Mental Health Humor: Ask Dr. Bob Bob Reality T.V.

Question:

Dr. Bob Bob, I CAN’T believe it, my
life is so cool! See, I have my own
Reality T.V. Show. It’s on 24 hours a
day but I’m not allowed to see it and
the cameras are hidden so well I can’t
see them. There is no host or grand
prize and I can’t be voted out!  I want
you to be a guest next Monday,
Signed: Reality Gone

Dr Bob Bob’s Answer:

Dear Reality Gone, I hate to break it to you but you are not in a show.
You’re suffering from delusions of grandeur with Truman syndrome.
You need help before your show winds up getting canceled or you
might get stuck in re-runs… But, just in case I’m wrong, Monday will be
fine. Let’s just meet at the cafe in La La Land say around noon..

To some psychiatric patients, life seems like TV

 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.”

Researchers have begun documenting what they dub the “Truman syndrome,” a delusion afflicting people who are convinced that their lives are secretly playing out on a reality TV show. Scientists say the disorder underscores the influence pop culture can have on mental conditions.

“The question is really: Is this just a new twist on an old paranoid or grandiose delusion … or is there sort of a perfect storm of the culture we’re in, in which fame holds such high value?” said Dr. Joel Gold, a psychiatrist affiliated with New York’s Bellevue Hospital.

Within a two-year period, Gold said he encountered five patients with delusions related to reality TV. Several of them specifically mentioned “The Truman Show.”

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