‘Feelings’. ‘Knowing’. Mental health.
Let’s just mention the word delusion; having a belief (usually related to one’s self) in something that is demonstrably and objectively false.
The Cleveland Clinic also has this to say about delusional disorder;
“Delusional disorder, previously called paranoid disorder, is a type of serious mental illness — called a “psychosis”— in which a person cannot tell what is real from what is imagined. The main feature of this disorder is the presence of delusions, which are unshakable beliefs in something untrue. People with delusional disorder experience non-bizarre delusions, which involve situations that could occur in real life, such as being followed, poisoned, deceived, conspired against, or loved from a distance. These delusions usually involve the misinterpretation of perceptions or experiences. In reality, however, the situations are either not true at all or highly exaggerated.
People with delusional disorder often can continue to socialize and function quite normally, apart from the subject of their delusion, and generally do not behave in an obviously odd or bizarre manner. This is unlike people with other psychotic disorders, who also might have delusions as a symptom of their disorder. In some cases, however, people with delusional disorder might become so preoccupied with their delusions that their lives are disrupted.”
I think it is really important that more people recognise that people can have delusions but do not necessarily appear to be stereotypically mentally unwell or ‘crazy’ in all aspects of their life. They might be very logical about accounting for example but still hold a delusional belief about something else.
Of course some one who sincerely but delusionally believes they are Elvis might start dressing like Elvis, so it would become obvious in person.
Problems for the delusional person and other people comes where the delusion intersects with or crashes against, real life.
Interesting to talk about mental illness that involves delusions isn’t it.