On a Thursday this past July, my husband and I drove to our county’s police academy training facility. A uniformed officer let us in. We were escorted through several hallways and into a conference ...

Type “Am I paranoid?” into Google, and you might find a load of thoughtful, expert advice mixed in with a bunch of weird, not-so-helpful links. If you are worried that entering those words into a ...

People who see meaning where there is none, like imagining one dot chasing another, may be showing early signs of paranoia or psychosis. Yale scientists found that such visual misperceptions are tied ...

Today, I live in a realistic world with a loving family, friends, and meaningful work. I enjoy performing on violin at church again and teaching piano lessons. I am financially stable, with money in ...

Kody Green started having auditory and visual hallucinations, as well as paranoia and delusions, during his freshman year of college. His symptoms drove him to drug abuse that ultimately landed him in ...

(CNN) — For Henry Cockburn, the onset of schizophrenia felt like pure common sense. It was February 2002, and the 20-year-old art student had strayed from the University of Brighton to satisfy his ...

The TV was talking to me. I was in the midst of a delusion that the news anchors on CNN were operatives of a shadow government run by the Clintons. Every time I crossed the living room of my father’s ...

FULTON - The Fulton Police Department cancelled an an endangered person advisory for Joyce Burk, a 64-year-old woman. She went missing from 330 Westminster Road on June 15, around 9 a.m. Burk suffers ...

Lizzie Duszynski-Goodman is a journalist living in the Midwest with her husband and two young children. Her work explores the intersection of mental health, wellness and parenting. She is the former ...

It’s a frustration for both doctors who treat patients with schizophrenia and for people living with it: the most effective antipsychotic drugs have side effects, so unpleasant patients would rather ...

New Haven, Conn. — Could complex beliefs like paranoia have roots in something as basic as vision? A new Yale study finds evidence that they might. When completing a visual perception task, in which ...