Medicolegal
Update
(Dr Sudhir
Gupta, Additional Prof, Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, AIIMS)
- Delusion of persecution is an
unpleasant delusion.
- The person is suspicious and
apprehensive and leads a life of distress and pain. The sufferer believes
that something bad is going to happen to him. He/she fears that he may be
killed by somebody or his property may be robbed.
- Such a person may feel himself so
helpless that he may even commit suicide or may kill his own family
members to "save" them from some imaginary danger. He may even
kill some innocent person thinking him to be his enemy who is "out to
destroy him, his family and his property."
- In an insane person, delusion of
grandeur may change to delusions of persecution. A man who wrongly
believes that he possesses huge property, may at a time start to think
wrongly that another person is out to kill him to inherit his property.
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