Hallucinations and delusions are disorders of perception and thought which have an effect on emotions and the sick man. They occur in connection with various mainly psychiatric (psychotic) disorders, as well as alcohol and drug addiction.
Hallucinations are among the most serious sensory disorders, delusional perceptions arise independently of external stimuli, and one of them is entirely convinced. Among the most commonauditory hallucinations – you hear different sounds or words, phrases to monologues, you can have either a neutral character, arrogant or imperative (enjoin concerned about what to do). They occur frequently in schizophrenia. A special form of auditory hallucinations are also giving away ideas – the patient hears a voice, which he repeats what he thinks like literally read his thoughts. Furthermore, some diseases occur hallucinations visual (seeing white mice or other small animals, seeing people, shapes, etc.), Olfactory, gustatory, so called. Visceral hallucinations (body sensations often having sexual content), touch, movement (a false sense of movement own body) and others.
Hallucinations can also be seen in other parts of the body – eg. A person hears voices in his tooth.
Delusions are false beliefs arising on the basis of a psychotic morbid, sick they firmly believe and be governed by them. Delusions can be further supported by other phenomena – illusions, illusions and hallucinations revisit the above. Any effort to refute the fallacy neighborhood leads to the formation of a new error. With such people it is not at all easy and requires collaboration with a psychiatrist at the acute stage and placement in a psychiatric ward.
People suffering from such. So. Bipolar disorder (mania alternating phases with depressive periods).
Delusions can be paranoid (see. Flag paranoid) megalomaniac (conditional elevated mood – mania, the patient claims that example. Napoleon or the author of an invention) and mikromaniac (conditional depressed mood, in which a person eg. Thinks nu missing a body part that is sick or accused of a crime).
Delusions or hallucinations a person does not realize (unlike so. Pseudohallucination when he finally gets a preview).
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