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One in three of us suffer paranoid fears
Men and women are increasingly being plagued by paranoid thoughts, psychologists have found.
According to researchers, one in three people in the UK regularly suffers paranoid or suspicious fears that other people intend to harm them.
This level of paranoia is much higher than previously suspected and means that paranoid thoughts may well be almost as common as depression or anxiety.
Clinical psychologists at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, interviewed over 1,200 people as to whether they had thoughts about others doing them harm.
The study found that over 40 per cent of people regularly worry that negative comments are being made about them.
Twenty-seven per cent think that people deliberately try to irritate them while 20 per cent worry about being observed or followed.
A further 10 per cent think that someone 'has it in for them', while 5 per cent worry that there is a conspiracy to harm them. Dr Daniel Freeman, one of the leading international researchers on paranoia, said the research highlights the surprising extent of paranoia amongst the UK population and the distress that such thoughts can cause.
He said yesterday: "We were astonished at how common paranoia and suspicion are amongst the population and that these thoughts may be almost as common as anxious or depressed thinking.
"Understandably there are certain instances when it is important to practice caution, such as taking money from a cash machine without alerting too much attention and walking down a poorly-lit street at night.
"Following last year's London bombings, it is natural that underground train travellers are more vigilant than before.
"However our research demonstrates that there can be a tendency to exaggerate our fears."
The senior lecturer in clinical psychology added: ""Our study shows just how many of us are worrying - probably unnecessarily - about something that might not happen instead of getting on with the more enjoyable and productive parts of our lives.
"What we also found in our study was that these suspicious thoughts can cause real distress.
"Our research has highlighted this trend - until recently we had little idea of the extent of the problem, and little sense of how to help people overcome their fears."
Dr Freeman said that in the past, paranoid thinking was generally thought to occur only in people with severe mental illness.
This was partly because there was a reticence among the general population to talk about paranoid thoughts.
He added that there are now very effective ways of reducing unfounded suspiciousness such as behaviour therapy and self-help techniques.
These have been published in a book - Overcoming Paranoid and Suspicious Thoughts, which he has co-authored with Professor Philippa Garety (Corr).
Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of the mental health charity Sane, said yesterday: "It is important to recognise how common the symptoms of mental illness can be, which can include feelings of paranoia and anxiety.
"But it is also important to remember that there is an enormous difference between people having very mild feelings of paranoia and people who are ill with paranoia."
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Also free speech has now become illegal, we have to think before speaking in case we may offend someone, even if that someone is not around to hear us. This is not exaggeration or paranoia, this is fact and what this country has now been reduced to.
- N B, England
What you mean is that more people are starting to realise what a toilet this country has become and that it is being done by design.
- Ryk, London
I just stumbled upon this article and think that the conceptualization of paranoid symptoms as depression is brilliant. It just makes perfect sense.
As for the 5 earlier comments, this phenomena is not just in the U.K.
Good luck with your research. I think it will have far-reaching impact.
