Talk:Paranoid anxiety

Ample evidence "Paranoid Anxiety" is a notable term
Removed Proposed deletion/dated |concern = No evidence that this is a notable term or a useful encyclopedia article. |timestamp = 20130128191747

"Paranoid anxiety" returns over 1,000 papers in Google Scholar.

"Depressive anxiety", the parallel and related concept, returns over 6,000. These are standard psychological terms which are frequently referenced in numerous refereed academic journals. Likewise "paranoid anxiety" as a combined word search term returns over 12,000 hits on Google. The simple search on "paranoid anxiety" without joining the word returns almost six million hits!

The assertion "No evidence that this is a notable term or a useful encyclopedia article" is therefore unsubstantiated.

The article is marked a stub and therefore makes no claim that its complete. The cross references are instructive. Rick (talk) 20:26, 28 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Please provide some of this evidence. At present this article is completely unsourced, and thus inappropriate for an encyclopedia. The lead sentence more or less says "this topic is undefined", which isn't helpful (as well as being ungrammatical and over-informal). Pam  D  22:08, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Paranoid anxiety, alcohol and panic attack

 * Heavy drinking is said to sometimes precipitate acute paranoid panic - the protagonist's unconscious hostile impulses being projected onto all those around.

Great addition and easy to see with the "violent alcoholic." Great example and reference! It begs the question however, is the alcohol originating the paranoid anxiety or is it just an attempt to self medicate away that underlying horrible anxiety? I'd be the first to agree that anyone with paranoid anxiety should just avoid drinking altogether. Sometimes the alcoholism is just the tip of the iceburg however. A 30-90 day dry out has some benefit but unless that root cause is vigorously treated remission is huge, or some other maladaptive behavior simply replaces the drinking. Early childhood neglect / abuse, severe personality disorder as a result, then alcoholism on top would be a common pattern. Unless the underlying "daemons" underneath are treated the problematic life long pattern returns. Rick (talk) 22:39, 16 April 2013 (UTC)