A distant cousin from "up back" was coming to keep house for him—quite willing to do so now since there was no sick girl to wait on—but Abel was not under any delusions concerning her.
Over the previous weeks, Dina had been suffering with depression and delusions that she was an FBI target.
The lengthy Delusions of Certainty section focuses on the mind/body split as perceived by thinkers from Descartes to Simone Weil to Stephen Pinker.
And he had delusions of grandeur.
But in the late 1950s, Nash began a slide into mental illness—later diagnosed as schizophrenia—that would cost him his marriage, derail his career, and plague him with powerful delusions.
He had cured his patient of his delusions but still the man did not seem happy.
Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
