Sneaking onto the campus, the CDU spoke with paranoid-schizophrenia authority and psychiatry professor Ira Glick. A degree of wariness is healthy, but once you cross a certain line, paranoia is self-defeating. As the clock ticked toward Y2K, paranoids across the country stockpiled everything from cash to kerosene. Donald MacGregor, a research psychologist with the Eugene, Oregon-based Decision Science Research Institute, studied the millennial phenomenon and concluded that preparation for real or imagined threats can be as hazardous as the threats themselves. I'd never use that word to describe people who are hyperaware in business.
Paranoid people have a mental disorder.
If you're paranoid, you're preoccupied with imaginary threats. You create the seeds of your own self-destruction by projecting your fears onto your surroundings. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Crispell asked, sounding suspicious. The CDU explained the purpose of its investigation.