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A persecutory delusion is a type of delusional condition in which the affected person believes that harm is going to occur to oneself by a persecutor, despite a clear lack of evidence. The person may believe that they are being targeted by an individual or a group of people.
Paranoid anxiety may reach the level of a persecutory anxiety state [12] (a form of panic attack), including various levels of persecutory delusions (the preferred term to paranoid delusions). Heavy drinking is said to sometimes precipitate acute paranoid panic [ 13 ] – the protagonist's unconscious hostile impulses being projected onto all ...
A delusion [a] is a fixed belief that is not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence. [2] As a pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, confabulation, dogma, illusion, hallucination, or some other misleading effects of perception, as individuals with those beliefs are able to change or readjust their beliefs upon reviewing the evidence.
The content of delusions varies considerably (limited by the imagination of the delusional person), but certain themes have been identified: for example, persecution. These themes have diagnostic importance in that they point to certain diagnoses. Persecutory delusions are, for instance, classically linked to psychosis.
The word paranoia comes from the Greek παράνοια (paránoia), "madness", [27] and that from παρά (pará), "beside, by" [28] and νόος (nóos), "mind". [29] The term was used to describe a mental illness in which a delusional belief is the sole or most prominent feature.
A cognitive distortion is a thought that causes a person to perceive reality "inaccurately" due to being "exaggerated" to neurotypicals or, sometimes, irrational.Cognitive distortions are involved in the onset or perpetuation of psychopathological states, such as depression and anxiety.
Bartmania – American television series The Simpsons (particularly character Bart Simpson), early 1990s; Beatlemania – English band the Beatles, 1960s; Dalekmania – Dalek characters from Doctor Who, c. 1965; Dianamania – Diana, Princess of Wales, 1980s and 1990s; Jacksonmania – Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5
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