Persistent delusional disorder typically affects individuals aged 35-55 and is characterized by non-bizarre, systematized delusions that are rooted in reality and cultural norms. The delusions, which include persecutory, erotomanic, hypochondriacal, and jealous types, last for at least three months. Personality and insight remain intact in most cases, with 30% experiencing full recovery and 20% severe impairment. Predisposing factors include paranoid traits, stubbornness, immigration, deafness, blindness, and low education.
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Persistent delusional disorder typically affects individuals aged 35-55 and is characterized by non-bizarre, systematized delusions that are rooted in reality and cultural norms. The delusions, which include persecutory, erotomanic, hypochondriacal, and jealous types, last for at least three months. Personality and insight remain intact in most cases, with 30% experiencing full recovery and 20% severe impairment. Predisposing factors include paranoid traits, stubbornness, immigration, deafness, blindness, and low education.
Persistent delusional disorder typically affects individuals aged 35-55 and is characterized by non-bizarre, systematized delusions that are rooted in reality and cultural norms. The delusions, which include persecutory, erotomanic, hypochondriacal, and jealous types, last for at least three months. Personality and insight remain intact in most cases, with 30% experiencing full recovery and 20% severe impairment. Predisposing factors include paranoid traits, stubbornness, immigration, deafness, blindness, and low education.
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Persistent delusional disorder typically affects individuals aged 35-55 and is characterized by non-bizarre, systematized delusions that are rooted in reality and cultural norms. The delusions, which include persecutory, erotomanic, hypochondriacal, and jealous types, last for at least three months. Personality and insight remain intact in most cases, with 30% experiencing full recovery and 20% severe impairment. Predisposing factors include paranoid traits, stubbornness, immigration, deafness, blindness, and low education.
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Persistent delusional disorder
Age group 35-55 • Non-bizarre systematised
delusions Single or divorced Duration 3 months or more • Foothold in reality, keeping with Predisposing factors: cultural norms Auditory & visual hallucinations not prominent while olfactory & tactile • paranoid premorbid traits hallucinations may be prominent • Stubborn • immigrants • Personality remains intact • deafness • blindness • Full recovery in 30%, severe • educational disadvantage impairment in 20% Delusional disorder Sub-types Persecutory Erotomania • Victim of a plot • Someone of higher status • Everyday actions viewed as lover her offensive • Everyday encounters related to affair Hypochondriacal disorder • delusional belief about bodily ill health Dysmorphophobia • Olfactory, dysmorphic, infestation • Presumed defect in type appearance • Mirror checking & Delusional jealousy assurance seeking • Delusion of wife's infidelity • Search for proof & confession Psychoses Schizoaffective disorder Brief psychotic episode • Prevalence less than 1% • Pre existing personality • More common in women disorder • At least one symptom of • Female gender schizophrenia and one of • Younger age of onset affective disorder for at least • Strong cultural influences on two weeks presentation • Family history suggestive of • Acute onset affective disorders • Duration of less than 2 • 20% deteriorating course months • Perplexity, confusion, rapid shifts in affect, disorganized behaviour
