Monday, March 24, 2008

Ideas of reference; is that really you?

Are you having problems of thinking that people(strangers) might talking about you on your back or while reading a paper believing that the headlines or stories written into it is pointing at you? well guess what your experiencing ideas of reference. Ideas of reference involve the belief that casual beliefs or people's remarks are referring to oneself when in fact they are not.

People experiencing ideas of reference might consider this as normal feeling/ thoughts. Individual may have experiencing severe anxiety because they may think that other people are judging them or criticizing them. Its a pattern of disbelief of which an individual thinks that an external events and activities have a special significance for them.

People with ideas of reference tend to experience:

1. They would think that people from the other side of the road is talking about him or her.
2. They would try to react on newspaper headlines or stories.
3. They think that the report of a certain news caster on a television/ radio is referring to oneself.
4. Laughing peoples will trigger individual with this kind of illness by thinking that he's the center point of that certain laughter.
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