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Where Does Grandiosity Come from?

Robert Thorne • • 6 min read
Where Does Grandiosity Come from?

Grandiosity is a symptom experienced by people with bipolar disorder (BD) during manic and hypomanic

hypomanic
Hypomania (literally "under mania" or "less than mania") is a mental and behavioural disorder, characterised essentially by an apparently non-contextual elevation of mood (euphoria) which contributes to persistently disinhibited behaviour.
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episodes. People experiencing grandiose delusions
grandiose delusions
Specifically, grandiose delusions are frequently found in paranoid schizophrenia, in which a person has an extremely exaggerated sense of his or her significance, personality, knowledge, or authority.
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often describe larger-than-life feelings of superiority and invulnerability.

What causes grandiosity?

Grandiose delusions usually occur in patients with syndromes associated with secondary mania, such as Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, and Wilson's disease. Secondary mania has also been caused by substances such as L-DOPA and isoniazid which modify the monoaminergic neurotransmitter function.

Is grandiosity a good thing?

“Grandiose narcissism appears to correlate positively with healthy self-esteem and extroversion,” Papageorgiou says. These types of narcissists tend to be very confident, which is a good thing. (A vulnerable narcissist, on the other hand, might be overly sensitive.)

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