Posted by smokeymadison on December 20, 2004, at 2:14:27
In reply to 1.2, posted by alexandra_k on December 20, 2004, at 1:31:28
so are you basically proposing that it takes a trigger as well as a "vulnerable" indidual to create a delusion? that it takes an abnormal experience as well as a certain "creativity" on the part of the individual to become delusional? if the delusion was created by a "normal" thought process, are they not unlike dreams? in that they are like dreams, i mean that the mind is attempting to make sense of phemomena that is not easy to make sense of. Or it may be that it is dangerous for the individual to take on "reality" as it actually is and so instead he or she resorts to an alternate explanation of the experience, in order to protect the integrity of the mind.
but i don't see the importance of focusing on utterances. i mean, they can be false, in that they do not reflect what one is thinking. sometimes people say things knowing that they really don't believe what they say. again, i am getting back to the fragmentation of the mind in that some small part knows that the delusion is a delusion, challenging the DSM's criteria, of course. i think that treatment would not be an option if somewhere the person did not know the delusion was a false belief. meds can't totally rewire the brain. it makes more sense to believe that they work by bringing the part that knows the truth to the forefront.
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