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Related to paranoid disorder: delusional disorder, shared paranoid disorder

disorder

(Abnormal condition), noun affliction, complaint, condition, disability, disease, distemper, handicap, illness, indisposition, infirmity, malady, sickness

disorder

(Lack of order), noun anarchism, anarchy, breach of peace, chaos, commotion, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, discomposure, dishevelment, disorderly conduct, disorganization, disturbance, fracas, irregularity, lack of regular order, muddle, pandemonium, racket, riot, slipshodness, tumult, tumultuousness, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, uproar
Associated concepts: breach of the peace, disorderly connuct

disorder

a disturbance of public order or peace. Its existence may trigger extended police powers.

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Whether paranoid disorder - or a predisposition to it - is inherited is not yet known.

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He points out that paranoia and paranoid disorders do not receive the same attention from professionals or the media as depression, in part because "paranoid individuals don't tend to show up complaining of paranoia like depressed patients do with their condition.