Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose. In the summer of 1966, Janis Joplin was a drifter; four years later, she was a rock-and-roll legend. Born in Port Arthur, Texas, in 1943, Janis Joplin made her way to San Francisco in 1966, where she fell in with a local group called Big Brother and the Holding Company.
A delusion is a belief held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary.As a pathology, it is distinct from a belief based on false or incomplete information, confabulation, dogma, illusion, or other effects of perception.randiose delusions or delusions of grandeur are principally a subtype of delusional disorder but could possibly feature as a symptom of schizophrenia and manic episodes of bipolar disorder. Grandiose delusions are characterized by fantastical beliefs that one is famous, omnipotent or otherwise very powerful.
A delusion is a belief that is clearly false and that indicates an abnormality in the affected person's content of thought. The false belief is not accounted for by the person's cultural or religious background or his or her level of intelligence. Beliefs that would be considered normal for an individual's religious or cultural background are not delusions. 2  Somatic delusion: A delusion whose content pertains to bodily functioning, bodily sensations, or physical appearance. 3  Usually the false belief is that the body is somehow diseased, abnormal, or changed.