How to effectively treat paranoid personality

The treatment methods for paranoid personality disorder should be selected scientifically, including cognitive improvement methods, friendship training methods, and the important self-treatment methods. Because these people tend to go to extremes, they need to change their paranoid behavior and analyze their irrational ideas.

1. Cognitive improvement method

Since patients do not trust others, are sensitive and suspicious, and will not accept any well-intentioned advice, we must first establish a trusting relationship with them, communicate emotions on the basis of mutual trust, and fully introduce to them the nature, characteristics, harmfulness and correction methods of their own personality disorders, so that they can have a correct and objective understanding of themselves, and consciously and voluntarily develop the desire to change their own personality defects. This is a prerequisite for further psychotherapy.

2. Friendship training method

Encourage them to actively engage in friendships, learn to trust others and eliminate insecurity. The principles and essentials of friendship training are:

(1) Be sincere in your dealings with others and be open-minded. I must make friends actively with a sincere and open attitude. We should believe that most people are friendly, good and trustworthy. We should not be prejudiced or distrustful towards friends, especially close friends. It must be clear that the purpose of making friends is to overcome paranoia, seek friendship and help, exchange thoughts and feelings, and eliminate psychological barriers.

(2) Try to be proactive in providing all kinds of help to your close friends during interactions. This helps to win the other person's trust and consolidate friendship. Especially when others are in trouble, we should give them all we can to help. True friendship comes from times of adversity. Only in this way can we gain the trust of our friends and strengthen our friendship.

(3) Pay attention to the "psychological compatibility principle" in making friends: similarity and consistency in personality and temperament are conducive to psychological compatibility and building good friendships. In addition, gender, age, occupation, cultural accomplishment, economic level, social status and interests and hobbies also have the problem of "psychological compatibility". However, the most basic condition for psychological compatibility is the similarity and consistency of ideology and outlook on life and values, the so-called "like-minded". This is the psychological basis for developing cooperation and consolidating friendship.

3. Self-therapy

People with paranoid personality like to go to extremes, which is related to the irrational ideas in their minds. Therefore, to change paranoid behavior, patients with paranoid personality must first analyze their own irrational ideas. like:

①I cannot tolerate the slightest bit of infidelity from others.

②There are no good people in the world, I only believe in myself.

② When someone attacks me, I must set a goal to fight back strongly and let him know that I am stronger than him.

④ I cannot show gentleness, as this will give people a feeling of being weak.