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| A grossly exaggerated conception of the person's own importance. Such delusions range from the beliefs that the person has an important role in society to the belief that the person is actually Christ, Napoleon, or Hitler. |
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| False BELIEF. Inconsistent with external reality and have no validity to anyone except the person who believes in them. |
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| The feeling that one is being controlled by others, or even by machines or appliances. For ex, a man may believe that his actions are being controlled by the radio which is "forcing" him to perform certain actions against his will. |
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| The belief that the behavior of others or certain objects or events are personally referring to oneself. For ex, a woman believes that a soap opera is really telling the story of her life. Or a man believes that the sale items are at a local food market are targeted at his own particular dietary deficiencies. |
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| The belief that another person or persons are trying to inflict harm on the person or on that person's family or social group. For example a woman feels that an organized group of politically liberal individuals is attempting to destroy the right-wing, political organization to which she belongs |
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| Feelings of remorse without justification. A man holds himself responsible for a famine in Africa because of certain unkind or sinful actions that he believes he has committed. |
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| Inappropriate concerns about one's own body, typically relating to a disease. For example without any justification a woman believes she has brain cancer. Adding an even more bizarre note, she believes the ants have invaded her head and are eating away at her brain. |
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| A false belief usually associated with pathological jealousy involving the notion that one's lover is being unfaithful. A man lashes out in a violent rage at his wife insisting she is having a violent affair with the mailman because of her eagerness to get the mail every day. |
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| The idea that one's thoghts are being broadcast to others. A man believes that everyone else in the room can hear what he is thinking, or possibly that his thoughts are actually being carried over the airways on television or radio. |
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| The belief that thoughts are being inserted into one's mind by outside forces. For example a woman concludes that her thoughts are not her won but that they are being placed there to control her or upset her. |
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