Little Hawk wrote: "5. Pray for them (Almost certainly harmless. Possibly helpful? Not for me to say, is it? Not for you either.)"

I think it is for me to say, sorry. If the patient/service user is actually aware of the praying I couldn't disagree more with the idea of it being "harmless". In fact, I can't think of a way of actually making matters more worse to someone suffering from delusional thinking. The last thing a sufferer of 'positive symptoms' such as delusional thinking or hallucinations needs is to be exposed to the idea that an external, intangible, supernatural force is capable of having some control over their life.

Religion/prayer is never a real positive influence in these kinds of cases. Even when religion has apparently 'saved' someone in these scenarios, invariably what actually happens is not only does it become a crutch but usually there's no real saving, just an exchange and moving from one thing to another.