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délire de négation In this historical psychiatric term, a person in a delusional depressive state believes that they do not exist or are nobody, and may also believe that the world itself is unreal, destroyed, or gone.

In this historical psychiatric term, a person in a delusional depressive state believes that they do not exist or are nobody, and may also believe that the world itself is unreal, destroyed, or gone. The source describes it as a marked form of depressive delirium appearing as an episode within melancholic states.