What is Delusion?
Delusion is the perception of people that comes from the absence of real objects. It is an internal part of an individual.
Delusions are unusual subjectively determined beliefs which are one of harmony with the individual’s education and surrounding. They are disguised wishes to satisfy inner needs, they may be fixed or changeable and incoherent.
Delusions are of following types or say examples:
- Delusions of persecution – are the common type among other delusions. For example, the individual imagines that his enemies are following poisoning his food and taking advantage of him.
- Delusions of grandeur – has extreme positive expression toward life. For example, the individual thinks that he is a millionaire, ruler of the universe, has divine powers, and spirit, and so on.
- Hypochondriacal delusions – are usually interpreted as having imaginary and mental diseases. For example, the brain is turning into mud, blood into the water. Individual thinking is directed to different incurable diseases as cancer or hepatitis B, etc.
- Self Condemtory delusions – as its name implies it is concerned with condemning self for different events that occurred around oneself such as bad weather, poverty, the crime that is happening around us because of him. The individual finds ownself unworthy, trustless, and valueless in his perception.
- Ideas for reference – suggest that the individual is referring to him, bad bitting, talking about him. He is very suspicious about the people around him.
- Nihilistic delusion – is that type of thinking in which the individual thinks he does not exist. He has already turned into vapor or ghost.