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Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs, or beliefs of conspiracy concerning a perceived threat towards oneself (i.e. the American colloquial phrase, "Everyone is out to get me").

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Paranoia is a useful blinker to keep people like you from going insane by considering ideas outside of your scope of comprehension so you should keep using it but people who can really think clearly have no need of that. But don't stop foreshortening the range of your thought by invoking such useful blinkers because it may be dangerous to your health and mental health.

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