🌀 Delusional Disorder

• Jealous Type - believes that their partner is unfaithful
• Persecutory Type - believes others (partner + maybe their friends or strangers) are secretly talking about them, judging them, or trying to isolate them
  • These thoughts are often not reality-based, and resistant to reassurance.
  • The emotional tone still includes suspicion, possessiveness, insecurity, but it's channeled into paranoid or referential beliefs, not just romantic jealousy.

💭 Possible Thoughts They Might Have:

• “You and your friend were whispering, it was about me, I know it.”
• “You’re slowly making everyone think I’m the bad one.”
• “You’re siding with them to make me look unstable.”
• “That TikTok you reposted... was that a message for me?”

💡 Related Psychological Concepts: Paranoid Personality Traits – lifelong suspiciousness without losing touch with reality.

• Schizotypal Traits – magical thinking, odd beliefs, or mild paranoia.
• Delusional Disorder – fixed, false beliefs, but not so extreme that the person seems completely disconnected.
• Othello Syndrome Variant – extreme jealousy not limited to romantic infidelity.

🌱 How It Might Feel for the Partner:

• Like walking on eggshells.
• No amount of explaining feels enough.
• Being accused of things you haven’t done, or feelings you don’t have.
• Constant need to “prove” loyalty or good intentions.
• Further notes:
  • An example of autochthonous delusion. There was no proof or reason, just what he thinks he saw or feel.l It came out of nowhere.
  • An autochthonous delusion, also known as a primordial or primary delusion, is a type of delusion that arises "out of the blue" without any apparent cause or preceding mental events or ideas. It's a sudden, fully formed belief that is firmly held despite being clearly untrue or bizarre, and the individual struggles to explain its origin.
  • This is also an example of aberrant salience which refers to the inappropriate attribution of significance or salience to stimuli that are typically considered neutral or irrelevant. This phenomenon, often associated with psychosis and psychotic-like experiences, involves an overemphasis on stimuli, leading to a person putting a wrong meaning to something to normal that he finds it offensive or painful.
  • Someone who is psychotic has an incorrect salience processing system. The mesolymbic system is abnormally functioning.