Robert is a Vietnam vetran who has had no previous mental difficulties since returning from the war. He became a firefighter and was called to the scene at the Oklahoma Center after the bombing. After the first night there, he mysteriously developed blindness which could not be explained by medical means. ..and the diagnosis is..
Mood-incongruent psychotic features: - Delusions or hallucinations whose content is not consistent with the typical themes of a depressed or manic mood. In the case of depression, the delusions or hallucinations would not involve themes of personal inadequacy, guilt, disease, death, nihilism, or deserved punishment. In the case of mania, the delusions or hallucinations would not involve themes of inflated worth, power, knowledge, or identity, or a special relationship to a deity or a famous person. Examples of mood-incongruent psychotic features include persecutory delusions (without self-derogatory~ or grandiose content), thought insertion, thought broadcasting, and delusions of being controlled whose content has no apparent relationship to any of the themes listed above.
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