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This is probably why it's very hard to help someone who is under legitimately delusional feelings of gang stalking, because those who legitimately are and those
by anonporridge 5y ago
This is probably why it's very hard to help someone who is under legitimately delusional feelings of gang stalking, because those who legitimately are and those who are delusional are likely to look the same to outsiders, and will always be considered delusional.
If a person is suffering from strong enough paranoia to classify themselves as a "targeted individual", then they've probably walked through the scenario that they might be crazy but also realized that if their paranoia is accurate, then they would also have appeared to be crazy.
It's a vicious cycle.
- TechBro8615 5y agoI feel similarly about describing political aspirants as narcissistic or sociopathic based on their "delusions of grandeur" – what about when they actually become president? Not so delusional anymore, I guess? It calls into question the validity of such a diagnosis in the first place, as anything more than a measurement of deviance from some arbitrary and counterfactually ambiguous statistical mean. It's almost as if the entire field of psychiatry harbors delusions of grandeur...
- alphabettsy 5y ago"delusions of grandeur" can mean many things. Someone who thinks they’re a genius and wins a popularity contest is not now provably a genius. Someone who believes themselves to be the fastest athlete is not so when their opponent falls down and they win the race.