Why is one of the most common paranoia in someone suffering from Schizophrenia that the Government or some corporation is tracking them and have fitted them with a device to track their movements

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It could be a generalisation at my end, but from what I have seen and heard a lot of people with schizophrenia have a similar paranoia and my question is, is why is it specifically about someone (mostly government) tracking their movements? Why isn’t it about something else?

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The why is really not relevant as it is the one that most people are exposed to either from cinema or some random guy on TV talking about government. There are patients who have the same idea about their spouses, children, basically the environment. Government is very broad entity, it’s everywhere and nowhere. It’s “they” but not someone specific. Similarly with the corporations.
But it can also be the neighbour, the barista, the teller. The problem with paranoia is the neurological which involves among other parts of the brain, but it mostly focuses on the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex.

Amygdala deals with external threats and then feeds these stimuli to the PFC, which is your rational part, there you make your statistical analysis and say if the threat is real or not, but in schizophrenia this connection is not normal, so to say, so they tend to misinterpreted everything as a threat.

You can experience the same type of paranoia if you are exposed to constant stress.

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