What would the diagnosis be for.....?!
Question: What would be the diagnosis for a person that believed a super powerful being was controlling everything around them because this being loved the person. The person truely thought whenever something good happened it was because the being did it for them. This person also thinks there is an enemy trying to destroy them and controlling all the "bad" people around them. "Bad" people include anyone that doesn't believe the same as them.
Answers: What would be the diagnosis for a person that believed a super powerful being was controlling everything around them because this being loved the person. The person truely thought whenever something good happened it was because the being did it for them. This person also thinks there is an enemy trying to destroy them and controlling all the "bad" people around them. "Bad" people include anyone that doesn't believe the same as them.
These are delusional thoughts in my opinion. Delusional thoughts can manifest itself in a number of disorders. Two that come to mind immediately, are bipolar and schizophrenia.
Thinking about it a bit more, it could also be distorted instrusive thoughts which would fall under the OCD category.
I'm not a psychiatrist, so I do not have the definitive answer. Go speak to one. That is my sound advice.
This seems to be a loaded question. Perhaps it's better addressed in the Religion & Spirituality section.
schizo possibly
I would say that the person has been reading the Bible?
spiritual..you are close to salvation Jesus loves you and knocks at the door of your heart won't you let him in today?
I'd say that perhaps the individual is a borderline solipsist. Essentially, solipsism is the belief that the only real thing or person is that person himself, stating that no other object is real or cannot be proven to be real. It is the position that nothing exists outside of his mind, or present situation.
Dr. James Jeah MD
It sounds like schizophrenia Please try to make him see a psychiatrist before he hurts himself or others. He Will not get better without help. He is definitely in a bad state, and I hope you will be able to encourage him to see a psychiatrist. I'm sorry about your friend.
Looking to God as the good and loving spirit and Satan as the bad and evil.===
It could be many things, either way the person needs to see a psychiatrist, and shouldn't feel ashamed to do so. It really needs to be a pdoc, not a family physician.
The thing that comes to my mind first is schizophrenia because of the delusions, loss of reality, and disorganized thinking.
I do not have a medical degree and it sounds like this person and everyone close to him/her could benefit if he/she saw a pdoc AND a therapist.
Paranoid delusional, I think...
What would be the diagnosis for a person that came home everyday to his wife and children asked, "Who are you people? Why are you in my house?" The person really had no recollection of his marriage or the birth of his children (or perhaps tried really hard to forget that stuff). This person also thinks that the marriage license has been edited numerous times and that the woman is actually not real but a figment of everyone else's imagination, a figment which now manifests itself to him. The children are obviously in on it as they back up what the woman says and so go against what the husband believes to be true.
If the diagnosis is 100% accurate, I would say the person is, as you say, schizo!
On the other hand, the person may be one of many who have been brought up in an evangelical fundamentalist setting and like almost any human being, has swallowed everything hook, line and parental persuasion.
This can be expected of almost any child. That is to say that children believe what their parents tell them; If they say that Santa exists, their is no doubt in their innocent minds.
If not told differently they may believe it all their lives. If you don't believe me, come with me to a few Mayan villages in Guatemala and listen to the fantastic things they believe about the mystical owners of the mountains and volcanoes.
So someone who has been brought up in this environment will ignorantly regurgitate what they have been spoon fed since infancy.
But if a person has actually been visited by the Holy Spirit and convinced by God himself that the testimony concerning Jesus Christ is real, and has been convicted of their sin and turned to God for forgiveness, they will not fit the description you have given entirely.
I thank God that I was not raised in a church and filled with a lot of traditional thought, because now, my belief is based on Jesus and his work in my life, and my acceptance of the Bible as being divinely inspired is through the whisperings of God himself in the form of the Holy Spirit.
The diagnosis for a person like this would be Spirit filled.
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I would diagnose this person as someone who is Heaven bound.