Blog 4_ Truman Syndrome

The Truman Syndrome is a disorder or delusion in which a person believes that all of his or hers movements are being are being watch by someone or that there are being follow by this imaginary people. In 1998 a movie called “The Truman Show”. This movie is about a man whose whole life was being recorder in a live television show. He was trap is his own island, but the main thing was that he didn’t know that his life was being recorder and transmitted live trough national TV. All this happens since he was born. After this movie some cases were appearing in The United States and in Great Britain, psychiatrics called it “The Truman Syndrome” based on this movie. Patients describe their lives as mirroring themselves as Truman from “The Truman Show” main character of this movie played by Jim Carry. Patients start having some paranoid thoughts having fear to the internet and web is monitoring or controlling their lives. Most of the patients that psychiatrics treat mention their lives compared to Truman’s life. I search this syndrome and found various cases; some patients had similar symptoms of paranoid and their all are related to the movie “The Truman Show”.