RE: Delusion?
November 11, 2011 at 2:30 pm
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2011 at 2:34 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
No, lol, I assure you, I know better than to trust my own mind. I handled this objection in my previous (meaningful) post. Belief in demons (or alien abductions) is not delusional. A hallucination that trends towards demons (or alien abductions) is not pathological. Unless it is persistent. People who describe being abducted over and over again, people who describe experiences with demons over and over again (they're everywhere after all) would seem to fit the requirements for diagnosis as delusional(though I'm sure you could find cases where other variables were at play). I'm not a mental health specialist, so this is just a lay persons understanding of the requirements obviously. I'm sitting here reading the DSMV as well as the wiki page on delusions (sourced from the DSMV and a whole host of other places) and both indicate that delusions within a religious framework are exceedingly common. Is this incorrect? Is the DSMV or the Wiki page misleading me as to the conditions for diagnosis as delusional?
(November 11, 2011 at 1:49 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Believing in demons is fanciful but not delusional, agreed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delusion
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