Ideas can arise in different ways.
An idea is a mental representation that arises from a person's reasoning or imagination . It is considered the most basic act of understanding, contemplating the mere action of knowing something.
The concept, however, has several uses. An idea can be a plan or the will to do something : “My idea is to give up and go on a trip,” “Juan's idea was different, but the accident changed the deadlines,” “Ernesto continues with the idea of selling the house.” » ; It can refer to someone's knowledge of a certain topic: "Do you have any idea how difficult it is to run this company?" , "I don't know too much about the subject, I just have an idea" ; or it may even be related to a sudden occurrence that, when carried out, causes certain consequences: "The best idea that occurred to me in my life was to come to this city on vacation."
The concept in ready-made phrases
There are also certain idioms that allow the concept to be given different meanings, here we postulate some of them:
* A fixed idea is an obsession or a recurring thought from which a person cannot seem to escape: "Being a professional footballer was a fixed idea during my adolescence" , "Dr. Filumerry maintains his fixed idea of closing the laboratory starting in March » .
* A person has a remote idea about something when their knowledge about it lacks precision , possibly because they have never encountered that topic, because they have not done enough research, or because it is a plan that is not yet known if it will be possible. carried out: "It is likely that an investment project will be developed in these lands, although it is still a remote idea."
* The expression " getting used to the idea " is linked to resignation or acceptance of something that is not entirely pleasant: "I have to get used to the idea that it is not going to come back"; while " not having a clue " refers to a person not having clear knowledge about something. "I had no idea your parents were dead."
Reasoning is a way to generate ideas.
What is a delusional idea
In psychology, the concept of delusional idea is used to refer to a type of pathology that is characterized by being formed by ideas that cannot be modified by the subject and that cannot be carried out; The dangerous thing about this disorder is that these ideas invade the entire personality of the individual, becoming the axis around which the patient's life begins to revolve. The person changes completely, before the delusional idea appeared he behaved in one way and from its presence he begins to be another, changing his entire existence around the delusion, whether it has this basis or not.
A delusional idea can be related to hypochondria (the subject believes that he is constantly sick and turns to doctors), feelings of ruin (he is convinced that a life awaits him where misfortune is the main protagonist), feelings of guilt (he feels he convinces himself that he has done something terrible and with that he justifies feeling bad, as if he deserved it), ideas of persecution (convinced that he is going to suffer some type of attack, he lives in fear of everything around him; it is present in paranoid schizophrenia )or with erotic or erotomaniac ideas (the individual believes that everyone is interested in him and wants to sleep with him; this is a chronic delusion).
Jealousy and delusions
There are other types of delusional ideas, most related to a particular pathology . Depending on how delusional ideas are formed, they can be:
*Delusional jealousy : The conviction that your sexual partner is cheating on you with another person; The individual acts accordingly to this idea and generally his behavior leads him to lose his partner;
*Delusions of grandeur : A slightly exaggerated notion of oneself, overvaluing oneself by the rest of us. It may also happen that said overvaluation is focused on another individual, be it a family member or a famous person;
*Reference delusions : Delusional ideas related to the patient's environment, sometimes involving contempt for other individuals, in other cases praise; The subject looks at his environment from these preconceived ideas and cannot analyze life rigorously.