[kray_bray_may]

A few years ago, my father was in a state where he thought passersby on the street were staring or making fun of him. He was rude, pulling faces or flipping the bird; made it impossible for my mother or myself to appear in public with him. I'm not sure what this is, can someone help me identify what issue that may be?

[Atypical_Disaster]

Sounds like straight up paranoia to me.

[kray_bray_may]

Originally Posted by Atypical_Disaster

Sounds like straight up paranoia to me.

That's what I concluded after some basic research. Some context: our family immigrated to Canada in 2000 from difficult economic conditions in our country. However, we faced financial hardship in our first years here. Might that have contributed to his issues?

[kray_bray_may]

Ideas anyone??

[Atypical_Disaster]

Environmental stressors can definitely contribute to mental health issues. Things like immigrating and financial hardship for example would be extremely stressful and if someone is already predisposed to mental health problems things like that can certainly exacerbate things for the afflicted person.

[kray_bray_may]

Problem I mentioned above damaged our relations when I was a kid and teen. His paranoia, if I can call it that, while improving, I think continued manifesting in a general mistrust and intolerance of people which I do not tolerate. Maybe he's just an asshole?

[Eris]

It could be so, that he's an ***, but you wouldn't know unless you got to know him a bit better, got to hear how he responded to things, often times there are clues in things letting you know how people perceive reality, and that will let you gauge if it's paranoia or even something else. But it'd be far better if this kind of assessing was done by a professional, I mean, like unless you know very specifically what to look for, and what to eliminate, it's tough. Lots of other factors could be playing in as well too.