
Glass men & killer doubles: a history of delusions
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Delusions Go Back as Far as People Do
Delusions are fixed false belief about themselves or aout the world, which can't be shaken. The principal types of delusion and have also remained fairly consistent over time. But first of all, i had another question on robert burton. And you mention that he himself suffered from bouts of melancholy. Was this particularly unusual for some one who is trying to understand, to treat delusion to suffer from it in some way themselves? Well, he's a very, very interesting person. He was obviously suffering melancholyi i'm pretty certain that he was plagued with depression all his lif what we now think of as depression, all his life. My theory is that he was experiencing a delusion of his
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