Because of the presence of persecutory, grandiose, referential and
bizarre delusions, it was clear that he also had a thought content disturbance.
When he was in the care home he had these
bizarre delusions. It was a psychosis.
Their actions are now being described as "ISIS-inspired." When a deranged young man opened fire in a Colorado movie theatre showing The Dark Knight Rises, killing twelve people and wounding 70 others, no one said the killer was "Batman-inspired." The
bizarre delusions of someone seeing the world through a haze of mental illness compounded with drug addictions can fixate on any narrative, conspiracy, or justification.
In schizophrenia, special treatment of
bizarre delusions and special hallucinations in criterion A (characteristic symptoms) has been eliminated.
It most commonly manifests as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or
bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking, and it is accompanied by significant social or occupational dysfunction.
It said the killer believes in many different forms of "
bizarre delusions", including that he was chosen to decide who shall live and who shall die, and that he was chosen to save what he called "his people".
Schizophrenia is characterized by the following: a noticeable deterioration in the level of functioning in everyday life, a withdrawal from reality, illogical patterns of thinking,
bizarre delusions, and social and/or occupational dysfunction.
Common symptoms of the disorder include auditory hallucinations, paranoid or
bizarre delusions, disorganised speech and thinking, and significant social or occupational dysfunction.
The diseases commonly manifests as auditory hallucinations,
bizarre delusions or disorganised speech and thinking.
