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...Scientology adherents - many charging that they were mentally or physically abused - have quit the church and criticized it at their own risk. Some have sued the church and won; others have settled for amounts in excess of $500,000. In various cases judges have labeled the church "schizophrenic and paranoid" and "corrupt, sinister and dangerous." (See "Scientology Trial in France: Can a Religion Be Banned...
...Paranoid friends of mine fear the government's sudden interest in ketchup has a sinister undertone. When the U.S. sets about exporting democracy and capitalism to troubled Eastern European and Third World countries, McDonald's restaurants are usually the first Western institutions established. Are we planning on choking hostile foreign leaders with our special "thicker" ketchup...
...madman theory seems a bit more respectable, intellectually, than simply calling the Iraqi a monster. Long-distance psychoanalyzing of Saddam has been going on for some time, particularly in the U.S. and Israel, with not very helpful results. He suffers from malignant narcissism. He craves challenges. He is paranoid, distrustful of everyone and everything. The root cause of the current gulf carnage can be traced to his unhappy childhood...
...baby's cry can invoke instant rage. Put in nonclinical terms, says psychiatrist Staten, the symptoms of PTSD are "like experiencing one's most threatening nightmares." A recent medical study found that the adrenaline levels of PTSD sufferers remain higher during hospital treatment than those of manic-depressives and paranoid schizophrenics...
...risk of sounding paranoid, they're everywhere...