What’s the difference between being prepared vs paranoid?

[Anonymous]

[LazerBean]

Paranoia is a mental illness that affects their everyday life in a negative way. I know several people who are constantly looking over their shoulder, thinking people are living in their attics and hacking into their computers, or spying on them through binoculars and watching them enter their security code into their alarm panel through the window. They're always in fear and usually reclusive. That is paranoia.

[genericname85]

preparation is for realistic risk management. paranoia is pretty much the same risk management but for risks that are either extremely unlikely to become a reality or even impossible to happen. like if you're a man preparing for your own pregnancy.

[NathanDavis]

anxiety...

being prepared is being aware

being paranoid is more like being on the brink of insanity all the time

[Anonymous]

if a person is prepared than its likely they won't be paranoid.

[MCheetah]

Time.

[Agape93]

Perception.