[Jul]

My husand demonstrates a lot of paranoid behavior. His mother was a schizophrenic paranoid but my husband is definitely not schizophrenic. So, my question is could his mother's issues be handed down and maniast themselves differently?

[nickipettis]

his behaviors could be learned responses - part of how he survived emotionally while trying to cope with her stange behaviors.

[bluegoat114]

Yes...trusting people seems to be an issue of children who had paranoid/SX parents; dealing with problems illogically, or coldly....SX has a genetic component, usually skipping a generation, so even though he does not manifest the SX diagnosis he has learned how to deal with one, out of survival. (psychologist)