‘Paranoia’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist, Page 11

Q: My son who is 21 got into a Ouija Board and since has had some really off the wall ideas that people are with him… He sits by himself, as if he is talking to someone. This weekend has been extremely bad. He has hardly eaten. He goes upstairs and sits on our deck [...]

Q: My fiance’s mother is having serious paranoid episodes. She has always had some form of paranoia, but her doctor has given her new pain medication for her back and it has triggered full paranoia. She is convinced people are in her attic waiting to come down and attack her; she’s called the police several [...]

Q: Is demonic possession possible, and do you believe it could happen?

A: Psychiatric illness has been present for thousands of years. During those years, the symptoms were thought to be related to demonic possession, a disturbance of “humors”, tree spirits, etc. Modern psychiatry and psychology recognize that symptoms and behaviors once felt to be related [...]