In a 10-year longitudinal study of 3021 participants, researchers in The Netherlands, U.K., Germany and Switzerland find that paranoid symptoms are associated with social phobia, and that social phobia is predicted by thoughts of loss of control and fear/avoidance of social situations. They conclude that traumatic experiences may drive paranoid thinking in vulnerable individuals. Their results are published in the upcoming Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica.
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