Sentence examples for delusion thinking from inspiring English sources

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But the behaviour of private sector "knights" is harder to explain: they are prone to delusion (thinking they are working for the common good when they are really working for private profit).

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If residents can be forgiven for presuming to know New York, then visitors to this city, including Republican delegates from around the country, can be forgiven for embracing a similar delusion: of thinking that they, too, know New York, based on a devotion to "Law and Order" and a three-day business trip to a Sheraton near Times Square.

His delusion involved thinking the world was watching what he called the "TrumanKev Show" during his manic episodes.

But besides this, surely there are no other historical instances of the Christian elect being deceived.' Independent Voter: 'I might add the three-hundred-year European witchcraze where the entire spectrum of Christian intellect--from illiterate peasants to judges and university professors--suffered a mass delusion in thinking witches were afoot and riding brooms.

Nearly 6,800 people were followed up to the age of 12. Parents were regularly asked about any sleep problems in their children and at the end of the study the children were assessed for psychotic experiences such as hallucinations, delusions and thinking their thoughts were being controlled.

Apparently, the delusion was in thinking Trump could be "presidential" and that Hillary Clinton was so unpopular that literally anyone, even a racist ignoramus, could beat her.

This might include having hallucinations, delusions, or confused thinking.

These include constant feelings of worthlessness and hopelessness, continual thoughts of death, suicidal thoughts, uncontrolled crying, delusions, and slowed thinking and physical responses.

Denial, delusion, magical thinking, call it what you will, they believe it.

So sometimes it's about reducing the time acting upon or thinking about delusion, not letting them take over your life.

The phenothiazines suppress or eliminate such symptoms as hallucinations, delusions, agitation, and disordered thinking.

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