All 10 Uses
paranoid
in
Educated, by Tara Westover
(Edited)
- The irony was that if Dad was bipolar—or had any of a dozen disorders that might explain his behavior—the same paranoia that was a symptom of the illness would prevent its ever being diagnosed and treated.
p. 30.1 *paranoia = excessive fear that others want to harm you
- All those years I was passing in and out of her kitchen, and she never told me what it had been like for her, watching her daughter shut herself away, walled in by phantoms and paranoias.
p. 30.3paranoias = excessive fears
- How the paranoia and fundamentalism were carving up my life, how they were taking from me the people I cared about and leaving only degrees and certificates—an air of respectability—in their place.
p. 30.8paranoia = irrational fear
- I devised a bizarre and ever evolving rubric by which I measured his love for me, and when he failed to meet it, I became paranoid.
p. 190.1paranoid = excessively anxious or fearful
- I was sitting in Psychology 101 when the professor read the symptoms aloud from the overhead screen: depression, mania, paranoia, euphoria, delusions of grandeur and persecution.
p. 207.5paranoia = excessive fear that others want to harm you
- I reached for some explanation and strange words came to mind, words I'd learned only minutes before: paranoia, mania, delusions of grandeur and persecution.
p. 210.3
- She said it had taken her years to convince Tyler to let her immunize their children, because some part of him still believed vaccines are a conspiracy by the Medical Establishment. ... How can he not see beyond their paranoia!
p. 249.2 *paranoia = irrational fear
- I remembered the walls made of grain sacks and ammunition boxes, of my father's fears and paranoias, his scriptures and prophecies.
p. 310.4paranoias = excessive fears
- My parents were one of the largest employers in the county, but from what I could tell Dad's mental state made it difficult for him to maintain employees long-term: when he had a fit of paranoia, he tended to fire people with little cause.
p. 323.1paranoia = excessive fear that others want to harm you
- It was perhaps in another such fit of paranoia that Dad fired my mother's sister Angie.
p. 323.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(paranoid used casually) excessively suspicious that others want to harm you; or excessively fearful
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(2)
(paranoid used clinically) suffering from a psychological disorder characterized by excessive distrust of others -- thinking "they are out to get me"
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)