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A persecution complex, or persecutory delusion, is the belief that people are out to get you. People who have this delusion feel that there is a plot against them. Someone (sometimes it is the government, sometimes it is a specific person) is trying to harm or kill them. Another word for this would be paranoid.
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∙ 13y agoIndividuals with persecutory delusional disorder are plagued by feelings of paranoia and an irrational yet unshakable belief that someone is plotting against them, or out to harm them.
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∙ 13y agoA fixed, false, and inflexible belief that others are engaging in a plot or plan to harm an individual
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Who has persecutory delusions?
Individuals with paranoid schizophrenia and persecutory delusional disorder experience what is known as persecutory delusions
What do Paranoid perceptions and behavior show up in?
Paranoid schizophrenia, delusional disorder (persecutory type), and paranoid personality disorder (PPD).
How might one distinguish between delusional disorder and schizophrenia?
Delusional disorder is characterized by a tanaciously held belief with no accompanying hallucinations. This is the single distinction as some sub-types of schizophrenia are very symptomatically similar to delusional disorder. The delusion can be erotic, jealous, grandiose, persecutory, or somatic and attempts to question it are met confrontationally.
How successful is treatment for delusional disorder?
Delusional disorder is typically a chronic condition, but with appropriate treatment, a remission of delusional symptoms occurs in up to 50% of patients
What is delusional thinking?
Delusional disorder ( delusional thinking) is characterized by the presence of recurrent, persistent non-bizarre delusions.
What is ODHD?
Obsessive Delusional Heterodoxy Disorder
Are there any famous people who suffer from delusional disorder?
Yes
Symptoms of Paranoid Schophrenia?
Paranoid schizophrenia is when there is a presence of a delusion, a false belief, and possibly a hallucination that fuels that delusion. Types of delusion include delusional jealousy, erotomanic delusion, persecutory delusion, grandiose, and somatic delusion.
About the prognosis of delusional disorder in middle age?
This is a modern concept and doesn't apply to this time in history.
What disease includes delusions?
In mental disorders, Brief Psychotic Disorder, Schizoaffective Disorder, Schizophreniform Disorder, Schizophrenia, and Delusional Disorder can cause delusions. In some cases, severe mania or depression can cause delusions.
What is the name of the mental illness where you believe you are in a relationship with someone famous?
Erotomania or Erotomanic type of Delusional Disorder
What are the two major categories of psychosis?
Delusions and hallucinations. Other disorders that are similar are Schizophrenia and Delusional Disorder
