Paranoiais a symptom of mental illnesses such as paranoid personality disorder (PPD), delusional disorder, and schizophrenia. Calling you paranoid is a gaslighting tactic similar to calling you “delusional,” or “crazy.” Paranoid and crazy are the narcissist's pet names for people when you cat...
In cases when the person truly believes the hallucination is real, the individual may also have a delusional interpretation of the hallucination. Hallucinations must be distinguished from illusions, which are misperceptions of actual external stimuli. In other words, an illusion is essentially seeing...
The other patient, who had an undetermined organic psychosis, benefited from an indirect technique which avoided direct suggestion and emphasized the patients control of her thinking and bodily reactions. She was able to control anxiety and delusional thinking. A trusting relationship with the therapist...
Many of them described visions that drew from their lives and seemed to hold meaning, unlike hallucinations resulting from medication, or delusional, incoherent thinking, which can also occur at the end of life. Phoebe Zerwick, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024 Abusive, profane, self-promotional,...