

A person with a delusion will hold firmly to the belief regardless of evidence to the contrary. The key feature of a delusion is the degree to which the person is convinced that the belief is true. The false belief is not accounted for by the person’s cultural or religious background or his or her level of intelligence. “There is no delusional idea held by the mentally ill which cannot be exceeded in its absurdity by the conviction of fanatics, either individually or en masse”…HocheĪ delusion is a belief that is clearly false and that indicates an abnormality in the affected person’s content of thought.
