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castrophrenia
Feb. 22nd, 2011 07:18 amcastrophrenia or castraphrenia (kas-truh-FEE-nee-uh) - n., the belief that one's thoughts are being stolen by another.
An occasional symptom of schizophrenia. Here "stolen" means not just being read but being sucked out of one's brain. The word strikes me as useful as a general term for paranoia, possibly in the adjectival form castrophrenic. Created by combining castrate (to geld) with -phrenia, mental disorder.
---L.
An occasional symptom of schizophrenia. Here "stolen" means not just being read but being sucked out of one's brain. The word strikes me as useful as a general term for paranoia, possibly in the adjectival form castrophrenic. Created by combining castrate (to geld) with -phrenia, mental disorder.
---L.
