America: Land of the Free, Home of the Deluded

August 2023 

   A severe mental and emotional breakdown on a mass scale is taking place.  Or, as my closest friend recently put it, “America is going insane.”  The issues we face are not only those about which reasonable people might disagree, but delusional concerns lacking a basis in reality.
 
   The world-renowned Cleveland Clinic defines delusional disorder as “a type of psychotic disorder.”  People with this disorder:
 
   “…often continue to socialize and function well, apart from the subject of their delusion…. This is unlike people with other psychotic disorders who might also have delusions…[nevertheless] people with delusional disorder might become so preoccupied with their delusions that their lives are disrupted.”
 
   This article will look at three symptoms of delusional disorder in light of certain social and political distresses that currently afflict the USA.
 
Feelings of being exploited. 
   The feeling of being exploited has reached pandemic proportions in the USA.  Vast numbers of people believe they are exploited by the police, by white people, by Christians, by “the system,” by men, by Wall Street, by the U.S.A., by corporations, etc. etc. There has been a significant cultural ...

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