The following questions are related to ‘Delusions’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: I wondered what your view was regarding hearing voices and seeing images? Is there any difference if you hear voices coming from outside, to voices which you think are occurring inside your head? From my very limited knowledge, it appears that voices that talk to you from the outside would be more likely linked [...]
Q: I have a childhood friend who became paranoid schizophrenic as an adult. Her case is severe and from time to time she contacts me to tell me about her delusions and ask me if I think they are real or not. The contacts are in flurries and then a long interval, sometimes years, will [...]
Q: My 15-year-old son is currently undergoing assessment for Aspergers, and 80% of what I see fits the diagnosis — except that he has very recently started to mention mild delusions or hallucinations of a type. Can this be due to him trying to figure out why he is so different? The last two years [...]
Q: I am suffering from serious problems. Mainly initially it used to be in sexual fantasies. Now I am feeling my eyes have become corrupt as some bad thing filled my eyes and my whole body is intoxicated (may be due to bad hormone levels) and I am frequently having bad thoughts. For some time [...]
Q: What do you call a person that is constantly thinking that you took something from them. Is it a disorder? A: There’s not a lot of information in your question. Took what — money, lawnmower, food, drugs, etc.? What age is the individual? What’s your relationship to them? Have you taken something from them [...]
Q: Um… I don’t quite know how to put this… I’ve been a pretty messed up person throughout my life. I’ve been in and out of hospitals and been through more therapists than I can remember. I want to know. I hear things sometimes, when it’s really quiet… I see things as well…and not really [...]
Q: What would you say to someone that has had their brainwave watched for as long as that person has been living and has to listen to those people stating the most extreme and stupid things? That same person knows that everywhere he goes there are people taking peoples’ pictures all around his physical person. [...]
