Most of us have little occasion to crack open the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders," the mental health profession's guidebook for classifying mental health problems, particularly when talking about insurance technology.
But if we were to scan that hefty tome and then focus on Number 301.0, we would read about something called Paranoid Personality Disorder. Basically, it describes someone who shows a pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others, interpreting their motives as malevolent.
Among other things, such an individual suspects–without sufficient basis–that others are exploiting, harming or deceiving them, and reads hidden negative or threatening meanings into apparently benign remarks or events.
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