Posted by danf on October 19, 2000, at 12:49:50
In reply to Re: What are hallucinations?, posted by R.Anne on October 18, 2000, at 22:14:43
Hallucinations are errors in perception. You can hallucinate any sensory experience. They are false & do not exist.
feel bugs crawing on you that are not there. smell food cooking or 'evil' odors. you hear voices talking to you. you see things that are not there, like devils or angels or snakes, etc.
Delusions are errors of thought. You do not detect the things by your senses, but think about them. You think you are rich. You think you are god or the devil or an angel, etc. You think other people are out to do you harm, etc.
There is very little cultural adjustment needed to validate or determine either. Language differences makes for much more difficulty in evaluating both, than does cultural differences.
Many people with psychosis have both, a jumbled distorted thought pattern & a percection of things that are not there.
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