The word 'paranoia' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a feeling of fear, distrust, or suspicion without any basis. For example: After watching a horror movie, Alice felt a sense of paranoia, convinced that someone was watching her from the shadows.
This was not some "wave of adolescent paranoia," but a recognition of having been let down.
The reasons are complex: ever-increasing paranoia (particularly for women hitching alone), the advent of cheap coach travel in the 1980s and cheap flights in the 1990s all play a part in this downfall.
In the lead-up to Luke's death, Batty had been gradually decreasing the amount of contact they had with Anderson as his threats escalated and his paranoia seemed to worsen.
Is it fear of socialism - a kind of post-Cold War paranoia that you identified in Merchants of Doubt?
He says he "consequently suffered from paranoia and completely dropped out of protest activity in Cambridge".
Yet paranoia and arguments had led to a brick wall being built across the communal garden to separate the families.
The station is run by Tadeusz Rydzyk, a controversial clergyman who is viscerally anti-German, anti-Russian and anti-EU, peddling a daily diet of bigotry and paranoia which resonates powerfully with mainly elderly rural voters.
The Orbán government, prone to fanning paranoia and regularly conjuring conspiracy theories about foreign plots to undermine Hungary, insinuated the White House had been bribed.
"We do receive a large number of applications from individuals about their belief, or often their paranoia, that they are being targeted," the judge explained after finishing a roast beef sandwich.
As responses go, this time it's pretty well impeccable, funny too, a break from the hysteria, paranoia and affected outrage of the previous 24 hours.
Websites and social media hum with Russian propaganda, conspiracy theories and paranoia.
