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Other forms of delusions include, delusions of persecution (“someone is following me”) or grandeur (“I am a king”).
Disorganized & Delusional Thinking
This
morning when I was at Hillside [Hospital], I was making a movie. I was surrounded by movie stars … I’m Marry Poppins. Is this room painted blue to get me upset? My grandmother died four weeks after my eighteenth birthday.”
(Sheehan, 1982)
This monologue illustrates fragmented, bizarre thinking with distorted beliefs, called delusions (“I’m
Mary Poppins”).