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Questionnaire: For Partners, Friends and Relatives of Someone Who is Afflicted With Paranoid Personality Disorder

This is a self-analyzing questionnaire that is designed to make you think and can help you to identify those characteristics associated with Paranoid Personality problems. Please print it out and answer the questions.

1.       Do you believe that               has a hidden, excessive fear of being abused, hurt and emotionally injured?

Yes                          No                 

2.       Does           appear to engage in unreasonable scanning and hypervigilant behaviors?

Yes                            No               

3.       Have you noticed that           appears to engage in projection, ascribing malevolent intentions, actions and motives to you and other people?

Yes                           No                

4.       Have you ever been the object or target of                  's fear, anger and distrust?

Yes                          No                 

5.       Does           seem to be negatively hypercritical?

Yes                           No                

6.       Does           appear to be negatively and disrespectfully judgmental?

Yes                           No                

7.       Do you sometimes feel that you are a symbolic representation of someone or something out of  's past?

Yes                           No                

8.       Do you sometimes feel that              displaces, externalizes feelings on to you that seem to belong onto someone else from the past?

Yes                           No                

9.       Do you sometimes feel that you are a bad parent to                ?

Yes                           No                

10.   Do you sometimes feel that you are being treated as if you are an abusing parent?

Yes                           No                

11.   Do you sometimes feel that you are being accused unfairly?

Yes                           No                

12.   Do you sometimes feel that              plays the victim and you are the victimizer?

Yes                           No                

13.   Do you sometimes feel that              identifies with abused children and sees you as the bad parent?

Yes                           No                

14.   Do you sometimes feel that              magnifies and exaggerates events and behavior?

Yes                           No                

15.   Do you sometimes feel that              misinterprets events and people's behavior and motives?

Yes                           No                

16.   Does           misperceive benign events and mislabel them as, "Terrible, Awful, etc."?

Yes                           No                

17.   Does it seem that                turns reality around into the opposite direction?

Yes                           No                

18.   Does it seem that                presents a positive image and then turns around into the opposite?

Yes                           No                

19.   When you spend time with                do you feel disordered afterwards?

Yes                           No                

20.   After you have spent time with                       do you feel like crying and screaming?

Yes                           No                

21.   Why don't you?                                                                                                                               

22.   Have you ever been emotionally involved with a suspicious and distrusting person before?

Yes                           No                

23.   Does           hold grudges?  Is there a family history of grudge holding?

Yes                           No                             Yes                     No                

24.   Does           keep reminding you of the skeletons in your family closet, but never talks about his/her own?

Yes                           No                

25.   Does           seem more negative than positive, most of the time?

Yes                           No                

26.   Are you afraid to end the relationship with                  ? Yes                   No                

Why?                                                            

27.   Does                       convince other people [including therapists] that you are the bad one?

Yes                           No                

28.   How does that make you feel?                                                                                                         

29.   Does                       make conclusions based on insufficient, arbitrary, unsubstantiated evidence?

Yes                           No                

30.   Does                       select certain information out of context and highlight certain details while ignoring other important information?

Yes                           No                

31.   Does           engage in polarized, all or none dichotomized thinking [good, bad, black, white, etc.]?

Yes                           No                

32.   Does           display tunnel vision; i.e., seeing only what he/she wants to see?

Yes                           No                

33.   Does           make automatic assumptions that you hold a negative ulterior motive for your actions?

Yes                           No                

Call Dr. Paul right now at 818 882 7404 if you are fairly certain that your loved one is afflicted by an INTER-PERSON-ALITY problem!

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