Paranoid personality disorder

Coding guidance (WHO 2019)

Personality disorder characterized by excessive sensitivity to setbacks, unforgiveness of insults; suspiciousness and a tendency to distort experience by misconstruing the neutral or friendly actions of others as hostile or contemptuous; recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding the sexual fidelity of the spouse or sexual partner; and a combative and tenacious sense of personal rights. There may be excessive self-importance, and there is often excessive self-reference. Personality (disorder): expansive paranoid fanatic querulant paranoid sensitive paranoid Excl.: paranoia (F22.0) paranoia querulans (F22.8) paranoid: psychosis (F22.0) schizophrenia (F20.0) state (F22.0)

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