What is the meaning of paranoid schizophrenia?

noun

  • A form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy); symptoms may include anger and anxiety and aloofness and doubts about gender identity; unlike other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if delusions are not acted on. may function in an apparently normal manner).
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