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Nihilistic delusion: are false feelings that oneself or others don’t exist or are destroyed. When it is at extreme = Cotard syndrome. Pts often ocompleain of having lost therir possessions, status, strength, heart, blood, intestines, and complain that the world is reduced to nothingness.
Cenesthetic hallucinations: false sensations of things occurring in or to the body, most frequently of visceral origin.
Ganser syndrome: belongs to the dissociative disorders not otherwise specified. It has been reported in incarcerated populations and is called “prison psychosis”. It is characterized by the provision of approximate answer and is commonly associated with amnesia, disorientation, and perceptual disturbances.
An overvalued idea is an unreasonable sustained false belief maintained less firmly than deslusion. This patient’s belief is held very firmly and is causing enough stress to lead to a suicide attempt; it is therefore more consistent with a nihilistic delusion.
Verbigeration is a disorder of thought process in which a patient repeats certain meaningless phrases or words.
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