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Paranoid Personality Disorder

Mental health professionals define paranoia as excessive mistrust or fixed persecutory beliefs that others intend harm.

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Feb 1, 2026

What step-by-step graded exposure exercises do therapists use for gymnophobia or nudity anxiety?

(fear of nudity) is a stepwise therapeutic protocol that moves patients from low‑anxiety tasks (imagined or simulated nudity) toward real‑life encounters (changing rooms, partial then full undressing)...

Jan 22, 2026

If you know the end is coming, do you give up or push past your limits and try to do more than you thought you could?

When feels imminent, the impulse to surrender or to surge past limits is mediated by both biology and meaning: the body’s alarm system can signal real danger or false alarm, and whether to give up or ...