America: Land of the Free, Home of the Deluded

July 14, 2023

by E. Jeffrey Ludwig American Thinker

A severe mental and emotional breakdown on a mass scale is taking place. Or, as my closest friend recently put it, “America is going insane.” The issues we face are not only those about which reasonable people might disagree, but delusional concerns lacking a basis in reality.

The world-renowned Cleveland Clinic defines delusional disorder as “a type of psychotic disorder.” People with this disorder:

…often continue to socialize and function well, apart from the subject of their delusion…. This is unlike people with other psychotic disorders who might also have delusions…[nevertheless] people with delusional disorder might become so preoccupied with their delusions that their lives are disrupted.

This article will look at three symptoms of delusional disorder in light of certain social and political distresses that currently afflict the USA.