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1. Paranoid personality disorder is in the A cluster of personality disorders, along with schizoid and shizotypal PD. This type of disorder requires mental health treatment which can include counseling, medications, and other treatment methods.

2. This mental illness includes signs of distrust, and this distrust extends even to close family members and friends. The individual who has this condition finds it very difficult to trust anyone, and they are always on the lookout for signs and indicators that this lack of trust is justified. A fear of being betrayed is very common with this type of personality disorder.

3. Someone who has paranoid personality disorder is typically very suspicious by nature, and is well guarded at all times. This disorder makes the individual far more likely to remember even small slights and to hold grudges for extended periods of time. Close relationships are hard to maintain because of the suspicions and lack of trust displayed.

4. Someone who has this form of mental illness has a very strong sense of their own importance, and of their own personal rights. The individual is more sensitive than normal to ordinary setbacks and obstacles that they may face, and any rebuff is viewed as a large betrayal.

5. The person with paranoid personality disorder will feel humiliation and shame more deeply than most people, and their suspicions tend to make them withdrawn and isolated. Without treatment this isolation and withdrawal can be devastating and contribute to further problems and symptoms of mental illness.