To the editor — The “only thing we have to fear is fear itself!” - Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This is one of the most striking quotations ever uttered by a U.S. president; yet with great trepidation, ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Being paranoid carries a pretty negative connotation. We imagine a fragile-looking guy cautiously meandering the streets, maybe right up ...

“Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.” So begins Franz Kafka’s The Trial, a novel Kafka worked on between 1914 and 1915 but never ...

Paranoia is not simply synonymous with fear. It's yet another psychiatric term misrepresented and misunderstood by society at large that seeps into clinical work. More than once I've had to remind a ...

An episode of The Simpsons provided my first introduction to paranoia. The episode featured Bart going through what we would clinically call a substance-induced psychotic break. The not-so-clinical ...

The largest ever study of the effects of the main psychoactive component of cannabis suggests that it can cause paranoia in vulnerable individuals “I would not feel so alone,” sang Bob Dylan back in ...