2007-10-27 05:31:44 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
false perception of reality.
a fixed false belief that is resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact.
2007-10-27 05:39:24 · answer #1 · answered by MK6 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In psychiatry a delusion is a false personal belief that is firmly and unshakably sustained despite strong evidence to the contrary. They are not connected with religious or common cultural beliefs. For example, a man is truly convinced that he has cancerous tumors in his brain but all medical tests prove that he is completely healthy physically. If he continues to believe he has brain tumors he would be described as delusional. Delusional people do not entertain the idea that their false beliefs are not real.
2007-10-27 14:58:47 · answer #2 · answered by DawnDavenport 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Say I think that I'm the Anti-Christ, the son of the Devil, and that I will eventually go to war with, and defeat God, contrary to what the Bible says.
That's about as delusional as it gets.
Everyone in the world could tell me that I can't be the Anti-Christ because I wasn't born in Rome, I was not born into a powerful political family, and my mother was not a jackal, moreover, I could be made flagrantly aware that I haven't any of the power, or abilities of said mythological being, but I would still believe it anyway simply because I want, or need to believe it. Reason cannot sway it, nothing can sway it. As far as I'm concerned, I am the mythological anti-Christ.
That's what a delusion is. I just decided to use that reference because the Anti-Christ delusion is actually a very common one.
2007-10-27 12:46:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
a delusion is a false strongly held belief....meaning, the person absolutely believes something that is very likely untrue (i.e. the people on the TV are having conversations with me directly, i have magical powers etc.)
usually, delusional people also have hallucinations which is seeing or hearing things that aren't there as well. sometimes the terms are used interchangeably but they are not.
2007-10-27 14:18:27 · answer #4 · answered by dropping bombs on your mom 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is false belief not based on what is actually happening. And no amount of talking to the individual will change the person's thoughts regarding their delusion.
They are adamant that what they believe is the truth. It is their reality.
2007-10-27 14:06:07 · answer #5 · answered by Marguerite 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Believing the opposite of the facts.
2007-10-27 12:40:14 · answer #6 · answered by Thomas E 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Imagining things that are not reality.
2007-10-27 13:51:55 · answer #7 · answered by fkoober 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋