overvalued ideas

Overvalued ideas - judgments that result from the actual circumstances, accompanied by excessive emotional stress and prevail in the minds of all the other judgments. Formed as part of psychopathy (often paranoid and schizoid type), while acquired psychopathic states in individuals gipertimicheskogo warehouse in schizophrenia and affective psychoses. Unlike delirium, when from the outset observed the error of reasoning, overvalued ideas occur as a pathological transformation of real events, emotions (jealousy, love, inventions, and others.) And dominate the minds, are considered sick as a well-founded, that motivates them to actively fight for the realization of these ideas.

In the period of depression unimportant relating to the distant past misdeeds can also become overvalued, growing in the minds of patients to serious crime sizes. Under favorable conditions, overvalued ideas fade and disappear. In cases progredient development is possible gradual transition from overvalued ideas to delirium.