Delusional Repetition Disorder (DRD)
A MUD were after a “key event” one will exprience delusions of the key event repeating itself.
A key event or KE can be any event but usually has one of the below features:
- Exermely traumatic in nature
- Lasted for an extended period of time (like a period of abuse)
- Had a repetive pattern to it
- Had multiple instances of it almost ending (like trying to run away from an abuser multiple times)
The indvidual will then exprience some of the following symptom surronding the KE:
- Paranoia that KE will happen again.
- Paranoia that those close to the indvidual are trying to make KE happen again.
- Visual, audiotary and/or tactile halluctions that make one feel like the KE is happening again.
- The delusion that the KE is actively repeating.
- Paranoia that others are hiding evidence of the repetition.
- Psuedomemories of the KE repeating.
- Performing complusions to stop the KE from repeating.
- Refusing to tell others about the KE for fear of telling causing it to repeat
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