The newfound ability to buy seemingly anything at the click of a mouse, the promise of sudden riches through day trading and the hype about dot-com millionaires have probably fanned unhealthy delusions of omnipotence in American society, he said.
In 2015, for instance, the military's Jade Helm 13 exercise was a good rabbit hole for the mildly paranoid to explore, but it also seemed to be a trigger for people who probably suffered from delusions.
While their finders hail these oddities as a strange new form of microbe teeming with tendrils, their colonies seeming to grow like wild, skeptics see them as probably the newest delusion in a global hunt for the smallest living things.
This native confidence is likely to be functional: in a world of profound uncertainty, self-serving delusion probably helps people to get out of bed and chase their pet projects.
Copping amphetamines for her for several years probably encouraged her delusion that I was "on call".
Though my own diagnosis of schizophrenia in the late 1990s was probably incorrect, my delusion that I was being framed for a series of murders sweeping the nation was so severe and my psychosis so acute that I was given a 20 (out of 100) on what is known as a Global Assessment of Function (GAF) scale, a very low score that revealed just how incapacitated I was.
A person prone to delusions should probably not fly an airplane, and a pedophile should not teach children.
While coroner Ian Gray heard that Anderson suffered from delusions and probably an undiagnosed mental illness, police officers also described him as "intelligent" and "calculating".
David Sperbeck, the Alaska state psychiatrist who examined Monroe's mental health at trial, noted that he suffered from "one of the most severe cases of schizophrenia that I've ever seen", adding that on the day of the killing, Monroe had not taken the proper dosage of medication in five weeks and that he was probably suffering from psychotic delusions.
I think delusions are probably the most misunderstood mental health issue.
