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What Do You Do When You're Assessing Someone With Paranoid Schizophrenia?
When I assess someone, especially the first time, they don't know me from Jack. A lot of them have paranoid delusions. The easiest and quickest way is to look at all the other evidence. If somebody says their paranoid and was acting paranoid in front of me, but the prison officers say that they're laughing and joking with their other prisoner inmates on the wings, then I'm suspicious. And the other telltale sign is that if somebody's really, really unwell, theydon't have an agenda.