{"id":69495,"date":"2025-11-14T08:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/delusions-of-self-blame-depressive-delusions\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T08:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:29:12","slug":"delusions-of-self-blame-depressive-delusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/delusions-of-self-blame-depressive-delusions\/","title":{"rendered":"Delusions of self-blame (depressive delusions)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>conviction of committing unworthy or even criminal acts, usually not subject to forgiveness and requiring severe punishment. Most often, delusional ideas of self-blame are combined with depressive symptoms and are accompanied by an increased risk of suicide. Patients with delusions of self-accusation believe that in the future they will face punishment, retribution for mistakes or simply significant life hardships. In some cases, patients with such experiences commit so-called &#8220;extended suicides&#8221; \u2013 they seek to kill not only themselves, but also their loved ones in order to &#8220;protect them from suffering&#8221;. Particular cases of delusions of self-accusation:<x id=\"gid_0\"><\/x>1) Guilt \u2013 the patient&#8217;s belief that his actions or inactions caused some negative events. Close in meaning is the delirium of sinfulness \u2013 the attribution of various sins to oneself;<br \/>\n2) Self-abasement \u2013 the patient&#8217;s conviction of his own insignificance (physical, mental or moral);<br \/>\n3) Impoverishment (ruin) \u2013 the conviction that the patient and his family are imminent or have already lost their material values with the conviction that they will &#8220;remain on the street&#8221; or &#8220;die of hunger&#8221;;<br \/>\n4) Dysmorphomania \u2013 delusions of physical imperfection, deformity;<br \/>\n5) Hypochondriacal \u2013 delusions of the disease.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>conviction of committing unworthy or even criminal acts, usually not subject to forgiveness and requiring severe punishment. Most often, delusional ideas of self-blame are combined with depressive symptoms and are accompanied by an increased risk of suicide. Patients with delusions of self-accusation believe that in the future they will face punishment, retribution for mistakes or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-clinical-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}