Delusional Disorder Analysis

Delusional disorder is a mental illness in which the patient presents with delusions, but with no accompanying prominent hallucinations, thought disorder, mood disorder, or significant flattening of affect. People suffer from that condition cannot make the difference between the reality and their imagination. The condition is considered as a very rare psychological condition. Most of the people who suffer from that condition tend to function and socialized normally outside of their delusion. Reports about delusional disorder have begun over 150 years ago. The delusional disorder has been created in 1977. The term paranoia is been used for centuries, comes from Greek “para”, meaning alongside, and noos or nous, meaning mind, intelligence. The Greek used this term to describe mental abnormalities. The term paranoia make its apparition again in the 17th century in the Modern World. In 1863, Karl Kahlbaum originate the term paranoia as a separate mental illness. They are six knowns different types of delusional disorder: erotomatic, grandiose, jealous, persecutory, somatic, mixed. We are going to …show more content…
They are trying to pretend someone they are not. “They may be convinced they have an exceptional talent, extravagant riches or a special relationship with a prominent person” (Mandal, 2014). The symptoms include exaggeration of power, self-worth, knowledge, identity. The two causes are: Delusion-as-defense is a defense against depression and emotion-consistent is the exaggerated emotions results.” A relationship has been claimed between the age of onset of bipolar disorder and the occurrence of GDs. According to Carlson et al. (2000), grandiose delusions appeared in 74% of the patients who were 21 or younger at the time of the onset, while they occurred only in 40% of individuals 30 years or older at the time of the onset” (Wikipedia, 2017). The only treatment for grandiose type is