When I was 10 years old, my mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia, a mental illness characterized by mood swings and paranoid delusions.

Delusions and hallucinations are hallmarks of the illness.

Delusions are fixed and false beliefs that aren't responsive to evidence, and hallucinations are false sensory experiences.

And it's important, if you try to model this, you can think about normal development as a loss of cortical mass, loss of cortical gray matter, and what's happening in schizophrenia is that you overshoot that mark, and at some point, when you overshoot, you cross a threshold, and it's that threshold where we say, this is a person who has this disease, because they have the behavioral symptoms of hallucinations and delusions.

I'm reading the news at six." Now it's down on my medical records that Eleanor has delusions that she's a television news broadcaster.

avoid at all costs....I am not a big fan of movies that re-enact real life events...I thought Munich was an absolute piece of garbage movie...this one is right up there...maybe they could have filmed the cast being taken out back and beaten once the film was over for such an abysmal performance.... Now I upset myself...toss this one on the fire, along with House of Sand and Fog...and quite frankly, even if I were a journalist with heroic delusions, I would definitely stay out of a hellhole country like this couple was in....Angelina has done nothing to ever recommend her as a good actress...without her looks she would be nowhere, like this movie...

Delusions in example sentence

More example sentences with word delusions