litigious paranoia

a type of paranoid disorder characterized by constant quarreling, claims of persecution, and insistence that one’s rights have been breached. The individual usually threatens to go to court—and frequently does so—to seek redress for exaggerated or imagined wrongs. Also called paranoia querulans; paranoid litigious state.

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dihydroxyphenylacetic acid

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