People with schizophrenia may have persecutory delusions. Delusions are bizarre or persecutory in nature. Paranoia is a thought process that typically includes persecutory delusions. He feared that he might harm his wife or children because of persecutory delusions. Paranoid anxiety may reach the level of a persecutory anxiety state. Paranoid refers to "paranoia", a thought process that typically includes persecutory beliefs. His opposition to Nazism attracted persecutory reactions towards him. The enforcement of the persecutory edicts was inconsistent. Later persecutory edicts, including the calls for universal sacrifice, were not applied in his domain. Even Constantius was known to have disapproved of persecutory policies. This therapy has been mostly studied in patients with the persecutory type. Persecutory delusions are, for instance, classically linked to psychosis. In July 257, he issued a new persecutory edict. Persecutory policies varied in intensity across the empire. He issued his own persecutory edict in the spring of 306, ordering general sacrifice.