliar number. Men become aggressive, behave hostilely with their partner, with men from her environment - potential “rivals” or “lovers”.
It happens that a man becomes convinced that his wife began to cheat on him a long time ago, and therefore he is now raising someone else’s child.
The delusion of over-talentedness is widespread. Symptoms and signs of paranoia in men in this case:
- excessive passion for your hobby, be it poetry, drawing, music;
- constant demonstration of creations to the public;
- a person without special education suddenly becomes interested in nuclear physics or serious philosophy;
- “superpowers” may appear - a person sees the future, heals terminally ill patients, telepathically communicates with an alien or afterlife world.
Such patients insist on their genius, and if someone does not agree with them, they consider him an ill-wisher and an envious person.
Symptoms of paranoia in men depend on the patient's specific idea. This may be a belief in persecution, a desire to cause harm to acquaintances or strangers, a pathological obsession with science or religion, delusions of jealousy or delusions of love, hypochondriacal ideas - then the man is convinced that he is terminally ill.
Paranoia in men is highly treatable. The main thing is to strictly follow the doctor’s recommendations and not stop taking your medications if the doctor insists on continuing therapy. The patient and his relatives must be prepared for a long course of treatment so that the symptoms of the disease go away for sure. .
Much depends on the state of brain health. After all, this organ perceives, analyzes and remembers information, thinks it over, draws conclusions and conclusions. If it is affected, its functionality will inevitably be affected. Thinking disorders lead to various signs of diseases, which themselves can be divided into several types. Treatment is predominantly medicinal when it comes to organic causes of thought disorder. One of his types of disorders is paranoia.
What it is? This is a serious disorder that consists of delusional ideas that a person believes. Delusional ideas are predominantly negative in nature. A person becomes suspicious, doubtful, and inadequately perceives the surrounding reality. Naturally, this affects his behavior.
Self-treatment is completely refuted by specialists on the psychiatric help website. Paranoia cannot be cured with improvised methods. It is best to place the patient in the hands of specialists who will carry out different treatment methods.
[edit] Symptoms
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SUDDENLY, there are a lot of thoughts in your head, thousands of them, forming an overvalued/delusional idea. All events are perceived by the patient as directed towards him, filled with deep meaning and interpreted in confirmation of a highly valuable idea, while those that contradict it are ignored. Actually, distrust and suspicion, as well as determination and pathological confidence in one’s rightness.
If paranoia acts as a symptom of schizophrenia, then the patient may begin to shoot at his imaginary enemies, which could be you, anon.
Forecast and prevention of paranoia
Paranoid syndrome in most cases has an unfavorable prognosis, because pathology refers to a lifelong condition. A personality disorder may enter a stage of long-term stabilization, but negative traits will become more acute as they age.
In case of a disorder caused by brain damage, the patient's condition depends on the course of the underlying disease. Chronic alcoholism is the cause of persistent impairment. A paranoid state develops favorably due to the use of psychoactive substances. In this case, the symptoms of the pathology quickly disappear.
A paranoid person also needs preventive action based on the reason for the formation of the pathology. Prevention of the onset of mental disorders consists of activities such as:
- maintaining a correct lifestyle;
- harmonization of personal relationships;
- making time for your own hobbies;
- visiting a psychologist when solving complex issues.
Prevention of exacerbation of paranoia includes a course of medications prescribed by a psychiatrist, timely examinations and visits to the doctor.
[edit] Known public paranoias
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Song about the subject; Teddy bear included. It would seem... Jesus is watching you
- The machinations of the special services
- The machinations of the Democrats
- The machinations of the communists
- The machinations of the capitalists
- The machinations of the Masons
- The machinations of the Jews
- The machinations of anti-Semites
- The machinations of the Tatars
- The machinations of the Russian Orthodox Church
- The machinations of Satanists
- The machinations of the fascists
- The machinations of the Nashists
- The machinations of journalists
- The machinations of terrorists
- The machinations of aliens
- American intrigues
- The machinations of the Tajiks
- The machinations of the Caucasians
- The machinations of homosexuals
- The machinations of the Chinese
- Troll intrigues
- The machinations of gihikomori
- Dulles' plan...
- ...and the consequences of its successful execution
- A crisis
- Swine flu and other illnesses
One thing is clear: they are hiding something from us. According to the “secret services” brand of paranoia, the only real intrigues are those of Islamic terrorists. The statement that “all these machinations are ultimately the machinations of ZOG” is an example of total paranoia with the dominant “paranoia of the Freemasons.” The rooting of the Tree of Delirium with such a powerful root is a difficult case, there is no cure.
