Cush Jumbo

Most of my friends are not actors. Most people have an idea of what an actor's life is, and it's pure glamour and excitement: it's easy and free and everyone loves you. But with a certain level of fame, there's a real level of paranoia and depression that comes with what you do, that nobody talks about.

English Actress

Amelie Nothomb

I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.

Belgian Writer

Christopher Wylie

Cambridge Analytica sought to identify mental vulnerabilities in voters and worked to exploit them by targeting information designed to activate some of the worst characteristics in people, such as neuroticism, paranoia and racial biases.

Canadian Businessman

Elias Canetti

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

Swiss Author

Emma Stone

I just live my life how I live as a person. I certainly am not, like, a saint or an angel by any means. I'm not anything like that. But I live just how I live. I mean, I have a little paranoia, but that's about it.

American Actress

Kurt Vile

When I leave a recording session, there is usually a lot of paranoia or superstition on my part, like I'm afraid to hear what we've done.

American Musician

Tyrone Hayes

The secret to a happy, successful life of paranoia is to keep careful track of your persecutors.

American Scientist

Billy Joel

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

Steven Wilson

We live in a world dominated by fear and paranoia.

English Musician

Hunter S. Thompson

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

American Journalist

Paranoia implies a distrust that goes beyond normal caution and can hint at irrationality.

Excessive Suspicion

Paranoia can describe a symptom of suspicion without the presence of a mental health diagnosis.

Not Always Illness

Using 'paranoia' can imply that concerns are unfounded or exaggerated.

Negative Connotation

This context of paranoia refers to a psychological condition, not typical, transient fears.

Mental Health Issue

Paranoia as a mental condition is identified by professionals, not to be self-diagnosed lightly.

Requires Diagnosis

In medical context, paranoia severely impacts life, beyond ordinary worry or fear.

Serious Implications

 resulting in erratic mood changes. At the top of the brain, they cause paranoia and hallucinations, and once they reach the brain's rear, the plaques and tangles work together to erase the mind's deepest memories. Eventually the control centers governing heart rate and breathing are overpowered as well resulting in death.

What is Alzheimer's...

 you've probably had this experience over and over. So trust your intuition that it's not you bringing paranoia to the workplace, that these kind of stereotypes and otherisms are rife and alive. I think that's the first thing. And then the second thing is having these layers of support

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 Instead of saying it's all about winning a competition, people will realize success is really more about contribution. I believe that the most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed. And if we can spread that belief, we can actually turn paranoia upside down.

Are you a giver or a...

 experienced this kind of sudden profound plunge into deep depression via anxiety sort of bordering on paranoia i just felt awful it was just like going down this kind of spiral my whole reason for being there felt ridiculous you know this book i was trying to write felt

Anxious? Blame the...

 You see, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at a young age, and the lyrics of the song describe the mental anguish and exhaustion for life of minorities in America dealing with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, loneliness, suicidal ideation and paranoia.

How Hip-Hop Can Make...

 So then you have a lot of paranoia about what's coming next, and that's part of the founding ethos, is really worrying about what's coming next. So that's an advantage. And then in terms of the culture, it's very big on freedom and responsibility.

How Netflix changed...

 infinite space to create privacy you know I feel safe here you live in terror with this paranoia of terrorism this is a very safe place you don't know what the rest of the world looks like so I go

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 why shouldn't they believe it it's real except for a few tiny things we reconstructed scenes the person who helped create the creature his special effects expert wild paranoia against

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 They were the victims of paranoia about the supernatural, misdirected religious fervor— and a justice system that valued repentance over truth.

What really happened...

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