Joel Gold, director of psychiatrics at the Bellevue Hospital Center, revealed that by 2008, he had met five patients with schizophrenia (and heard of another twelve) who believed their lives were reality television shows. Gold named the syndrome after the film, and attributed the particular delusion to a world that had become publicity hungry. Gold stated some patients were rendered happy by their disease, while "others were tormented. One came to New York to check whether the World Trade Center had actually fallen – believing 9/11 to be an elaborate plot twist in his personal storyline. Another came to climb the Statue of Liberty, believing that he'd be reunited with his high-school girlfriend at the top, and finally be released from the 'show'."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truman_Show#.22The_Truman_Show_Delusion.22

11/5/2008 8:02:00 PM

I used to have a disorder similar to this effect, but I was more of an Andy Kaufman type delusion rather than these psychos.

11/5/2008 8:05:34 PM