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[quote=Anonymous]I think one reason people develop paranoia in old age is that people start treating you like a child, withholding info, talking about you with others without you present, making decisions for you, etc. It's about loss of power.

Basically, that paranoia is actually somewhat justified because other people are talking about you and making decisions on your behalf (adult children, spouse, doctors, etc.) and only telling you the stuff they think you can handle or won't react poorly to.

Even when their behavior is justified because of the older person's dementia, personality disorder, resistance to change, etc., when you feel like you are being managed and told partial truths or straight up lies in order to keep you compliant, paranoia isn't that irrational.

Also, I once worked at a place with a rampant gossip culture and I became super paranoid to an almost pathological degree (literally speculating constantly to my DH about what coworkers might be saying and doing behind my back, super suspicious of everyone) and then I left that job and, poof, no paranoia problem because people were straightforward and drama free at my next gig.

I mean, yeah, also all the stuff about politics and not being able to trust institutions and the fact that media is terrible and just trumps up everything for ratings without considering how it's going to impact people. But I think with older people, often it's just this growing distrust that the people around you are telling you the truth or communicating everything to you that they could be. These factors probably feed into each other.[/quote]

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