(February 26, 2018 at 9:47 pm)Alexmahone Wrote:I am not changing the definition. Perhaps you are assuming that the DSM-5 is not a book detailing psychiatric disorders. Perhaps you want to trivialize the suffering of those people with schizo-affective disorder of the bipolar type, paranoid schizophrenia, dementia, brutal infectious processes which bring on delirium. Perhaps you want to equate these peoples diseases with a character flaw or a lack of intelligence.(February 26, 2018 at 9:04 pm)chimp3 Wrote: It has to do with the crippling effect of the delusion. If you believe Elvis is alive and you pay your bills go to work, school,etc. then you are just irrational and misguided. If you will not leave the house because you think Elvis is showing up to marry you (true story with a family member of mine) then your thoughts are delusional. When I worked as a psych nurse we tried to teach patients how to distinguish between their "normal" religious thoughts and those that are signalling another psychotic break. Religion was never discouraged and I know why. My entire family is religious, I have cared for those in a a psychotic delusional state, and these states are different.
Surely you're changing the definition here. The DSM-5 doesn't say anything about the crippling effect of the delusion.
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