paranoia

Postpartum psychosis, characterized by losing touch with reality and experiencing paranoia, delusions or hallucinations, is far rarer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

There’s little tension or drive, just shaggy scenes about paranoia, trust and hope.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Bauer pointed to the John Birch Society, an organization that engaged in paranoia reporting in the 1960s.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Nor will media literacy programs, stronger education about viruses, centralized hubs for medical information, “prebunking” campaigns, or community engagement programs—all good ideas from experts that still cannot meet the sheer force of our paranoia.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

I tried to quiet the paranoia and curled up on a wet towel, spread out on the deck of our yard.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

It’s an uncanny combination of paranoias and legitimate concerns, but it’s undeniably working.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2020

There is the idea that the dead never do wholly cross, staying on in memory, shaping our projections, paranoias, desires and dreams.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2018

For the few specialists who have looked closely, targeted individuals represent an alarming development in the history of mental illness: thousands of sick people, banded together and demanding recognition on the basis of shared paranoias.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2016

We study the mechanics of crime not to fan our paranoias, but, rather, to defuse them—to tether our imaginations to facts.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2015

I remembered the walls made of grain sacks and ammunition boxes, of my father’s fears and paranoias, his scriptures and prophecies.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover