Mass Hysteria and Shared delusional disorder folie a deux

[SANDHYAV]

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I am not a psychiatrist, i know there are couple of doctors including a GP in this forum. but this one intrigued me yesterday.

disclosing my profession will not be useful to this forum anyway!!

Shared psychotic disorder is also known as folie a deux ("the folly of two"). It is a rare condition in which an otherwise healthy person (secondary case) shares the delusions of a person with a psychotic disorder (primary case), such as schizophrenia, who has well-established delusions. For example: A person with a psychotic disorder believes aliens are spying on him or her. The person with shared psychotic disorder will also begin to believe in spying aliens. The delusions are induced in the secondary case and usually disappear when the people are separated. Aside from the delusions, the thoughts and behavior of the secondary case usually are fairly normal.
This disorder usually occurs only in long-term relationships in which one person is dominant and the other is passive. In most cases, the person in whom the delusions are induced is dependent on or submissive to the person with the psychotic disorder. The people involved often are reclusive or otherwise isolated from society and have close emotional links with each other. The disorder also can occur in groups of individuals who are closely involved with a person who has a psychotic disorder.

 

[Brahin]

May be they are in love so they share everything including illness.

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Mental illness and delusions too??? :nono:

Both must be OFF their hooks :loco:

to empathize illness of this kind!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Obviously madness is infectious

in addition to being hereditary!!! :bolt:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

May be they are in love so they share everything including illness.

Life is caring and sharing but not

delusions and mental afflictions! :nono:

 

[suraju06]

Dear Sandhya,

Yes. There may be people who suffer from the psychotic disorder folie a deux. So what? What you want to say has not come out clearly. And what does mass hysteria have to do with this disease?

Cheers.

 

[renuka]

Mental illness and delusions too??? :nono:

Both must be OFF their hooks :loco:

to empathize illness of this kind!

Dear VR ji,

After many years of being a doctor I have come to realize that if we want to get a point across sometimes medical jargon only confuses the situation and before we know a new syndrome will be diagnosed.

So let me explain to you in simple words what Folie A Deux and mass hysteria means:

Its like this : Just say I am mad..and you hang around me all the while..eventually you will become mad too and if you hang around others long enough ..everyone becomes mad too!LOL

So there is a risk of everyone in Forum getting infected by this! Ha Ha Ha

 

[renuka]

May be they are in love so they share everything including illness.

Dear Brahin,

You are right....They are madly in love!

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Are WE all running the risk of catching the infection from one :fear:

single mind of determination and devotion to spread it??? :heh:

Close circuit prorogation of clinical conditions!!! :scared:

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Dear Brahin,

You are right....They are madly in love!

Love itself is separated from madness by hairline. :decision:

So saying that "they are in love" implies that

they both are both mad and in love.

So when are madly in mad-love....??? :shocked:

 

[renuka]

Are WE all running the risk of catching the infection from one :fear:

single mind of determination and devotion to spread it??? :heh:

Close circuit prorogation of clinical conditions!!! :scared:

Dear VR ji,

The worst part is if anyone of us gets infected we won't even realize it cos no mad person ever admits they are mad!LOL

 

[renuka]

Dear VR ji,

Just to add....I don't think this Shared delusional disorder folie a deux is true..cos you see most Indian men claim their wives are dominant in their long standing marriages.
If the dominant partner influences the thinking of the passive partner how come we have not seen any married Indian men wearing saree and becoming his other half in thought,word and deed?

 

[Visalakshi Ramani]

Dear Renu,

If a wife really dominates her husband will try to get rid of her in any one of

these four ways...saama, daana, bedha and dandam.

It is the man who is influencing his wife.

Want solid proof???

Just see how many women have started wearing male attires.

I am reminded on one funny incident.

The man in the house lost his temper and told his wife, "I am the one who

wears this in our house" and showed her a pair of trousers.

As (bad) luck would have it, they happened to be her pair of trousers!!!