Challenging the notion that schizophrenic delusions are "behaviourally inert"

Is the path of double bookkeping in delusions an honorable one for sz to adopt?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225026765_Affective_Dimensions_of_the_Phenomenon_of_Double_Bookkeeping_in_Delusions

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I never double booked was fully committed

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Seemingly, I only do double bookkeping.

Alternative forms

  • double-bookkeeping

Noun

double bookkeeping ( uncountable )

  1. (psychology, psychiatry) The tendency, among those who experience delusions, to perceive reality and the delusions as both being real, while remaining unbothered by the discrepancy or inconsistencies between the two.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/double_bookkeeping

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What about being fully committed to both the delusion and reality?

Nope commited to one or the other and never both

Iā€™m committed sometimes, double booked other times.

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