Sentence examples for delusions including from inspiring English sources

Schizophrenics are subject to a wide variety of delusions, including many that are characteristically bizarre or absurd.

More controversially, he shows Smith as subject to a string of fanciful delusions, including a vision of his gun-waving father as he kills Herb Clutter.

Deeply psychotic, she was hallucinating, had many delusions, including the conviction that she was a surgeon, and was violent to herself, cutting and burning her body to rid herself of the demon she believed dwelled inside.

Doctors who have examined Staley on death row have said that he talks in a robot-like monotone yet has "grandiose and paranoid" delusions, including the beliefs that he invented the first car and marketed a character from Star Trek.

In 1986, when Mr. Lichtenstein was working as a producer and director for a short-lived late-night television series called "Jimmy Breslin's People," he began having paranoid thoughts and delusions, including the conviction that the F.B.I had him under surveillance and that he was receiving messages through his television set.

Bala's family allegedly told this doctor that Bala had been suffering delusions, including referring to himself as a "governor," according to The Independent.

Other so-called bizarre delusions include mirrored self misidentification (the delusion that the person in the mirror is not one's reflection but a stranger), and the Capgras delusion (the delusion that the spouse or a relative has been replaced by an impostor).

The delusions include political, economic and anti-science-based decisions and policies that appear likely to predominate for some time, as Paul Krugman and others have argued.

Clinically significant delusions included feelings of being watched, unfounded ideas that others are saying negative things about the individual (which are distinguished from paranoia and self-consciousness), and a belief that ghost is communicating directly with the individual.

Clinically significant delusions included bizarre ideas of being watched (e.g., by police using hidden security cameras in the home), unfounded ideas that others are saying negative things about the individual (which are distinguished from normal teenage self-consciousness), and a belief that ghosts are communicating directly with the individual.

Since then, psychologists have used it to conjure many other types of delusion, including erotomania, Capgras syndrome – the sensation that your loved ones have been replaced by a doppelganger – and mirror misidentification, in which people fail to recognise their own reflections.