Paranoid

My mother has always shown signs of having either a mental or personality disorder. Just with the few disorders we talked about in class, I was able to notice a lot of characteristics that matched paranoid personality disorder. According to the lecture, there are three main traits an individual with this disorder can have. Those traits include being reluctant to trust, watching everyone closely to see signs of betrayal, and holding a grudge for a long time. My mother is exactly like this. When I was a kid, she would always be reluctant to trust others. She wouldn’t let me or my brothers spend the night at someone’s house because she thought that they would kidnap us or something crazy like that. If we wanted sleepovers, they would have to be at our house because in her mind “You can’t trust anyone.” If someone at work or even in our family would do something that was betrayal in her eyes, she would never talk to them again and cut them from our lives. It is crazy to see how closely things tie together when it comes to those in your life and the things you can learn in a classroom.