The Paranoid Personality may appear to behave in strange, unusual, deviant, peculiar ways. Thinking can be very idiosyncratic and filled with defensive logic. The PP may appear to be hostile, stubborn, resistant, defensive and manipulative. The PP tends to influence others with intense, biting anger and may show deficits in consistently expressing love and affection. The person appears suspicious, distrustful, jealous, angry, hostile, negative and hypervigilant.
Paranoid people are very hurt individuals who require enormous amounts of empathy and understanding.
Unfortunately, it is difficult for other people to supply that empathy if they are the targets of the paranoid's exaggerated responses to minor slights, benign remarks and insignificant events. The internal injuries are so enormous that the PP feels harmed and exploited without a sufficient reality basis. Thus, the inner object finds and locates an external object upon which to blame, accuse and project. Not all people are made into bad, harmful objects by the paranoid person. Some individuals are deemed trustworthy by the inner arbitrator.