Is Paranoia real, bad, or what?

[Steve]

Surely Paranoia is an "unreasonable" fear, one that defies reason. Believing that your postman isn't delivering your mail sounds far fetched, but if you have lost a succession of posted credit cards and there have been unexplained withdrawals on your accounts then you'd be justified in thinking the postie was up to no good.

Some people would consider me paranoid because I have a pessimistic view of the future of the UK economy, the same people probably would have thought the same in 2005 when I thought energy prices were going to rocket. Those people didn't make nearly £100k on their ideas. They don't understand paranoia, it's nothing to do with prepping because prepping is about real threats, not imaginary bogey men.