Delusional Disorder

Question 1

People with delusional disorder -do they have hallucinations or thought disorder?

Answer 1

No; just a crystallized, often single delusion

Question 2

Define Capgras delusion

Answer 2

a delusion that someone has been replaced by an imposter

Question 3

Define Fregoli delusion

Answer 3

a delusion that different ppl are in fact a single person who changes appearances or is in disguise

Question 4

Define vampirism and lycanthropy

Answer 4

vampirism -belief that one is a vampire

lycanthropy -belief that one is a werewolf

Question 5

What is folie a deux/shared delusion disorder?

Answer 5

syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief are transmitted from one individual to another

Question 6

What is cotard’s delusion?

Answer 6

delusion that one is dad, do not exist, missing organs

Question 7

What is depersonalization-derealization disorder?

Answer 7

feeling disconnected from one’s physicality, feeling as though one is not completely occupying the body, not feeling in control of one’s speech or phsyical movements.

Question 8

cathinones are in designer drugs… They have similar effects to?

Answer 8

amphetamine and cocaine

Question 9

What is krokodil?

Answer 9

heroin-like drug that rots flesh, bone.

Question 10

What is Morgellons?

Answer 10

aka delusional parasitosis

• somatic delusion/paranoid delusion
• pt believes they are infested, can see and often see or feel parasites in or on them.

Question 11

What is erotomanic delusions?

Answer 11

affected person believes that another person, usu a stranger of high status is in love with him or her. Stalking in these circumstances is delusional