Delusions (Collection: Mental Health )

A delusion is a persistent belief that something is true when there is no evidence suggesting that this is the case. The delusional person cannot be dissuaded from the delusional belief by force of logical argument. There are different types of delusions that tend to occur: Erotomanic (delusions that famous people love you), Grandiose (delusions that you are the Messiah, or deserve recognition and power just because of your inherent greatness), Jealous (delusion that your spouse is having an affair when he/she is not), Persecutory (paranoid delusion that people are after you to harm or harass you or someone you love), Somatic (delusion that you have some medical condition such as a tumor when you do not). As if there wasn't enough variety in the above descriptions, people can also have mixed delusions (several different kinds at once). Delusions can be bizarre or non-bizarre. Non-bizarre delusions are plausible and consistent with what is possible within reality (even though these things are not actually happening). An example of a non-bizarre Persecutory delusion would be that the FBI was after you. A bizarre delusion is completely inconsistent with shared social reality and represents a psychotic state. An example of a bizarre Persecutory delusion is that alien beings were after you. Delusions can be present in Schizophrenia, or themselves (in non-bizarre form) as Delusional Disorder. They tend to be harder to treat than other symptoms associated with Schizophrenia (e.g., medicines don't make them automatically go away, although they may lessen in intensity of conviction with treatment).

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