3 yrs ago i had a psychosis, i thought a guy i know has poisend me and also put some of that powder on the pillows of my couch…now is this paranoia or delusion?
It’s a paranoid delusion. 
A delusion is a false belief; paranoia is accusative.
I get that one a lot (thinking others have drugged me). I even went to detox and rehab once to cleanse my body of the “drugs” my roommates had given me. In the throes of psychosis, it literally felt like I was on drugs.
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For the longest while I believed the government was drugging my old neighborhood and that they were monitoring me after I moved.
I’ve pondered this one… For me… ( this is just me) I’ve had to break it down like this…
When I pause and take a moment to beat down the fear that someone drugged my food or put cameras in my house? Paranoid
Then… truly believing it and then accusing people and coming up with the “logic” that supposedly proves my point and then behaving in such a manner as to thwart them in the perceived actions? Delusion
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Paranoid delusions are one of the more serious types of paranoia one can get. I mean I can get paranoid, but lately they are reality based - I have had delusional paranoia in the past
that was my snag for a long time… My biggest thing is about kidnappers… not demons… or aliens… but kidnappers… and they are very real.
So my doc had NO Way to tell me kidnappers aren’t real. I don’t want to make this a contest… sneaky brained thinking is hard on all of us…
But sometimes just get so tired… demons and aliens are not in the news as much as kidnappers. There is no “Amber Alert” for demons when there are whole state networks dedicated to kidnappers.
I still struggle with this one everyday… catastrophic thinking creeps in almost every single day.
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I think with me, I can get so anxious it spills over to paranoia very quickly.
As an example, I may go to the store and notice a stranger in the same aisle picking up an item close to me - if I see him or her in another aisle where I am choosing an item - I quickly think, what does this guy want? Is he following me? who is he? - all kinds of worst case scenarios pop up - this is anxiety based, I am pretty sure - it just snowballs into paranoia very quickly
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I hate that. I hate it when I start feeling that anxious creep up due to simple stuff like that.
Just because someone else happens to need cereal AND milk when I need cereal and milk… doesn’t mean I’m being followed… spied on… threatened in anyway… but my brain spins no matter what.
The thing is… I never seem to worry that the person is after me… I worry they are after my 18 year old sis who is with me when I go grocery shopping.
Man… I have done some silly things in stores due to this creeping feeling.
That’s the advantage of going to the store late friday night near the frat house dist… all the drunk / high kids getting beer and munchies make me look perfectly uninteresting and unnoticed.
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I agree … it is paranoid delusion, I have had similar experiences, once I thought somebody had poisoned a cake.