Monday, November 24, 2008

To some psychiatric patients, life seems like TV (AP)

This undated movie advertisement provided by Paramount Pictures shows actor Jim Carrey starring as Truman Burbank in the 1998 movie 'The Truman Show,' in which Carrey's character discovers every moment of his life has been broadcast. Now doctors have given the name 'Truman syndrome,' to a delusion afflicting patients who believe they are living their lives in reality TV shows. (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures, File)AP - One man showed up at a federal building, asking for release from the reality show he was sure was being made of his life. Another was convinced his every move was secretly being filmed for a TV contest. A third believed everything — the news, his psychiatrists, the drugs they prescribed — was part of a phony, stage-set world with him as the involuntary star, like the 1998 movie "The Truman Show."


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