Delusions
Overview
- Rigidly held false beliefs not consistent with a person's background.
- Grandiose delusions - of wealth / powerAcute mania
- Hypochondriacal / somatic delusions - false convictions of fatal disease, infestations or degeneration of organsPsychosis, psychotic depression
- Nihilistic delusions: feeling of not existing or having a body
- Delusional perception: a normal perception followed by a delusional conclusionSchizophrenia
- Delusions of infidelityPsychosis
- Delusions of guilt and povertyPsychotic depression
- Capgras's syndrome: the delusion that a significant person (e.g. spouse) has been replaced with an imposter
- Erotomania: the delusion that a stranger (e.g. a celebrity) is in love with the patient
- Do not attempt to challenge delusional ideas.
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