Where In The World Is~~~Kevin Eleven☹️!

@very-rusty said
Hi is a modest man, so I am telling you he is mentally stronger than the TWINS if they ganged up on him. 😛 🙂

-VR

If you think anyone here takes anything you say with any level of seriousness, then you are deluded.

Ask Ghost of a Duke for a definition of “deluded”

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Oh, without question.

You could use this moment to bail out.

@divegeester said
So a delusion ?

No, not at all.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Oh, without question.

And yet neither of us:

- Dread meetings with our colleagues
- Post about feeling “broken” and “destroyed” by a glitch in commercial transaction
- Write histrionic emails to a radio program claiming to be losing sleep and having various trauma because their name was changed on a local radio program.

@fmf said
a misconstruing of events, coming at a time of high stress

Yes, this would be how a delusion might take hold.

Only to somebody with a shaky understanding of the definition of a delusion.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
No, not at all.

A person having visions of supernatural beings who speak to them, isn’t suffering from a delusion?

@very-rusty said
Hi is a modest man,

Not since 1987.

@divegeester said
And yet neither of us:

- Dread meetings with our colleagues
- Post about feeling “broken” and “destroyed” by a glitch in commercial transaction
- Write histrionic emails to a radio program claiming to be losing sleep and having various trauma because their name was changed on a local radio program.

And there it is. 😀

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Only to somebody with a shaky understanding of the definition of a delusion.

"A belief in something that is not true". Everyday use.

I am not pretending to be a psychiatrist.

Nor do I think one has to take on-board your stuff about "ignoring incontrovertible evidence ".

@ghost-of-a-duke said
And there it is. 😀

The evidence that you’re an emotionally brittle person. Yes.

@divegeester said
A person having visions of supernatural beings who speak to them, isn’t suffering from a delusion?

Well, it depends on the details. If somebody claimed to have had a conversation with a 9 foot angel with wings, then possibly. If however a person believing in angels, like yourself, misconstrued a kind human being at a time of stress as an angel, then maybe not.

@fmf said
"A belief in something that is not true". Everyday use.

I am not pretending to be a psychiatrist.

Nor do I think one has to take on-board your stuff about "ignoring incontrovertible evidence ".

Well, you'd be wrong.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
a person believing in angels, like yourself, misconstrued a kind human being at a time of stress as an angel, then maybe not.

The "time of stress" would be the cause of the delusion, I think. You have put your finger on it.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Well, it depends on the details. If somebody claimed to have had a conversation with a 9 foot angel with wings, then possibly. If however a person believing in angels, like yourself, misconstrued a kind human being at a time of stress as an angel, then maybe not.

I see. So in the mental health arena a person is only “deluded” if their visiting supernatural beings are of unusual height and wearing non human appendages.

OK 🤣

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Well, you'd be wrong.

Not at all. I am using the word "delusion" correctly in its everyday sense.