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Delusions Strongly held beliefs that are not true or
are impossible. Kids/teens can not be talked out of these ideas by someone
explaining why the belief is not true. The belief remains even with evidence
that should prove the belief wrong. Often children find these beliefs upsetting;
other times the unreal beliefs cause behavior that can have serious
consequences. Delusions can involve either bad things (i.e. everyone being
against the child, that someone else wants them to die, that the police or CIA
are ‘after’ them, etc.) or things that make the child special (i.e. being able
to predict the future or that the child can boss around the principal because
he/she is smarter than the principal anyhow). Delusions involving bad things are
called paranoid; delusions involving good things are referred to as grandiose.
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