Difference between Mental Illness and Paranoia

MENTAL ILLNESS vs PARANOIA: NOUN

A mental disorder.
The property of being mentally ill; mental disorders taken as a whole.
Any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention

Unwarranted suspicion of the motives of others; -- used colloquially in a non-technical sense.
A chronic form of insanity characterized by very gradual impairment of the intellect, systematized delusion, and usually by delusions of persecution or mandatory delusions producing homicidal tendency. In its mild form paranoia may consist in the well-marked crotchetiness exhibited in persons commonly called “cranks.” Paranoiacs usually show evidences of bodily and nervous degeneration, and many have hallucinations, esp. of sight and hearing.
Extreme, irrational distrust of others.
A psychotic disorder characterized by delusions of persecution with or without grandeur, often strenuously defended with apparent logic and reason.
A psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur

Dementia, Drug addiction, Depressive disorder, Manic depression, Alcoholism, Depression, Psychiatric, Personality disorder, Paranoid schizophrenia, Psychosis, Mentally ill, Bipolar disorder, Mental health, Schizophrenia, Mental disease

Mass hysteria, Psychosis, Distrust, Megalomania, Jealousy, Narcissism, Irrationality, Lunacy, Cynicism, Anxiety, Delusion, Neurosis, Hysteria, Delirium, Madness

Ptsd, Substance abuse, Dementia, Drug addiction, Depressive disorder, Manic depression, Alcoholism, Depression, Psychiatric, Personality disorder, Paranoid schizophrenia, Psychosis, Mentally ill, Bipolar disorder, Mental health

Hypochondria, Phobia, Suspiciousness, Hatred, Mass hysteria, Psychosis, Megalomania, Jealousy, Narcissism, Irrationality, Lunacy, Anxiety, Neurosis, Delirium, Madness

NAMI believes that people with mental illness deserve access to effective medications that treat their mental illness.
When we see mental illness as an objective darkness that can be weaponized, it absolves those who think people with mental illness are evil.
Mental Illness Is the person using violence negatively impacting their mental health or causing or exacerbating their mental illness?
Priority should be given to persons with serious and persistent mental illness or acute mental illness.
Americans affected by mental illness, especially those with serious mental illness.
Grace identified fully with mental illness and mental illness constituted her identity as a person.
Dimensions of mental illness stigma: what about mental illness causes social rejection?
Examples of mental illness, when added to a definition of mental illness, help deepen our understanding of what mental disorders really are.
Mental illness affects behavior and behavior can affect mental illness, but mental illnesses are not behavioral.
Sandwiched between mental health and severe mental illness is a clinical category called mental illness.

Michael was prescribed risperidone when he experienced paranoia.
Instead, it increases paranoia without materially protecting health.
Now there is distrust and paranoia running wild.
Leave them to their papal paranoia and ignorance.
This paranoia may be directed against the lawyer.
But the paranoia stayed for a long time.
Paranoia is just reality on a finer scale.
Burma presents another extreme example of Internet paranoia.
Technology is no cure for this paranoia; in fact, it may enhance the paranoia: it turns us into prisoners of our own device.
Ethnic differences in subclinical paranoia: an expansion of norms of the paranoia scale.