Is it normal that i have a very bad fear of robbers?

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Until recently, I figured that I might be schizophrenic because of how paranoid I am about break ins/people coming after me and so on. When at home I constantly check out the window for parked cars, keep my eyes out for suspicious looking people, and have a hidden loaded gun in all the rooms the I frequent the most.

Then I started thinking, when did this start? And I remembered a time when I was little that my friends older sister and 1 of her friends staged a robbery while I was spending the night. Her friend made loud banging/crashing noises from outside and my friends sister made us hide in a closet in pitch black The whole time we could hear fighting and banging and so on, for over an hour. And it seemed 100% real, and they took it way to far to scare us. Do you think that this could be the source of my paranoia. INN to get PTSD or bad fears after an event like that?

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  • Blue_Velvet
    12 years ago

    It sounds delusional. Looked up in wikipedia and found this info: Persecutory delusions are the most common type of delusions and involve the theme of being followed, harassed, cheated, poisoned or drugged, conspired against, spied on, attacked, or obstructed in the pursuit of goals. Persecutory delusions are a condition in which the affected person believes - wrongly – they are being persecuted. Specifically, they have been defined as containing two central elements:[12][page needed]

    The individual thinks that harm is occurring, or is going to occur.
    The individual thinks that the persecutor has the intention to cause harm.
    According to the DSM-IV-TR, persecutory delusions are the most common form of delusions in schizophrenia, where the person believes they are "being tormented, followed, tricked, spied on, or ridiculed."[13] In the DSM-IV-TR, persecutory delusions are the main feature of the persecutory type of delusional disorder. When the focus is to remedy some injustice by legal action, they are sometimes called "querulous paranoia".

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  • zchristian
    12 years ago

    Schizophrenic? So your seeing things that isnt there?

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