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Paranoia

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deliriumnoun	(medicine) A temporary mental state with a sudden onset, usually reversible, including symptoms of confusion, inability to concentrate, disorientation, anxiety, and sometimes hallucinations. Causes can include dehydration, drug intoxication, and severe infection.
madnessnoun	The state of being mad; insanity; mental disease.
delusionnoun	A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.
mistrustnoun	Lack of trust or confidence; distrust, untrust.
anxietynoun	An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event.
warinessnoun	vigilance or the condition of being alert
suspicionnoun	The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
distrustnoun	To put no trust in; to have no confidence in.
insecuritynoun	A lack of confidence in oneself.
misgivingnoun	doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
phobianoun	An irrational, abnormal, or obsessive fear (of something).
jitterinessnoun	The state of being jittery
hypervigilancenoun	An enhanced state of sensory sensitivity accompanied by an exaggerated intensity of behaviors whose purpose is to detect threats.
fearfulnessnoun	The quality of being fearful.
psychosisnoun	(psychology) A severe mental disorder, sometimes with physical damage to the brain, marked by a deranged personality and a distorted view of reality.
obsessionnoun	An idea that engenders a compulsive or irrational preoccupation, or the preoccupation thereby engendered.
neurosisnoun	(dated, pathology; current in psychology and philosophy) A mental disorder, less severe than psychosis, marked by anxiety or fear which differ from normal measures by their intensity, which disorder results from a failure to compromise or properly adjust during the developmental stages of life, between normal human instinctual impulses and the demands of human society.
jumpinessnoun	The state of being jumpy.
apprehensionnoun	Anticipation, especially of unfavorable things such as dread or fear or the prospect of something unpleasant in the future.
guardednessnoun	The state or condition of being guarded.