Talk:Monothematic delusion

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This is extremely funny. I have personally experienced all of these delusions at least once in my life, except Somatoparaphrenia.

God delusion

190.174.78.177 (talk) 04:50, 4 December 2009 (UTC) Can anyone tell me why the following doesn't fit?

"God delusion: The belief that a supernatural entity created the Universe and looks after the believer."

Because the clinical definition of delusion precludes beliefs that are commonly accepted by other members of the person's culture or subculture. --129.11.13.73 (talk) 17:26, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

monosymptomatic hypochonriacal psychosis

I want to wikilink the above term. This is the context: Olfactory reference syndrome. Is this the correct place to link to? Lesion (talk) 17:45, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

i see that you DID link to this page from the ORS page. (with no discussion provided here, i would have done the same, btw.) but i find this question/issue extremely interesting, and it brings up a few questions (for me, at least). i would put this on your Talk page, as this Talk page is not for this type of discussion, but that's not a possibility. so i'll leave it here, and hope i don't step on too many toes by doing so.

first, the inclusion of "hypochondriacal." i'm not sure that monothematic delusions (at least the ones used as examples here) are hypochondriacal. i question whether OSR is, as well. the delusion of OSR is that of offensive body disorders, right? to be hypochondriacal, it would also have to have the delusion that the delusional body odors are caused by an, as yet, undiagnosed serious illness. wouldn't it? and that, in itself, would take it out of the "monothematic" delusion category. so, a related question is:

do those with OSR uniformly believe the odors are caused by an undiagnosed serious illness? (or enough that it would 'count' [medically/statistcally/whatever] as a uniform characteristic of the syndrome.)

the other big question involves the definition of "delusional disorder." here on WP, it says that "auditory and visual hallucinations cannot be prominent, though olfactory or tactile hallucinations related to the content of the delusion may be present." that right there seems to say that many of the examples presented as "monothematic delusions" cannot be classified as "delusional disorders" (because of the prominence of visual hallucinations). although, again, this brings up a related question:

does, say, a capgras or fregoli delusion involve a visual hallucination?? (i can't say these conditions have "delusional perceptions." rather...okay, i guess if i get to this, then i negate my assumption that they have visual hallucinations at all--that the images being 'seen/sensed' are real and true, but the interpretation of the input is faulty.

so, right there is a difference between the examples of monothematic delusions presented here, and OSR--OSR requires a faulty input. or is that backwards? is it a faulty belief, FIRST, that causes an olfactory hallucination?? and yet, not all people with OSR have olfactory hallucinations.

see how this gets confusing? at least, I'M confused.

i find this all fascinating, and i'm also trying to figure out where a disorder like OCD would/does fit in all of this.Colbey84 (talk) 06:38, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Organic Dysfunction

"organic dysfunction" is linked to the WP article "Disease." perhaps this was, at one point, "Organic Disease," but has since been redirected to the "Disease" page. my point being, that when i click on "organic dysfunction" here to see what, exactly, the meaning is for this particular topic/article, there is nothing relevant to be found. rather, it goes directly to the "Disorder" section of the "Disease" page, and that section includes all types of disorders, and not just those that might be considered "organic."Colbey84 (talk) 06:43, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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