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A delusion [a] is a false 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.
Painting by Théodore Géricault portraying an old man with a grandiose delusion of power and military command. Grandiose delusions are common in delusional disorder. Specialty: Psychiatry, clinical psychology Symptoms: Strong false belief(s) despite superior evidence to the contrary: Usual onset: 18–90 years old (mean of about age 40) [2] Types
People who present with this form of delusion are often in the bottom 2% in terms of psychological well-being. [3] A correlation has been found between the imagined power the persecutor has and the control the sufferer has over the delusion. Those with a stronger correlation between the two factors have a higher rate of depression and anxiety. [8]
A thought disorder (TD) is a disturbance in cognition which affects language, thought and communication. [1] [2] Psychiatric and psychological glossaries in 2015 and 2017 identified thought disorders as encompassing poverty of ideas, paralogia (a reasoning disorder characterized by expression of illogical or delusional thoughts), word salad, and delusions—all disturbances of thought content ...
A delusion is a fixed, false idiosyncratic belief, which does not change even when presented with incontrovertible evidence to the contrary. Delusions are context- and culture-dependent: a belief that inhibits critical functioning and is widely considered delusional in one population may be common (and even adaptive) in another, or in the same ...
Based on symptoms: Differential diagnosis: Bipolar disorder, mania and hypomania, antisocial personality disorder, substance abuse, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder, [1] grandiose delusions. Treatment: Psychotherapy, pharmaceuticals for comorbid disorders [1] Frequency: 6.2% [3]
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey appeared on two shows this week hosted by a co-defendant of former President Donald Trump in the Georgia election interference case to tout the state’s ...
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder distinguished by a loss of contact with reality and the occurrence of psychotic behaviors, including hallucinations and delusions (unreal beliefs which endure even when there is contrary evidence). [9] Delusions may include the false and constant idea that the person is being followed or poisoned, or that the ...