A nurse is caring for a client diagnosed with a delusional disorder. While assessing this client, which would a nurse expect to find?

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Clients usually live with delusions for years, rarely receiving psychiatric treatment unless their delusion relates to their health or they act on the basis of their delusion and violate the law or social rules. The person often behaves in a normal manner except when focusing on the delusion. A person with delusional disorder does not have other psychiatric disorders. If mood episodes occur with this disorder, the duration of the mood episode is relatively brief in comparison. Behavior is remarkably normal except when the client focuses on the delusion. Delusional disorder involves the presence of nonbizarre delusions.

A Nurse Is Caring for a Client Diagnosed with a Delusional