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firemonkey
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03 Apr 2017, 2:25 pm

Once you have a diagnosis of paranoia it's very difficult to get people to accept you may be on the spectrum. This is because of lazy thinking where all symptoms are seen to be attributable to the paranoia.



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03 Apr 2017, 2:42 pm

Have you been diagnosed with paranoia?



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03 Apr 2017, 2:46 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
Have you been diagnosed with paranoia?


Paranoid PD. Am prone to paranoia but don't fit the descriptors of people with it.



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03 Apr 2017, 3:28 pm

firemonkey wrote:
Once you have a diagnosis of paranoia it's very difficult to get people to accept you may be on the spectrum. This is because of lazy thinking where all symptoms are seen to be attributable to the paranoia.


Thats me screwed then :lol: . I haven't been Dx with paranoia but I do suffer from what I believe is paranoia or referential thinking


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