Delusions as lived‑world shifts

Psychotic delusions often emerge not simply as false propositional beliefs but as a reconfiguration of how a person experiences and inhabits their body and world, driven by emotions, prior trauma and social context. Early‑episode qualitative evidence shows clinicians should treat delusions as experiential‑phenomena requiring embodied, contextual interventions rather than only belief‑correction. — Recasting delusions this way changes clinical protocols, early‑intervention funding priorities, legal assessments of competence and public health messaging about psychosis and stigma.