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Flight of ideas describes when a person is speaking quickly, continuously and erratically.
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Flight of ideas
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Hallucinations are another hallmark of psychotic disorders - they occur when a person hears, sees, feels or smells something that does not exist in reality, though it feels like reality to them.
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Hallucinations
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Disturbed speech is a way of describing when a person jumps from one topic to another mid-sentence.
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Disturbed speech
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A formal thought disorder is when a person is unable to sustain a coherent conversation or written text.
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Formal thought disorder
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A delusion is an unshakeable, fixed false belief that a person holds when they experience psychotic symptoms. These beliefs are inconsistent with the person's culture. This is a common symptom and a hallmark of psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia.
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The mother of a 29-year-old man reports that her son has been acting strangely and talking to himself often. He also has a fixed false belief that aliens are about to land on earth.

What are these fixed false beliefs known as in Psychiatry?
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