I was talking with x123 in the bipolar forum and we got into a discussion that I thought was interesting. I wanted to post it here to see if anyone else had opinions or thoughts.

The topic is the idea that delusions are a result of feeling unimportant.

Self-esteem and delusion proneness. - PubMed - NCBI

I'm not good with logic at all, or evaluating a study, and I only saw the abstract here, but I wondered about what people think of this. It seems to me that if delusions are caused by low self esteem, improving someone's self esteem would make delusions go away. That confuses me because I was under the impression that delusions just happen and there's not really a lot that can be done about them during the time they happen.

Like I said, I'm not good at thinking about things like this so I just wondered if anyone else had heard of this idea before and whether you think it has merit, or what your thoughts are in general. I'm curious.