just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me

paranoid | American Dictionary

paranoid
adjective
us/ˈpær·əˌnɔɪd/
anxious because you do not feel you can trust others, or medical suffering from paranoia:
My husband is very paranoid about making sure everything’s locked.

Examples of paranoid

paranoid
Exactly how important abnormalities in personality functioning are in the aetiology and onset of late-life paranoid psychoses is unclear.
Undoubtedly, many of those attacks were groundless, paranoid and motivated by fear.
They are prone to brief losses of reality, transient hallucinatory, or illusory phenomena and paranoid states.
Not surprisingly therefore, paranoid personality traits and social isolation are frequent premorbid characteristics of elderly patients who develop late paraphrenia.
These patients also had a better outcome in terms both of institutionalization and ten-year survival compared with paranoid patients.
A polymorphism in the dopamine beta-hydroxylase gene is associated with ' paranoid ideation ' in patients with major depression.
Paranoid delusions and auditory hallucinations were the predominant features, with formal thought disorder, catatonic features and negative symptoms being uncommon.
It is hardly surprising that people who have been given a diagnosis of dementia often become suspicious and, on occasion, even paranoid.
Like paranoid rabbits, humans may possess adaptively biased inferential mechanisms.
That is, there is no need for arbitrary precision integers, even under paranoid correctness criteria.
Similar inhibitory deficits can be postulated for paranoid schizophrenia in sensory cortical association areas.
Many studies have supported the theory that the understanding of intention is impaired in patients with paranoid delusions.
The schizophrenia group included patients with the paranoid subtype (n=11), the undifferentiated subtype (n=8), and the residual subtype (n=4).
Only a paranoid scepticism could mandate checking in every case however simple that other, special considerations were not playing a role.
Only 11 (14%) described themselves as not experiencing a level of depressive or paranoid symptoms within the clinical range.
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