24th March 2007, 6:21 PM
Dark Jaguar Wrote:Psychotic? Perhaps... A lot of people that believe in this stuff are, otherwise, well adjusted members of society. Psychotic, at least from definitions I've seen, requires the subject to be so out of it they can't or won't properly care for themselves and need to become wards of the state. These people seem to be thriving well enough. It's still a shame they waste their efforts on this as opposed to something that would actually work.
Psycotic doesn't necessarily mean in "medical terms at least" that someone is always dangerous or needs to be institutionalized. It just means the individual has lost contact with reality and cannot differentiate from his delusions.
But some of these delusions could be like believing that a pet dog talks to him, he might still be capable of caring for himself if he takes medication, Its a matter of the extent of what the delusion is.
Believing you have magical fighting powers is probably not as serious as say believing you can actually fly, Although something tells me this old man does not live alone without supervision.