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Religious and Spiritual Delusions in Schizophrenia

For many people religion is one way that we understand the world and give meaning to our lives and certainly religion and spirituality play an important part in many people’s experiences of schizophrenia.
For some sufferers religious delusions or intense religiously-based irrational thinking may be a component of their symptoms, for instance they may believe that they have been sent by God to become a great prophet.
However for other people religion and spirituality play an important role in their recovery process.
They may find that their spiritual beliefs and practices help them to make sense of the world in a way that they could not when they were suffering from psychotic delusions and that membership of a supportive faith community provides vital fellowship when faced by the everyday problems of living with a serious mental health condition.

In this series of information sheets we look at spirituality from a number of different perspectives both when it becomes a problem as in religious delusions and when it becomes a supportive component of a recovery process.

The content heading in the article are;

• What are religious Delusions?
  How common are religious delusions in schizophrenia?
  Religiosity and psychiatry: How is religiosity diagnosed?
  Why do people with schizophrenia experience religious delusions?
  Why is religiosity significant?
  Schizophrenics in Church Communities
  What can be done about religious delusions?

https://www.livingwithschizophreniauk.o ... zophrenia/

a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behaviour, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation

TimeSeeker wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 8:18 am

a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behaviour, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation

So... the above is the dictionary definition for 'schizophrenia'. It seems to share many overlaps with dualism.

So here is another question you can't answer (No.5 is it? I've lost count): What is the difference between schizophrenia and dualism?

TimeSeeker wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 8:18 am

a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behaviour, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation

So... the above is the dictionary definition for 'schizophrenia'. It seems to share many overlaps with dualism.

So here is another question you can't answer (No.5 is it? I've lost count): What is the difference between schizophrenia and dualism?

Walker wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 8:52 am

TimeSeeker wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 8:18 am

a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behaviour, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation

So... the above is the dictionary definition for 'schizophrenia'. It seems to share many overlaps with dualism.

So here is another question you can't answer (No.5 is it? I've lost count): What is the difference between schizophrenia and dualism?

This may help in sorting things out into acceptable order, but don’t ask me how.

That’s up to you.

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Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 8:54 am As usual you thinking in this case is very shallow and narrow.
You have to present the context.

"Drawing distinctions without a difference."

Walker wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 9:04 am

"Drawing distinctions without a difference."

That just sounds like word-play.