I discussed the issue of paranoid delusional disorder yesterday, stating that I felt my fear of psychiatric persecution was extremely unlikely, pretty irrational, and possibly delusional.

His response was, no, it's not. Although it's a pretty unrealistic fear! it's reality based, in that 1) it already happened to me 2 years ago; 2) I had tremendous exposure to my father's true paranoid delusions, 3). I recognize the irrationality of my fear under IRL conditions.

His opinion, hyper vigilance. Yup. He said that the patients he has dealt with who are truly suffering delusional disorder would never state that their fear issue is untrue/a false belief IRL, because they are completely convinced of the reality of it.

So at least there is that - I won't have that diagnostic code on my rap sheet.