Are You Paranoid or Just Hypervigilant?

There is a difference between paranoid ideation, hypervigilance, and conspiracism.
Hypervigilance is a common post-trauma (adverse life experiences) response.
Paranoid ideation is a fantasy defense. It is totally invented, conjured from thin air, fiction. It is counterfactual (defies the facts) or confabulatory (not based on any facts whatsoever, unreal). Paranoia is 100% imagination. It does not rely on a single fact.
Conspiracism is the tendency to find patterns in FACTS and interpret them. The interpretation is often WRONG - but it is always POSSIBLE.
Conspiracism involves creativity and imagination.
Attempts to make sense of new or unusual environmental cues (such as other people’s behaviors).
Mental health is indicated by keeping it in proportion and perspective and being able to laugh at yourself. Self-deprecation is a sign of strength.
Ask yourself: How LIKELY is it? It is POSSIBLE. But is it likely? No, it isn’t likely. Immediately rule out ALL unlikely scenarios. Instantly and totally. Tell yourself: It is unlikely So, I will just ignore it and behave as if it is impossible!
In your mind, use this equation: Unlikely=impossible.
Don’t ask yourself how YOU feel about it (“do I feel that it is likely?”) Ask yourself: IS IT likely? Would others find this likely?
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[@ElOmarco]

Less than a minute in and I'm already laughing out loud. Thank you. Good morning.

[@joanmoloney8188]

love your massive brain.never stop educating with your super style. thank you Mr Sam and stay like you are.forever.💐🐝

[@dextermorganbloodspattersp6382]

Hypervigilant Diagnosis many years back , and I agree totally with it PTSD came with it. Vigaellance or Vigilantism I struggle with, not trying to police the Walking free Child and/ or Elder Abusers I see . Dexter is my Hero in a world Full of potentially evil people. Always fight the Good Fight Narcs are Not that Good fight . They're beyond Redemption

[@NastazyaPhylipovnaTchornaya]

Both. (Mostly hypervigilant, you can tell the difference because it's exhausting. Neither borderline nor NPD, severe conjugal violence with someone who wouldn't give up despite prison and getting kicked out of the country. ) Edit: Not a conspiracist, too smart for that:)

[@EmilijanGjoka]

9:45~ perfectly explained

[@TiNa-kk6tu]

You are so sweet Sem..😊😊

[@zpspiegel]

Thank you, professor Sam Vaknin♥️

[@user-nw1qi7ut1r]

Very good video

[@snorrimarolafsson2912]

Sam, do patients with OCD present with paranoia or hypervigilance? Great video!

[@samvaknin]

Some do, some don't. It is not a clinical feature of OCD.

[@snorrimarolafsson2912]

Thank You!!@@samvaknin

[@snorrimarolafsson2912]

i would also like to ask if people with ADHD have some narcissistic tendencies? (i myself have ADHD and other anxiety disorder such as OCD) can severe OCD lead to psychosis?@@samvaknin

[@terrijones1167]

I like the idea that you could be putting ideas into my head that will blossom later❤thank you Dr Vaknin.

[@maximocozzetti900]

Im always hypervigilant with her but lately im noticing (not sure) that I get some episodes of paranoia/paranoid ideation. Right now im in one of those and these days if I hear a sound thats constant like a running fan (I year the sound and its like my brain gives it automatically a meaning, could be someone speaking on a radio with the fan noise in background, if I focus and notice that is the fan it usually get silenced) Another thing im noticing is that when seeing things on my sides the first 0.20 secconds I see a form that its like not dangerous but alarming enough to react sometimes and get scared. Sorry for the english.

[@maximocozzetti900]

Also im noticing that I increased a lot my OCD must do patterns. Before it was with some numbers or scenario but now goes like eating a cookie and having to eat another one to eat 2 or take sips a counted number of times when drinking

[@lauraluca8378]

And when is true? When someone try to steal your child? In narcisistic political system ? When you go with proves to court? And take your kid back ,but no one is guilty? .and you can 't do nothing ,just be glad that you have the kid home safe.

[@Najmille]

Well I think you would be hyperviligant and suffer from potential PTSD because that sounds traumatic

[@marinagoode3478]

Got that badge too

[@maskedman2210]

I remember during my intro to psychology class, there was a person who didn't think there was a difference between being paranoid for no reason and being paranoid for a good reason. Which I pointed out there was a huge difference between somebody with paranoid behaviors for no reason at all and somebody who owed 50 grand to a loan shark and blew the money on strippers and cocaine. The latter obviously has a VERY good reason to be paranoid!

[@paromita_ghosh]

Wtf

[@Francisqolito]

could we then say that the paranoid narcissist is someone with dysfunctional abductive reasoning?

[@pberPSR]

dont focus on epistemology, focus on ontology. 22:27 from chatgpt: Epistemology deals with the study of knowledge, focusing on questions related to belief, justification, and the nature of knowledge itself. It explores how we know what we know and the methods of acquiring knowledge. On the other hand, ontology is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature of existence or being. It deals with questions about what entities exist, what their nature is, and how they relate to each other. Ontology is concerned with the fundamental categories of reality and the nature of existence.

[@prosmatrac]

what does that mean "šašanim" ? 😀 sounds cute