Question if Delusion of grandeur is more understood than Schizophrenia

Is Delusion of grandeur more understood than Schizophrenia? Am I safe to tell the general public that I sometimes have delusions of grandeur when I am manic?
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  • What do you mean by this? And I ask because we typically hear these terms said by NTypicals who like to overcome the meaning of a clinical term. For example, “Empathy”. Which is not sympathy or compassion and yet the general public has also somehow added “demand to be understood” into this little term. 

    If you often spot the complexities of a problem or can see the seemingly invisible systems at play in the exchange of others and either don’t know how to play along or don’t really feel it’s beneficial to play along, this would be considered asserting a boundary. But someone who’s offended might feel you’re being sociopathic if they don’t understand autism. 

    Sometimes the madness we encounter and are thrown into can create some kind of mental illness. I think there are a great deal of distinctions to made which are overlooked. 

    I could’ve easily been thrown into an asylum for Melancholy 50 years ago or when young having imaginary friends or in my teens, making imagery from shadows or using my wild imagination to understand cruelties in society as a type of essence/phantom. 

    GK Chesterton is often taken out of context but he write a good deal about making distinctions. A good read if you’re digging!! 

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  • What do you mean by this? And I ask because we typically hear these terms said by NTypicals who like to overcome the meaning of a clinical term. For example, “Empathy”. Which is not sympathy or compassion and yet the general public has also somehow added “demand to be understood” into this little term. 

    If you often spot the complexities of a problem or can see the seemingly invisible systems at play in the exchange of others and either don’t know how to play along or don’t really feel it’s beneficial to play along, this would be considered asserting a boundary. But someone who’s offended might feel you’re being sociopathic if they don’t understand autism. 

    Sometimes the madness we encounter and are thrown into can create some kind of mental illness. I think there are a great deal of distinctions to made which are overlooked. 

    I could’ve easily been thrown into an asylum for Melancholy 50 years ago or when young having imaginary friends or in my teens, making imagery from shadows or using my wild imagination to understand cruelties in society as a type of essence/phantom. 

    GK Chesterton is often taken out of context but he write a good deal about making distinctions. A good read if you’re digging!! 

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