Word: paranoia
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...Calm and softly spoken, McGorry has a way of making the experimental use of antipsychotics seem like the only responsible course. As executive director of the University of Melbourne?affiliated Orygen Youth Health, he sees patients aged 15 to 24 whose symptoms may include mild paranoia and social impairment. Fish oil and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) are sound first-up treatments, he says, but if they don't work it's unacceptable to wait for patients to slide into madness, though it's impossible to predict with certainty which ones will. "You've got to do something," McGorry says, meaning...
...arguing that this movie reaches the sublime (or muy Espanol) blackness that Pedro Almadovar attains at his best. But farce depends on solipsism and paranoia for its effectiveness. Its characters need to get lost in their own misunderstandings of a situation and then act out of them, in highly physical, door-slamming ways, causing a certain amount of physical - but not deadly - pain in the process. You'll amazed, I think, at just how much silliness clever filmmakers can cram into such a short time, just how how logically you can develop a variety of illogical premises before something akin...
...typical Finder novel (he has published seven so far, with 4.5 million books in print) reflects three or four months spent deep inside a corporate culture. Like an anthropologist, Finder gets to know the natives, interviewing CEOs as well as the rank and file. For Paranoia, he lived among the brilliant rebels of Apple and spent a week at engineering powerhouse Cisco. Why do these folks open up? Simple. "People like to talk about what they do for a living," says Finder. That candor gives the novels an authenticity critics applaud...
...breakthrough came in 2004 with Paranoia, set in a high-powered telecom firm in a fictional Silicon Valley locale. He followed Paranoia, his first New York Times best seller, with another, Company Man, about the old-line office-furniture industry. Finder had found his niche: John Grisham--like thrillers starring business people instead of lawyers. Finder is careful to explain, though, that his books rely on human emotion, not corporate scheming, for their drama. "They're not about high finance," he says. "They're a portrait of life in the corporate world, with regular people...
...first started off as just paranoia. It's like looking around you, there's 100 people: in cars, sitting down, standing up, walking, running, and [you think] they're all following you and they're all trying to hurt you. From that came the terrible mania, when I would be so happy that I just couldn't see straight, I couldn't do anything. For six months after my diagnosis of bipolar, I literally could not read, write or talk. When I would attempt to read the words would stumble off the page. I would try to write, my hands...