These phenomena (persecutory delusions, thought broadcast, and third-person auditory verbal hallucinations, respectively) would satisfy criteria for a diagnosis of schizophrenia, assuming that they had lasted for more than a month and that they occurred in the absence of any other processes (such ...
In 300 individuals from the general population, insomnia and paranoid ideation were strongly associated, and the association was partly explained by the presence of anxiety and depression (Freeman et al., 2009). In a small group of patients with persecutory delusions (and a diagnosis of ...