What Are Delusions of Control?

The controlled delusion is that the patient believes that his mental activities (thinking, emotion, will, behavior, etc.) have been disturbed, controlled, dominated, operated by external forces, or that he has an external force to stimulate his body and produce an uncomfortable feeling. The patient experiences that his own will, thoughts, speech, emotions, behaviors, and actions are replaced by a certain force or effect, which is not controlled by his consciousness. Patients who are controlled by delusions have a passive, alien, and reinforced experience that is out of harmony with their moods. The patient felt that he did not have any will and was a robot controlled by someone else. This symptom has diagnostic significance for schizophrenia, but it is easy to be confused with the status of rickets in the clinic. (Hu Zeqing) ^[1]

Controlled delusion

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The controlled delusion is that the patient believes that his mental activities (thinking, emotion, will, behavior, etc.) have been disturbed, controlled, dominated, operated by external forces, or that he has an external force to stimulate his body and produce an uncomfortable feeling. The patient experiences that his own will, thoughts, speech, emotions, behaviors, and actions are replaced by a certain force or effect, which is not controlled by his consciousness. Patients who are controlled by delusions have a passive, alien, and reinforced experience that is out of harmony with their moods. The patient felt that he did not have any will and was a robot controlled by someone else. This symptom has diagnostic significance for schizophrenia, but it is easy to be confused with the status of rickets in the clinic. (Hu Zeqing) ^[1]

Delusion of being controlled

Firmly believe that one's will is replaced or controlled by external forces or external will and cannot be autonomous. Kandinski (1849-1889) de Clerambault (1872-1934) is used to describe passive syndromes, which are mainly controlled delusions and pseudo hallucinations.

Controlled delusions (a sense of control) are characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia. For example, patients feel that they have external forces to control, interfere with, and control their thoughts, actions, and emotions, and even think that there are special instruments, radio waves, and electronic computers that manipulate or control themselves (affecting delusions); sometimes they believe in their own inner experience and what they want Everyone knows everything (thinking is played); sometimes I feel that my mind is suddenly taken away by external forces (thought is taken away).

Some people think that it should not be simply attributed to delusion, but should be called "passive experience" or "controlled" because it is not just a barrier to thinking content, but also a barrier to self-awareness, involving "self" and Confusion over the "environment" boundaries. Such as the sense of control, compulsory thinking, and false hallucinations, the inner sense of exposure, the so-called Kanginski-Clarenbo psychosis syndrome. ^[2]