Post by Radrook Admin on Sept 15, 2019 14:35:57 GMT -5
Delusional Disorder
Description
Delusional disorder is a generally rare mental illness in which the patient presents delusions, but with no accompanying prominent hallucinations, thought disorder, mood disorder, or significant flattening of affect.
Delusions are a specific symptom of psychosis. Delusions can be "bizarre" or "non-bizarre" in content; non-bizarre delusions are fixed false beliefs that involve situations that occur in real life, such as being harmed or poisoned. Apart from their delusion or delusions, people with delusional disorder may continue to socialize and function in a normal manner and their behavior does not necessarily generally seem odd. However, the preoccupation with delusional ideas can be disruptive to their overall lives.
Delusions are a specific symptom of psychosis. Delusions can be "bizarre" or "non-bizarre" in content; non-bizarre delusions are fixed false beliefs that involve situations that occur in real life, such as being harmed or poisoned. Apart from their delusion or delusions, people with delusional disorder may continue to socialize and function in a normal manner and their behavior does not necessarily generally seem odd. However, the preoccupation with delusional ideas can be disruptive to their overall lives.
For the diagnosis to be made, auditory and visual hallucinations cannot be prominent, though olfactory or tactile hallucinations related to the content of the delusion may be present. The delusions cannot be due to the effects of a drug, medication, or general medical condition, and delusional disorder cannot be diagnosed in an individual previously properly diagnosed with schizophrenia. A person with delusional disorder may be high functioning in daily life. Recent and comprehensive meta-analyses of scientific studies point to an association between a deterioration in aspects of IQ in psychotic patients, in particular perceptual reasoning.
Delusions also occur as symptoms of many other mental disorders, especially the other psychotic disorders.
b The DSM-IV, and psychologists agree that personal beliefs should be evaluated with great respect to cultural and religious differences, since some cultures have widely accepted beliefs that may be considered delusional in other cultures.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusional_disorder
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusional_disorder
Five Specific categories
Eratomatic: Belief that someone is in love with you from afar without a reasonable cause.
Jealousy: Obsession with another person's fidelity.
Grandiose: Delusions of power and supreme importance
Somatic: Obsesses about having a physical defect or medical problem.
Persecutcatory: Obseses about being mistreated, spied upon, or conspired against.
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Two General Categories Bizarre and Non-Bizarre
Bizarre is when a person believes in something utterly impossible such as that he is Jesus, Napoleon, or a lizard.
Non bizzare is a belief in something very unlikely but not necessarily impossible such as that he is a laweyer, is rich or a certain person is in love with him or her.
Non bizzare is a belief in something very unlikely but not necessarily impossible such as that he is a laweyer, is rich or a certain person is in love with him or her.
Careful with Snap Judgments
Please note that we should not automatically jump to conclusions about any person who is jealous, thinks he is being persecuted, has a medical problem unless we are absolutely certain that the person lacks a justifiable reason to feel that way. A jealous person might indeed have a justifiable reason to feel jealous if his wife or a husband blatantly flirts and has been unfaithful in the past. Persons who feel persecuted might very well have a justifiable reason based on actual persecution based on a racist environment fueled by a racist culture.
For example, did black people living under the USA Jim Crow system have a Delusional disorder if they felt persecuted?
Did the Jews have it under Germany's Nazism? A person who constantly talks about feeling ill might very well be found to have been seriously ill and had been misdiagnosed. So care must be taken in making snap judgments based on scanty evidence and without having all the facts. Also to be considered is religion and culture. What might be considered abnormal in one culture or religion would appear as perfectly normal within another.
The following video delves deeper into the subject: