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Book Review: Truth or Delusion
Business networking never works for those who sit back and wait for it, according to Ivan Misner's book, "Truth or Delusion? Busting Networking's Biggest Myths."
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Deal With Delusions and Dementia
This article offers a neurologist's clear, step-by-step tips on how to respond to delusions, delirium and sudden increases in strange behavior in the dementia patient.
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Maya’s Delusion
Even though the power of mayic shadows is very strong, the power to transcend them is even stronger when we understand their value in educating and entertaining us.
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Psychosis and Delusions
Psychotic microepisodes are common in certain personality disorders, most notably the Borderline and Schizotypal.
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Sanity and Other Delusions
An outstanding mini-collection of short stories on psychological disintegration, with introduction by Stephen Volk and cover by J.K. Potter, by the author of The Impelled
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Hallucinations & Delusions
Why hallucinations and delusions may occur and what you can do if they happen.
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Summer Heat Brings on Delusions
Bad stories, overrated importance on the teen audience, and executives in denial are bringing soaps even further down in the summer.

Command Hallucinations
Command hallucinations are often thought to be the most serious. My friends and I "had to" do a lot of weird things, which we may laugh about now, but isn't there an implicit command in "having to do something"?
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Forché’s ‘Poem for Maya’
This poem serves as a prime example of a poet who has reckoned that the lack of understanding most readers of poetry possess will vouchsafe an entire career in poetry.
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God or Science, We Can Choose Both
The current debate between religion and science requires readers to pick a side, but why should they?
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In praise of GOD - Verse 5 & 6
Devotion can free a man from ignorance and delusion.
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Intelligent Design - Part Two
The Bible says that the "heavens declare [God's] handiwork." Does the complexity and order of the universe bring us closer to accepting the reality of God?
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Morgellons Syndrome
Morgellons syndrome is a condition that some people believe is caused by an as yet unidentified infectious agent. Others believe that it is delusional.
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Psychosis and Schizophrenia
an exploration of psychosis particularly in schizophrenia from the perspective of someone who experienced a psychotic episode
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Saturn Exits Leo and Enters Virgo
Saturn enters Virgo in early September and promises hard times for people with planets in Common Signs in their Natal Horocope. Financial worries, limited ability to act
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Schizophrenia - Conclusion
Schizophrenia and how it feels to be schizophrenic, effect on family members, treatment and outlook
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Sonnet 42: A Love Justified
<font face="times new roman" color=black size=2>Delusion might save us from heartache momentarily, but it is not an absolute defense. In Sonnet 42, William Shakespeare illustrates the pain involved in betrayal, and the efforts we make to save ourselves, and those we love from the truth.</font>
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What is Illusion?
The definition of Illusion from a personal development standpoint with an example of usage.
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Winners and Losers
Sometimes even in our delusions, we can learn some very important life lessons. My husband, Sonny, and I learned some very important ones during my days of hallucinations which were caused by the anesthetic used during my back surgery. If this is your first visit to this site, I hope you'll take the time to go back to the first of the articles on this topic. (Secret Wanderings after Surgery, July 2, 1999) There you'll find out why I'm writing these. I want to inform as many people as I can about the possibility of post-operative hallucinations caused by reactions to the anesthetic or medications. This segment is one of deep emotional growth and an important lesson which we learned.
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Caring for Alzheimer's Patients
Daily care of an Alzheimer's patient is as much an art as it is a skill. Here are some concrete suggestions to help deal with the behaviors of the Alzheimer's patient.
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In Fear and Trembling
This article continues with the post surgery hallucination story and though it's not particularly about herbs, it's very important information. I'll continue after completing this series to tell you about the herbs I've found which have helped me to heal after this stressful physical period. Even when I began to realize that much of what I thought I'd experienced after surgery was hallucinatory, I still had long periods of delusion. Finally however, I was becoming able to sort it out and use my reason and understand finally what was real and what wasn't. Being prepared ahead of time for this possibility would have saved myself and my family much anquish. That's the purpose of this series of articles. To inform people facing surgery of this possibility.
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Initiation
During this part of my delusions, I tried to pull out the central line that had been put into a vein in my neck. I have very difficult veins and they soon refused to give any more blood, so shortly after the operation, the central line was put in to make it easier on me, and everyone else, when blood had to be drawn. In my hallucination, during the middle of the night, I tried to pull it out, thinking it was a "pin" and the hospital had to call my husband in to calm me down. It was really a wild experience!
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Laughter: The Best Medicine
Laughter is truly an aid to health and well being! Even in the midst of pain and delirium, friends who bring laughter are a very welcome prescription to coming back to health. When you don't know what to give to a friend in the hospital, or to someone suffering prolonged illness, take them a few minutes of laughter. It will work wonders!
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SCHIZOPHRENIA
Part One of a two part article on Schizophrenia, explaining what it is, the symptoms, causes and treatments.
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Solacing Eyes
The phrase "two black eyes" operates first as an image and then as a symbol of eternal, spiritual love in Paramahansa Yogananda's poems about his beloved mother.
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The Downside of Mania II
Many people think "mania = good; depression = bad." I will not attempt a rise to the challenge of finding an upside of depression, but mania has a dark downside illustrated in the stories of those who struggle with it.
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The Schizophrenic Spectrum
Schizophrenia is considered by some to be part of a "schizophrenic spectrum" of mental illness, which also includes Schizotypal and Schizoid Personality Disorder.
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An Overview of Dementia
When a family member has dementia, family caregivers are at risk of physical illness and depression. Here is an overview of dementia, its causes, and effects on family.
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Depression
Although unsure of the exact mechanisms behind depression, scientitsts are getting closer to solving the riddle. This article will discuss what's currently known.
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Depression Types
There are many types of depression. This article will briefly discuss the symptoms of some of the more commonly encountered varieties of depressive illness.
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Hallucination and Saving Grace
If you've never had a hallucination, it's very hard to realize just what they are. The person who is caught in this state has no way of knowing that the people and places he interacts with are all in his mind. Some people and acts insinuate themselves into the hallucination, and the patient can't distinguish the real from the hallucinatory. That's why it sometimes appears to nurses and family that the patient seems to somehow connect with you, and then suddenly, his mind is off somewhere else. The patient may recognize that you are there, but can't separate his "mental story" from the nurses' reality. This series of articles on anesthesia-induced hallucination and delusion are meant to enlighten future patients and their families to the false but seemingly real world of the hallucinating patients mind.
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Insanity, Difference, and Cross-Cultural Psychiatry
Did colonialism or genetics cause madness in Africa? Or, was insanity simply a label that colonial officials slapped on certain Africans because they were "different"? This article argues that it was probably all three.
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Manifesting Guilt - Character Analysis of Macbeth
Hi everyone. I know I'm behind in my articles, but with the New Year, I plan on correcting that. First, by catching up with three articles this month alone (promise, for real!), and this is a perfect time to start as any. So, for today, let's take a closer look at Macbeth and how reason ultimately escapes him.
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Marijuana Triggers Mental Illness
Marijuana may not be good medicine if it triggers psychosis, hallucinations or psychotic illnesses later in life. Here's evidence of the link between pot & psychosis.
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Morgellons-Unexplained Dermopathy
The Center For Disease Control in Atlanta has partnered with Kaiser Permanente in California to research and begin to unravel the mystery of Morgellons Disease.
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Paranoid Personality Disorder PPD
The "paranoid" in PPD doesn't generally refer to a person with delusions or psychosis, but rather to someone who is constantly suspicious and distrustful of others.
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Schizophrenia Disorder Diagnosis
Although schizophrenics may view their abnormal perceptions and paranoid beliefs as perfectly rational, their behavior often appears out-of-pace and bizarre to others.
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Schizotypal Personality Disorder
You may know (or be) someone who's a bit eccentric. But when cognitive distortions, eccentricities and isolation are disabling, it may indicate a psychological disorder.
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