at culture, especially with ethnic issues, to decide if strange beliefs are really psychotic. There are delusions of paranoia (plots against them), delusions of grandeur (exaggerated ideas of importance or identity) and somatic delusions (false belief in having a terminal illness).An hallucination is sensory perception (seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling) without an appropriate stimulus, like hearing
week. They may also include a decreased need for sleep, racing thoughts or a sense that thoughts are out of control, rapid and often pressured speech, increased goal-directed activities or projects, hypersexuality, reckless behaviors and risk-taking, and delusions of grandeur. Associated delusions frequently center on an expansive sense of self that goes well beyond narcissism (eg, believing oneself
among patients with psychotic depression (47%) and schizophrenia (32%). The RDs frequently co-occurred with other types of delusions. When combined with delusions of grandeur, RDs were more often classified as bizarre and were accompanied by higher levels of positive psychotic symptoms. When combined with delusions of guilt, RDs were associated with higher levels of distress and a shorter disease
in treating common symptoms and that the treatment of patients appears to be undertaken on an ad hoc rather than on a scientific basis.I used to think all chiropractors were quacks, but my time here at RI has convinced me otherwise. Some of them are just physical therapist with delusions of grandeur. It's the rest who are quacks. * Log in to post commentsBy Johnny (not verified) on 10 Jan 2017 #permalink
with delusions of grandeur. * Log in to post commentsBy oracknows on 14 Feb 2017 #permalink In reply to by Mephistopheles… (not verified)The ACP lists a number of things for patients to do, or at least try to do, and a couple of things that might be done to patients; the latter being acupuncture and spinal manipulation. I suggest that all these things for patients to do, or be done to, simply fill in the time
is consistent with acupuncture having no specific effect for any condition and for all its claimed "effects" being due to placebo.The evidence for chiropractic is a little more complex, but, boiled down to its essence, not that much. I like to refer to chiropractors as undertrained physical therapists with delusions of grandeur. What I mean by that is that chiropractors claim to be able to treat a lot of diseases and conditions not related to the spine or musculoskeletal system through spinal manipulation, such as allergies, hence the delusions of grandeur. Whatever benefit might derive from chiropractic is likely limited to the effect of spinal manipulation on back pain, which could well be nonexistent.So, basically, in this draft FDA education blueprint for healthcare providers on managing chronic pain
Perusing the Physicians for Informed Consent website, it became obvious that the physicians and others listed there all have some kind of grift going. In my experience it's the mediocre ones who have delusions of grandeur who are attracted to this "maverick" ideology. * Log in to post commentsBy Science Mom (not verified) on 20 Apr 2017 #permalink -Getting tired of lying.Speaking of which Jake, how
. It uses a component called a "Science"Blog – a universal Seed Media component – to shout down ideas he doesn't like as being some form of bigotry. It can also control other computers, especially the one in his bedroom. Orac dislikes work that involves any deference to facts, enjoys gathering hate hoaxes and has delusions of grandeur."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake's_7 * Log in to post commentsBy hate stories and built by a pretentious hack named Adam Bly. It uses a component called a “Science”Blog – a universal Seed Media component – to shout down ideas it doesn’t like as being some form of bigotry. It can also control other SJWs, especially the ones who comment on its blog. Orac dislikes work that involves any deference to facts, enjoys gathering hate hoaxes and has delusions of grandeur
aluminum-containing vaccines for autism. I was reminded by this earlier this week when my e-mail was flooded with messages about new study being flogged by antivaxers in spectacularly ignorant ways, including three—yes, three—identical messages from a certain antivaxer with a severe case of Dunning-Kruger and delusions of grandeur basically challenging me to review this study and assuring me
, intellectually, and morally bankrupt an idea as I've heard in a long time. Also, behold the power of ALL CAPS. With bold yet.His delusions of grandeur get even more delusional, too:I’ve been very disappointed in the trolls because they haven’t been reading Saul Alinsky’s, Rules for Radicals, specifically Rule #13, “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” The idea is that it’s easier to go
, three—identical messages from a certain antivaxer with a severe case of Dunning-Kruger and delusions of grandeur basically challenging me to review this study and assuring me that antivaxers would be citing it for a long time. Well, whenever I receive messages like that, particularly annoying repetition, my answer is: Be very careful what you wish for.Also: Challenge accepted.Which brings us
. Derealization IX. Findings: Thought Process 1. Disorganized 2. Illogical 3. Blocking 4. Loosening of associations 5. Circumstantiality 6. Tangentiality 7. Flight of ideas 8. Verbigeration 9. Stereotyped thinking X. Findings: Thought Content 1. Delusions of being controlled by an outside force 2. Thought insertion 3. Thought withdrawal 4. Thought broadcasting 5. Delusions of grandeur or persecution 6
that have nothing to do with the spine. Many chiropractors are antivaccine, as well. It's not for nothing that I have frequently referred to chiropractors as inferior physical therapists with delusions of grandeur. If you don't believe me, consider that there is a movement among chiropractors to win the status of primary care provider, a role they are completely unqualified for.The issue of whether
, relaxation, and the like, but there are also acupuncture, which is a modality based on the vitalistic principles of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), such as the flow of qi, or "life energy." There's also chiropractic, and, as I like to say, chiropractors are incompetent physical therapists with delusions of grandeur, which tells me all the funds wasted on chiropractic would be better used hiring more
that most “integrative medicine” MDs, even prominent ones and particularly ones who work with naturopaths, have no clue about the level of pseudoscience and quackery that they’ve embraced. No clue at all."Yes David, no one has an utter clue but you, a cut-rate surgeon who blogs more than he treats patients. Have you ever heard the phrase "delusions of grandeur"? Its a common malady among PhDs
hearings and to explain how he could belong to an organization whose journal promotes such pseudoscience. * Log in to post commentsBy oracknows on 30 Nov 2016 #permalink In reply to by Frequent Lurker (not verified)The AAPS reminds me of that old cliched joke. What's the difference between God and a doctor. One has delusions of grandeur and the other will save your life.It's a cliche, but the old vision