If the patient's mind is temporarily clouded through infection or
suffering, he may be reacting to a delusion, an obsession, a fixed idea
of disability, a terrifying fear. Sometimes he persistently refuses
food, and gives no reason for it. T... Read more of The Deluded Patient at Overcoming Fear.ca
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becomes an affix in a derivative.