Content Disorder Of Thought

Question 1

What are the disorders of content of thoughts

Answer 1

1- delusion
2-obsession
3-preoccupation
4-suicidal ideation

Question 2

What is delusion

Answer 2

False personal beliefs not consistent with a person’s intelligence or cultural background in spite of obvious proof that it is false and/or irrational (cannot be corrected by logic or reasons).

Question 3

What is systematized delusion

Answer 3

When they form a coherent system and appear to be logical.
e.g. paranoid delusion.

Question 4

What is unsystematized delusion

Answer 4

When a group of delusions are not related to each other or in a haphazard relation.

Question 5

What is another category of delusion ?

Answer 5

1- paranoid delusion
2- delusion of influence (control)
3-hypochondriacal delusion
4-depressive delusion
5-somatic delusion

Question 6

Types of paranoid delusions

Answer 6

1- delusion of grandeur
2- delusion of persecution
3-delusion of reference
4-erotic delusion
5-delusion of jealousy
6- delusion on infidelity
7- litigious delusion

Question 7

What is paranoid delusion?

Answer 7

it is an intense and strongly defended irrational suspicious belief.

Question 8

Delusion of grandeur

Answer 8

False belief that one is very powerful and important person

Question 9

delusion of persecution

Answer 9

False belief that one is chased by other

Question 10

Delusion of reference

Answer 10

False belief that the behavior of other refers to one self (people in street, radio, newspaper, are referring to him)

Question 11

Erotic delusion

Answer 11

False belief that there is a love story between oneself and famous person

Question 12

Delusion of jealousy

Answer 12

Conviction that the spouse has some definite relation with someone else

Question 13

Delusion of infidelity

Answer 13

False belief derive from pathological jealousy that one lover is unfaithful (it is an extreme of jealousy delusion)

Question 14

Litigious delusion

Answer 14

Patient writes complain and sends them to responsible person
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Question 15

Delusion of influence

Answer 15

• Delision of control
• false belief that one is being controlled by others or agencies

Question 16

Types of depressive delusions

Answer 16

1- delusion of self blame, guilt, or sins
2- delusion of poverty
3 nihilistic delusion

Question 17

Delusion of self blame guilt or sins

Answer 17

In which that patient that he is wicked full of sins and unfit to live with other people (unworthy)

Question 18

Delusion of poverty

Answer 18

False belief that he lost everything in life

Question 19

Nihilistic delusion

Answer 19

False belief that a part of his body doesn’t exist or he doesn’t exist (dead)

Question 20

Hypochondriacal delusion

Answer 20

Patient has false belief that he has physical disease like cancer stomach that is not based on real organic pathology

Question 21

Obsessive of thoughts

Answer 21

An obsession is a feeling of compulsion to repeat some mental or physical act, which the patient resists it, the patient recognized that it is meaningless and the patient struggles it.

Question 22

What is the difference between delusion and obsession

Answer 22

Thedifferencebetweendelusionand obsession is that the latter is more absurd and the patient is aware ‘of the absurdity
and resists it most of the time , while the patient fights for his delusion.

Question 23

Preoccupation

Answer 23

Centering of thought content around a particular idea associated with strong affective tone

Question 24

Suicidal ideation

Answer 24

It is the recurrent idea affecting the individual to put and end by himself to his own life