“After a bad night at the neighbors, my wife asked me why I kept drinking when the rest of the guests had switched to coffee after dinner. At first I was stumped, but I retorted that real men drink whiskey after dinner.
A delusion is a fixed, false, and idiosyncratic belief and is one of the symptoms is thought disorder.” Fixed” refers to the strength of the patient’s belief. The patient is certain, and not persuaded by any arguments to the contrary.
— Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Guide
We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery. The delusion that we are like other people, or presently may be, has to be smashed.
— Page 30 Alcoholics Anonymous
