PATIENT'S ATTITUDE TO DELUSIONS:
Patients with delusions do not necessarily act on them despite they are convinced
that their delusions are true. In chronic schizophrenia, there is discrepancy between the
delusions and the patient's behaviour.
Hypochondriacal delusions may lead to suicide or homicide. In case of delusions
of jealousy it would seem that the action is more likely to be taken on the basis of true
delusions because true delusions are the result of dis-integration of the personality while
over-valued ideas occur in an intact personality