Symptom Breakdown: Delusions of Control in Schizophrenia

Delusions of Control centre around an individual believing that their thoughts and/or actions are being controlled or influenced by outside forces. The ICD-10 has indicated that the common beliefs associated with delusions of control (thought broadcasting, thought insertion, and thought deletion) are individual symptoms of schizophrenia, but in this post I will be addressing the delusions as a single unit.