THOUGHTS AND COMMENTARY
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The Road to Neuroplasticity and Change to Heal Trauma, Improve Cognitive Capacity and Maximize Performance
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THOUGHTS, PERCEPTIONS AND DELUSIONS
See Also:
Thoughts and Awareness of Self
Anatomy Of the Self: Part 1 ~ Part 2 ~ Glossary
Your Memory Holds the Secrets
The Power of Positive Thought - Neuroplasticity
Practice Positive Self Affirmations Thoughts, Perceptions and Delusions Complexity of Human Emotion
Thoughts and Awareness of Self
Anatomy Of the Self: Part 1 ~ Part 2 ~ Glossary
Your Memory Holds the Secrets
The Power of Positive Thought - Neuroplasticity
Practice Positive Self Affirmations Thoughts, Perceptions and Delusions Complexity of Human Emotion
Akataphasia: refers to a disturbance of speech resulting from a dissolution of logical ordering of thoughts. It manifests as rambling speech.
Asyndesi: an alternate term for loosening of association. A milder form of derailment of thought, it is marked by the individual leaping from topic to topic which have only the most tenuous, if any, connection with each other.
Clouding of consciousness, also known as brain fog or mental fog, is a global impairment in higher central nervous functioning. All aspects of cognitive functioning are affected. On mental status examination it presents as disorientation in time, place and person. Includes memory difficulties caused by failure to register and recall. Impaired perception functioning leads to illusions and hallucinations. This causes agitation and distress and secondary delusions.
Déjà pensé: when a completely new thought sounds familiar to a person and he feels as he has thought the same thing before at some time.This feeling can be caused by seizures which occur in certain parts of the temporal lobe and possibly other areas of the brain.
Derailment: a thought disorder characterized by discourse consisting of a sequence of unrelated or only remotely related ideas. The frame of reference often changes from one sentence to the next.
Dereistic Thinking: an old descriptive term used to refer to thinking that is not in alignment with the facts of reality but follow illogical, idiosyncratic reasoning. This term is emphasizes a disconnection from reality.
Écho de la pensée: meaning "thought echo" in French, refers to thoughts that seem to be spoken aloud just after being produced. The individual hears the 'echo' of his thoughts in the form of a voice after he has made the thought.
Flight of ideas: describes excessive speech at a rapid rate that involves causal association between ideas. Links between ideas may involve usage of puns or rhymes. It is typical of mania, classically seen in bipolar disorder.
Gedankenlautwerden: occurs when an individual hears thoughts spoken aloud. Thoughts are heard in the form of a voice at the same time as they are thought, not afterwards.
Idée fixe: an alternate term for an overvalued idea. In this condition, a belief that might seem reasonable both to the individual and to other people comes to dominate the thinker’s life.
Ideas of alienation: thoughts that one's own body part or action is not of one's own.
Ideas of influence: thoughts that one's own action is caused by someone else's will or some other external cause.
Ideas of reference: delusional beliefs that general events are personally directed at oneself. For example, someone might believe that he or she is receiving messages from the TV that are directed especially at him or her.
Jargon aphasia: characterized by incoherent, meaningless speech with neologisms (newly invented words). These are unconscious thoughts that find expression when one is off one's guard and must be consciously repressed.
Knight's move thinking: a complete loosening of associations where there is no logical link between one idea and the next. Imagine a knight on a chessboard where the movement can be any L shaped direction, making it difficult to track..
Thought blocking (also referred to as thought withdrawal): refers to an abrupt stop in the middle of a train of thought; the individual might or might not be unable to continue the idea.
DELUSIONS
Affect illusion: Illusions (misperceptions) associated with or based on changes with mood. For example, at midnight a person may take a shadow as a ghost, but in the early part of night this may not be the case.
Alice in Wonderland syndrome: individuals perceive objects (including animals and other humans, or parts of humans, animals, or objects) as appearing substantially smaller than in reality. Generally, the object appears far away or extremely close at the same time. Alternate term for this is somaesthetic aura.
Apophanous perception: an alternate term for delusional perception. A true perception to which an individual attributes a false meaning. For example, a person may see written "No Trespassing" on a board and may infer from this that intelligence agencies are spying on him.
Autoscopy: a reduplicative hallucination of "seeing one's own body at a distance" and the person sees it from the place where he or she is located. Autoscopy is sometimes used synonymously with out-of-body experience.
Confabulation: a confusion of imagination with memory, and/or the confusion of true memories with false memories.
Dermatozoenwahn: an alternate term for organic hallucinosis and delusional parasitosis, the continuous belief that one's skin or body has been infested by parasites or insects. This state cannot be diagnosed if the hallucinatory state is produced while the individual is under the influence of drugs or alcohol, or if the individual fulfills the criterion for delirium. In general, if an individual is under the influence of a drug, or experiencing the symptoms of withdrawal from that drug, this condition is not psychiatric but medical, and termed formication.
Folie à deux: a delusional disorder shared by two or more people who are closely related emotionally. One has real psychosis while the symptoms of psychosis are induced in the other due to close attachment to the one with psychosis. Separation usually results in symptomatic improvement in the one who is not psychotic.
Fregoli delusion: a person has a delusional belief that various different people are in fact one certain person, even if there is no physical resemblance. It is considered a form of delusional misidentification in which the false identification of familiar people occurs in strangers.
Lilliputian hallucinations: characterized by an abnormal perception of objects being shrunken in size but normal in detail.
Paraprosopia: a delusion in which a person believes he or she has seen a face transform into a grotesque form - often described as a 'monster', 'vampire', 'werewolf' or similar.
Paraschemazia: characterized by a distortion of body image. It can be caused by hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD and mescalin, epileptic auras, and sometimes migraines.
Pareidolia: a vague or random stimulus is mistakenly perceived as recognizable. A common example is perceiving the image of a face in clouds. Pareidolia is a type of illusion and hence called pareidolic illusion.
Reduplicative hallucinations: a perception of seeing a double. Particular kinds of reduplicative hallucination include autoscopy, heautoscopy and out-of-body experiences.
Reduplicative paramnesia: a delusional misidentification syndrome in which one's surroundings are believed to exist in more than one physical location.
Reflex hallucinations: occur when true sensory input in one sense leads to production of a hallucination in another sense. For example seeing a doctor writing (visual) and then feeling him writing across one's stomach (tactile).
Wahneinfall: an alternate term for autochthonous delusions or delusional intuition. This is one of the types of primary delusions in which a firm belief comes into the individual's mind 'out of the blue' or as an intuition, therefore called delusional intuition.
COMMON DELUSIONS
Delusion of control: False belief that another person, group of people, or external force controls one's general thoughts, feelings, impulses, or behavior.
Cotard delusion: False belief that one does not exist or has died.
Delusional jealousy: False belief that a spouse or lover is having an affair, with no proof to back up their claim.
Delusion of guilt or sin (or delusion of self-accusation): Ungrounded feeling of remorse or guilt of delusional intensity.
Delusion of mind being read: False belief that other people can know one's thoughts.[
Delusion of thought insertion: Belief that another thinks through the mind of the person.
Delusion of reference: False belief that insignificant remarks, events, or objects in one's environment have personal meaning or significance. "Usually the meaning assigned to these events is negative, but the 'messages' can also have a grandiose quality.
Erotomania: False belief that another person is in love with them.
Grandiose religious delusion: Belief that the affected person is a god or chosen to act as a god.
Somatic delusion: Delusion whose content pertains to bodily functioning, bodily sensations or physical appearance. Usually the false belief is that the body is somehow diseased, abnormal or changed. A specific example of this delusion is delusional parasitosis which is when one feels infested with insects, bacteria, mites, spiders, lice, fleas, worms, or other organisms.
Delusion of poverty: Person strongly believes they are financially incapacitated. Although this type of delusion is less common now, it was particularly widespread in the days preceding state support.
Asyndesi: an alternate term for loosening of association. A milder form of derailment of thought, it is marked by the individual leaping from topic to topic which have only the most tenuous, if any, connection with each other.
Clouding of consciousness, also known as brain fog or mental fog, is a global impairment in higher central nervous functioning. All aspects of cognitive functioning are affected. On mental status examination it presents as disorientation in time, place and person. Includes memory difficulties caused by failure to register and recall. Impaired perception functioning leads to illusions and hallucinations. This causes agitation and distress and secondary delusions.
Déjà pensé: when a completely new thought sounds familiar to a person and he feels as he has thought the same thing before at some time.This feeling can be caused by seizures which occur in certain parts of the temporal lobe and possibly other areas of the brain.
Derailment: a thought disorder characterized by discourse consisting of a sequence of unrelated or only remotely related ideas. The frame of reference often changes from one sentence to the next.
Dereistic Thinking: an old descriptive term used to refer to thinking that is not in alignment with the facts of reality but follow illogical, idiosyncratic reasoning. This term is emphasizes a disconnection from reality.
Écho de la pensée: meaning "thought echo" in French, refers to thoughts that seem to be spoken aloud just after being produced. The individual hears the 'echo' of his thoughts in the form of a voice after he has made the thought.
Flight of ideas: describes excessive speech at a rapid rate that involves causal association between ideas. Links between ideas may involve usage of puns or rhymes. It is typical of mania, classically seen in bipolar disorder.
Gedankenlautwerden: occurs when an individual hears thoughts spoken aloud. Thoughts are heard in the form of a voice at the same time as they are thought, not afterwards.
Idée fixe: an alternate term for an overvalued idea. In this condition, a belief that might seem reasonable both to the individual and to other people comes to dominate the thinker’s life.
Ideas of alienation: thoughts that one's own body part or action is not of one's own.
Ideas of influence: thoughts that one's own action is caused by someone else's will or some other external cause.
Ideas of reference: delusional beliefs that general events are personally directed at oneself. For example, someone might believe that he or she is receiving messages from the TV that are directed especially at him or her.
Jargon aphasia: characterized by incoherent, meaningless speech with neologisms (newly invented words). These are unconscious thoughts that find expression when one is off one's guard and must be consciously repressed.
Knight's move thinking: a complete loosening of associations where there is no logical link between one idea and the next. Imagine a knight on a chessboard where the movement can be any L shaped direction, making it difficult to track..
Thought blocking (also referred to as thought withdrawal): refers to an abrupt stop in the middle of a train of thought; the individual might or might not be unable to continue the idea.
DELUSIONS
Affect illusion: Illusions (misperceptions) associated with or based on changes with mood. For example, at midnight a person may take a shadow as a ghost, but in the early part of night this may not be the case.
Alice in Wonderland syndrome: individuals perceive objects (including animals and other humans, or parts of humans, animals, or objects) as appearing substantially smaller than in reality. Generally, the object appears far away or extremely close at the same time. Alternate term for this is somaesthetic aura.
Apophanous perception: an alternate term for delusional perception. A true perception to which an individual attributes a false meaning. For example, a person may see written "No Trespassing" on a board and may infer from this that intelligence agencies are spying on him.
Autoscopy: a reduplicative hallucination of "seeing one's own body at a distance" and the person sees it from the place where he or she is located. Autoscopy is sometimes used synonymously with out-of-body experience.
Confabulation: a confusion of imagination with memory, and/or the confusion of true memories with false memories.
Dermatozoenwahn: an alternate term for organic hallucinosis and delusional parasitosis, the continuous belief that one's skin or body has been infested by parasites or insects. This state cannot be diagnosed if the hallucinatory state is produced while the individual is under the influence of drugs or alcohol, or if the individual fulfills the criterion for delirium. In general, if an individual is under the influence of a drug, or experiencing the symptoms of withdrawal from that drug, this condition is not psychiatric but medical, and termed formication.
Folie à deux: a delusional disorder shared by two or more people who are closely related emotionally. One has real psychosis while the symptoms of psychosis are induced in the other due to close attachment to the one with psychosis. Separation usually results in symptomatic improvement in the one who is not psychotic.
Fregoli delusion: a person has a delusional belief that various different people are in fact one certain person, even if there is no physical resemblance. It is considered a form of delusional misidentification in which the false identification of familiar people occurs in strangers.
Lilliputian hallucinations: characterized by an abnormal perception of objects being shrunken in size but normal in detail.
Paraprosopia: a delusion in which a person believes he or she has seen a face transform into a grotesque form - often described as a 'monster', 'vampire', 'werewolf' or similar.
Paraschemazia: characterized by a distortion of body image. It can be caused by hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD and mescalin, epileptic auras, and sometimes migraines.
Pareidolia: a vague or random stimulus is mistakenly perceived as recognizable. A common example is perceiving the image of a face in clouds. Pareidolia is a type of illusion and hence called pareidolic illusion.
Reduplicative hallucinations: a perception of seeing a double. Particular kinds of reduplicative hallucination include autoscopy, heautoscopy and out-of-body experiences.
Reduplicative paramnesia: a delusional misidentification syndrome in which one's surroundings are believed to exist in more than one physical location.
Reflex hallucinations: occur when true sensory input in one sense leads to production of a hallucination in another sense. For example seeing a doctor writing (visual) and then feeling him writing across one's stomach (tactile).
Wahneinfall: an alternate term for autochthonous delusions or delusional intuition. This is one of the types of primary delusions in which a firm belief comes into the individual's mind 'out of the blue' or as an intuition, therefore called delusional intuition.
COMMON DELUSIONS
Delusion of control: False belief that another person, group of people, or external force controls one's general thoughts, feelings, impulses, or behavior.
Cotard delusion: False belief that one does not exist or has died.
Delusional jealousy: False belief that a spouse or lover is having an affair, with no proof to back up their claim.
Delusion of guilt or sin (or delusion of self-accusation): Ungrounded feeling of remorse or guilt of delusional intensity.
Delusion of mind being read: False belief that other people can know one's thoughts.[
Delusion of thought insertion: Belief that another thinks through the mind of the person.
Delusion of reference: False belief that insignificant remarks, events, or objects in one's environment have personal meaning or significance. "Usually the meaning assigned to these events is negative, but the 'messages' can also have a grandiose quality.
Erotomania: False belief that another person is in love with them.
Grandiose religious delusion: Belief that the affected person is a god or chosen to act as a god.
Somatic delusion: Delusion whose content pertains to bodily functioning, bodily sensations or physical appearance. Usually the false belief is that the body is somehow diseased, abnormal or changed. A specific example of this delusion is delusional parasitosis which is when one feels infested with insects, bacteria, mites, spiders, lice, fleas, worms, or other organisms.
Delusion of poverty: Person strongly believes they are financially incapacitated. Although this type of delusion is less common now, it was particularly widespread in the days preceding state support.
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