A study reported in the journal Schizophrenia Research suggested that sorting out insomnia could reduce the risk of paranoia.
A study of 300 healthy volunteers and 30 psychiatric patients marked by paranoid delusions, showed a clear link between insomnia and paranoid delusions.
It was found that more than 50% of the psychiatric patients, who all experienced feelings of paranoia, suffered from moderate to severe insomnia.
Whereas 70% of ordinary people who scored highly for self-reported symptoms of paranoia also had difficulty sleeping.
The scientists wrote: "higher levels of insomnia were associated with higher levels of persecutory thinking."
The research, funded by the Wellcome Trust, suggested that tackling an inability to sleep could reduce the risk of paranoia.
Well I'm not so sure I'd draw the same conclusions.
It could be that paranoia could be scaring people into insomnia...
Any thoughts out there?
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