Are You The Star Of Your Own Reality Show?

You can't make this up...


Hey folks,
In the YCMTSU category, do you suffer from "Truman Show?" Do you talk to the flowers thinking there is a mic? Do you look in the mirror and wonder who is looking back? Maybe your best friend is really nothing more than an actor? Your Boss? Well your Boss is the Boss from hell, as scripted. Yes YOU. You ARE what the world revolves around. Because the world is not real. YOU are a reality show?


Sounds completely ridiculous. Does it not? But apparently, this is a real, and a growing mental illness. You really can't make this stuff up. According to the UK Daily Mail - Cases of 'Truman Show' delusions on the rise as more people believe they're the stars of their own reality TV programs

Reality TV shows are making increasing numbers of people convinced that they're the stars of their own, unwanted television programs.

Psychiatrists are treating more people for so-called 'Truman Show' delusions -- named after the 1998 movie starring Jim Carrey as a man who spends his entire life unwittingly at the center of a fictional world that's being broadcast to millions of homes.

The startling cases often afflict successful people who develop paranoid fantasies that they're being filmed at all times and that the world that's in front of them isn't real.

Their friends and loves ones are actors. The news they see on TV is made up to control the way they think. The things that happen to them are merely events staged for the amusement of others.

Seriously? You all know how I feel about psychobabble. In most cases, it's a created "disease" or "mental illness" of which money is now able to be made. We have "illnesses" that have been created, to take away personal responsibility. These "illnesses" fund pharmaceutical companies, Doctors, and in some cases, entire establishments are well funded, because someone somewhere created a "disorder." Some of the "disorders" or "diseases" I believe are bogus? Schizophrenia, ADD, ADHD,  EAD or IED, Sexaholicsm, and many others. I even question calling Alcoholism a disease. 


Now I understand the need to talk things out. I really do. Talking to someone who is able to listen and offer reasonable solutions is not a bad thing. But to say, my kid will not pay attention in class, so drug him, is not the answer. Remember when we went to school? If I didn't pay attention, I got a boot in the butt. By the teacher. Then when I got home, Grandma took over where Teacher left off. There was not ADD. There was no pill. It was me learning to pay attention. 


But there are not kidding about this Truman thing..

The result can turn disturbing and even violent.

In 2009, Anthony Waterlow killed his father and his sister in Australia because he believed they were broadcasting his life to the world as part of a game show to either murder him or convince him to kill himself.

During a psychological exam, he specially mentioned 'The Truman Show,' according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

In 2007, psychiatrist William Johns III allegedly assaulted a 2-year-old and his mother in New York City after he left his home in Florida because he 'had to get out of the Truman Show' that he believed was filming him in his home town, according to ABC News.

Drs Joel and Ian Gold, researchers at New York University and McGill University in Montreal, respectively, recently published a series of case studies about suffers of 'Truman Show' delusions.

Their article in the journal Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, followed five patients who believed their lives were the center of a secret TV show.

One patient traveled to New York City and walked in a federal building and demanded to see 'the director.' He said he had to come to Manhattan because he believed the World Trade Center attacks had been faked for the TV show being filmed around him, according to BuzzFeed.

He said he had to see for himself whether the twin towers were still standing. If they weren't, he said, it would be final proof that he was the unwilling star of a reality TV program.

So now we can add the "Truman Show" to the list of "Mental Illnesses?" Wonder what they are going to call those that suffer from wanting to attack, and eat, PEOPLE. I think we are up to three "zombie attacks" now. In the past two weeks. Is it going to be called the "Left 4 Dead" disorder? {Video game series.} My Son's favorite by the way. 


So there you have it. The next time you are in the bathroom, and you think someone is watching you, well, they may very well be. {Smile}
Peter


Sources:
UK Daily Mail - Cases of 'Truman Show' delusions on the rise as more people believe they're the stars of their own reality TV programs By Daily Mail Reporter