Hallucination Vs Delusion – What’s the difference?
Hallucinations and Delusions, both are predominant symptoms of Psychosis. They both can overlap and they do in most of the cases of Schizophrenia . However, there is significant difference in symptomatology in both of them. What is hallucination? Hallucination is false perception in the absence of external stimulus. Hallucinations are generally indications of significant psychiatric disorder. They can be described in terms of complexity and sensory modality. What is delusion? Delusion is false, firm, fixed belief that is firmly held on inadequate grounds and patient continues to believe it despite giving evidence to the contrary. It is not influenced by person’s educational, cultural and religious background. What are the types of hallucinations? The term elementary hallucination refers to experiences like banging, whistles, flash of light etc. While complex hallucination refers to hearing of voices or music, seeing faces etc. Auditory hallucinations are experiences as noises, mus...