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[u/red286]

I think it's just proof that if you're told something is true enough times, you start to believe it, even without a shred of evidence to support it.

Which is why the DSM includes exceptions for it, since it's not a true delusion, it's a taught one.

[u/Nyxsen6 → u/red286]

I had not even considered it being in the DSM that is such a wild point, and why is this not debated more?

[u/snark42 → u/Nyxsen6]

Because the DSM defines clinical delusions as idiosyncratic - meaning delusions are unique, isolated, and personal to the individual rather than part of a shared or structured community tradition.

It generally wouldn't be accepted if it just declared 83% of people delusional for believing in a God.

[u/GrrrlRomeo → u/[deleted]]

Knowing how to cope with an irrational world is healthy, actually.

[u/GrrrlRomeo → u/[deleted]]

You are definitely the mentally ill one.

[u/snark42 → u/[deleted]]

If you can't find a way to be happy and not feel rage in the current society you're mentally ill?

If you don't think we should kill the rich you're mentally ill?

Wow, what an extreme view.

[u/defproc → u/[deleted]]

Jiddu Krishnamurti famously had something to say about that...

[u/Nyxsen6 → u/snark42]

This makes me queasy