Maybe they should be treated as reflections of psychological themes inside the person that it would be useful to explore. Instead of negate. Who knows?
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Re delusions, a thought provoking article from 2008
hey,
It’s just faulty brain chemistry acting on how you interact with the world.
It’s not profound and it’s not anything special for folks like me! I’ve seen my subconscious spill out into the real world and it wasn’t anything profound!
Seriously. Drugs mimic certain mental states and that should be a good indicator! You look at the history and explanations of hallucinogenic interactions with the human mind and you see some similar things!
Call it what you’d like! But in simple terms it’s faulty brain chemistry which can be helped by modern medications!
A friend in the struggle,
rogueone.
Exactly.
Allow me to use my own delusions as an example. For my young childhood I believed I was a powerful werewolf princess. I also happened to be absolutely terrified of monsters coming and killing me in my sleep. This delusion made me strong and powerful enough to overcome my fears.
During adolescence, I switched from the werewolf delusions to a host of different ones. Some, like two angels controlling whether my day was good or bad, were created as a way to explain strange patterns I noticed in my life. Others, such as my believing I was God or the next messiah, were because this was a time in life where I started doing worse in school and wasn’t as on top of things and unique and praised as much I used to. I felt unimportant and untalented and these delusions of grandeur made me feel as though I mattered.
Then came my paranoid delusions in later life, that demons were after me, trying to kill me, I’d be kidnapped and raped by the devil in hell, etc. These directly correlated with my severe anxiety at the time. High levels of anxiety lead to highly negative, frightening and stressful delusions to mirror my internal emotional state.
You can learn a lot about a person and what their personal demons are by their delusions.