How's it's going to end: Researchers start documenting "Truman syndrome"
Strange new reality-based disorder: Truman syndrome..
People that believe their life is being filmed, and that they are a part of a TRUMAN SHOW type reality set in which their every move is being recorded for all to see..
There is still some room for debate among experts:
"Other researchers aren't convinced, but still find the "Truman syndrome" an interesting example of the connection between culture and mental health.I used to feel this way, too.. Being watched.. There's something strange about life sometimes that seems to throw you into a world that isn't there.. sometimes you feel like you're in a nightmare. Most of the time, if you're working a daily grind desk job, you'd wish you were in that life.. where you were the hero like Truman Burbank.. sailing away from the perfect world created for him to escape to the less perfect, more real world. But we're in the real world after all.. for better or worse..
Vaughan Bell, a psychologist who has researched Internet-related delusions, said one of his own former patients believed he was in the virtual-reality universe portrayed in the 1999 blockbuster "The Matrix." "I don't think that popular culture causes delusions," said Bell, who is affiliated with King's College London and the Universidad de Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia. "But I do think that it is only possible to fully understand delusions and psychosis in light of our wider culture."
So, how's it going to end, anyway?
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posted by schmuckraker @ 11/24/2008 11:12:00 PM
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