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Insight

Sometimes though we describe a patient as having ‘partial insight’.  An example of this might be someone who thinks that MI5 is passing messages to  him/her via messages written on Tescos carrier bags.  He or she might concede that this was rather a strange thing to be happening, but would insist on its veracity nevertheless.  With recovery of full insight he or she might say that now they realise that the messages on carrier bags were a function of their illness. 

Loss of insight is also important because it has prognostic implications.  As you might expect, if you don’t think that you have a problem, you’re likely to carry on as before, and won’t be opening the door to health care professionals.  As well as this it is linked to poorer functioning across all areas of a patient’s life.  
http://frontierpsychiatrist.co.uk/insight/