I think everybody's interesting when we are first getting to know them. But if either of us is stuck, not growing, then eventually familiarity and or sameness will give rise to an experience of someone not being interesting. I like how Ammachi says that Love is never bored. I notice when I'm what I'll call in the zone, I'm not bored, even if everything and everyone is the same on the surface of life.
________________________________ From: Susan <waybac...@yahoo.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 8:04 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Uber-narcissists who would fit right in on FFL This does not sound like narcissism, but psychosis/paranoia/schizophrenia or something in that ballpark. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > These folks remind me of people like Robin, who assume that they're > actually interesting enough that people would want to tune into their > lives full-time. > Cases of 'Truman Show' delusions on the rise as more people believe > they're the stars of their own reality TV programsReality TV shows are > making increasing numbers of people convinced that they're the stars of > their own, unwanted television programs. > Psychiatrists are treating more people for so-called 'Truman Show' > delusions -- named after the 1998 movie starring Jim Carrey as a man > who spends his entire life unwittingly at the center of a fictional > world that's being broadcast to millions of homes. > > The startling cases often afflict successful people who develop > paranoid fantasies that they're being filmed at all times and that the > world that's in front of them isn't real. > [Truman Show] > They're being watched: People suffering from 'Truman Show' delusions > believe they are the star of a TV program like Jim Carrey's character > in the 1998 movie > > Their friends and loves ones are actors. The news they see on TV is > made up to control the way they think. The things that happen to them > are merely events staged for the amusement of others. > > > The result can turn disturbing and even violent. > In 2009, Anthony Waterlow killed his father and his sister in Australia > because he believed they were broadcasting his life to the world as > part of a game show to either murder him or convince him to kill > himself. > > During a psychological exam, he specially mentioned 'The Truman Show,' > according to the Sydney Morning Herald > -20110412-1dcpz.html#ixzz1wHr2bspd> . > > [Truman show] > Affliction: The paranoid suspicion of being spied on has driven some > people to violence -- even murder -- in event years > > In 2007, psychiatrist William Johns III allegedly assaulted a > 2-year-old and his mother in New York City after he left his home in > Florida because he 'had to get out of the Truman Show' that he believed > was filming him in his home town, according to ABC News > . > > > Drs Joel and Ian Gold, researchers at New York University and McGill > University in Montreal, respectively, recently published a series of > case studies about suffers of 'Truman Show' delusions. > > > Their article in the journal Cognitive Neuropsychiatry > > , followed five patients who believed their lives were the center of a > secret TV show. > > > One patient traveled to New York City and walked in a federal building > and demanded to see 'the director.' He said he had to come to Manhattan > because he believed the World Trade Center attacks had been faked for > the TV show being filmed around him, according to BuzzFeed > mmon> . > > He said he had to see for himself whether the twin towers were still > standing. If they weren't, he said, it would be final proof that he was > the unwilling star of a reality TV program. >
