How do you use the word "paranoid"?

paranoid : exhibiting or characterized by extreme and irrational fear or distrust of others, extremely fearful

Example Sentences
She's a little paranoid about her job.
It's nothing more than a paranoid fantasy.
I guess I was just being paranoid.

If someone is paranoid the are overly or irationaly worried of conserned about something.
'she is paranoid because she thinks he is a spy'

Definition: Characterized by suspiciousness, persecutory trends, or megalomania

Examples:
For instance, in the uk we have become completely paranoid about the threat to children from strangers.

Increasingly paranoid, Stalin himself became a victim of the fear he had induced in his subjects.

She always gets a bit paranoid about the traffic on the highway.

ex. the drug the doctor gave me had the side affect of making me paranoid.

here are some examples:

the cops make me paranoid

I am paranoid of the cops

I suffer from an acute sense of paranoia