“Can anxiety cause paranoid delusions?”
I am a 36 year old male. I want to know if anxiety can cause paranoid delusions?
2 Answers
Paranoid delusions can cause anxiety.
It can definitely cause fearfulness and heightened paranoid thinking but not delusions; delusions are fixed false beliefs without the ability to rationalize about them vs. person that has anxious-paranoid thinking that is able to rationalize.
