Blog #8

Jamel Blair
Doctor X
Truman 
Syndrome
10/29/10

Is Life an Delusion?

Truman Syndrome is a delusion, Delusion is a fixed belief that is fake or fanciful, people who is convinced that their lives are a reality TV show. Joel Gold is a psychiatrist that studies the reason for the Truman Syndrome with his brother Ian Gold. Scientist says that delusion is influence by popular culture as TV and the Internet that can have on mental conditions as schizophrenia, Parkinson and Alzheimer’s diseases.

I think that the Truman syndrome is an epidemic that have been around for many year for as long as humans have recoded in history. The roman empire many of it people strive on engineering and building. On the other hand a small part of it’s population think that their were gods and believed in the gods of nature like the sun, water and rain, they even had name for then such as the god of water  Neptune. The Truman syndrome was visible as far back as then and is now visible even in 1999 like the Truman show.

The director of the Truman show had an acting role in the movie, he play the god who created Truman world. In Truman’s world he had a God that he did not know existed.The movie Truman is also a good case of the Truman syndrome, in the movie Jim Carry play the star of the movie as Truman Burbank a man that is hold life is broadcast in a popular TV show that was involuntary. In the Truman show his entire family and friend were all actors and his seaside town was an TV sound stage. Truman had problem to sort out the real from the fake in his life There were many cases like the Truman show like the man profiled in the British journal as schizophrenia and was unable to work. Schizophrenia is the difficultly to tell the difference between real an unreal experiences. Gold said “that the Truman delusion are more common an involving not only to the a small community but a large society.” Gold all so ask is it just an new trend or an old grandiose delusion, or that it is real and we are in an reality show. In two or two an an half years Gold said “that he came in contact with five other patients with the same delusion related to the Truman TV show.” Gold and his brother who  is all so an psychologist too, started to study an observation of medical school in two thousand six soon after started to spread to different part of the medical circles the summer coming, their they lean about fifty more people with the similar symptoms. Joel and Ian Gold are starting to work on a scholarly paper together.

Delusions has a large branch to it like the belief that he or she is being persecuted or that they are involved with a bigger scram like the 1999 movie the matrix were we are in an invontorial reality show and we can’t get out this has been researched by Vaughan Bell another psychologist. Technology and popular culture can affect them too; as the web-cam or the Internet, like a patient in Austria believed that she has become a walking web-cam. These matters can show that the TV and Internet can make people in to intimates when they are not, cause of psychological pressure they cannot deal with from other people. An intimate is to make known especially publicly or formally/announce, this is why they think that their life are broadcast cause of purser from different stresses related like schizophrenia, Parkinson and Alzheimer’s diseases. Schizophrenia is a mental illness that usually strikes in late adolescence or early adulthood, but can strike at any time in life; Parkinson's disease is a disorder of the central nervous system, which affects more than one million Americans and Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a slowly progressive disease of the brain that is characterized by impairment of memory and eventually by disturbances in reasoning, planning, language, and perception.