It is the complete opposite of paranoia. It is a belief (suspicion) that people or the Universe etc. are doing things on your behalf or to benefit you. It is the positive form of paranoia. Too bad we don’t all have that instead.
I guess I have both pronoia and paranoia because I believe that these brain researchers really love me and, at the end of the day, I will be OK but I have paranoia that I will be tortured as part of the brain study. Anyhooo never heard of pronoia before until today. Interesting.
That’s interesting! I have never heard of that term, but haven’t many people got that?
Most of my psychosis was paranoia and terror, but I think I have had some pronoia and euphoria as well. An example: thinking God would protect me from literally everything and everyone and nobody wanted to hurt me and I was invincible as long as I stayed connected to nature and walked with my bare feet in the grass. Or believing that a person we met was Jesus and was sent by God especially to help me and my son. Thinking the universe was putting signs in my life to show me that everything was going to be alright. Is that pronoia, or do I understand it wrong?
Yes, I think those are all examples or pronoia. It just means that you suspect people or the Universe are out to protect or help you. It is the opposite of paranoia. I have mostly paranoia but I have also had some limited pronoia as well. My first psychotic break I thought I was waking up from the brain study where I had been cured of depression and anxiety and I was going to be paid (millions) and the whole world was on my side. I believed the brain researchers were on my side, as well, and out to help me. Since then, I have had mostly paranoia wondering what they are going to do TO me as opposed to FOR me. Ahh well
