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If you go by Smith's account, the rest must have gone to: 1) a surprisingly large number of cell-phone calls--up to 20 a day per person--to a surprisingly large number of lovers; 2) alternative therapists--astrologists (three), spiritualists (including a clairvoyant who put her in touch with her grandmother), a tarot card reader, an energy healer, a hypnotherapist, an "anger-release" therapist, colonic irrigationists, osteopaths, chiropractors, reflexologists, aromatherapists, shiatsu and tai chi chuan experts, acupuncturists, and a "mind-body" therapist, the last a former tax accountant who gave her massages and diet advice; 3) more conventional forms of treatment for sleeplessness, eating disorders, paranoia, and self-mutilation, including an episode in which she slashed her arms and smeared the blood all over the walls of an airplane; 4) lunch at fancy restaurants to which she secretly invited tabloid reporters so she could drop by their tables and leak whatever she wanted to appear in their publications the next day.
In some ways, the fields of psychology and psychiatry can be said to rely on the ability of the practitioner to give a name to a condition, whether it be normality, schizophrenia, paranoia , or some other term.
Autsaid outside signifies that the drug user is out of it, totally stoned; paranoia is the word for bad trip.
Johnson was self-pitying and prone to the blackest paranoia.
Corporate collisions with racial paranoia have become quite common.