It’s Crazy Times for Crazies Around the World, but it Ain’t my Time to be Loony & Yet Just Another Crazy Blurb By Marc Chamot:

It’s Crazy Times for Crazies Around the World, but it Ain’t my Time to be Loony & Yet Just Another Crazy Blurb By Marc Chamot:

Now that the year is coming to an end, maybe, and just maybe, it will improve for us all next year including for those crazies out there. Hopefully.

This Chamot may sound bitter and angry at times in his postings, but he’s certainly no medical candidate for Zoloft and thank goodness for that! Not yet anyway, I’m sure.

Thank God for the sane bloggers on Entrecard and Zimbio, helping keep this Chamot occupied from strict boredom at times.

Finding good stories to post can be very difficult at times. It just “ain’t” easy in this world of blogging these days. So many blogs, with so many talented writers, it’s just awesome, and can be extremely competitive at times.

It’s been a tough year for everyone economically including for yours truly over here, and especially for nutcases all over the world. We’ve had our fair share of deranged people acting violently this year and last, more than ever before.

2008, has been practically brutal abroad than here at home for innocent folks. But we do have our share of crazies out and about here in the states, and they are bountiful indeed.

Remembering the poor souls lost at Virginia Tech on April 16th 2007 where 32 people lost their lives to an un-medicated loony bin.

The most recent tragic bombings massacre and attacks in Mumbai India, president to be BHO needs to take note that terrorists are not our friends, and they never will be our friends. You cannot reason with these murderous bands of crazy Muslim zealots.

Can we compare craziness with ignorance or just sheer stupidity? For example, back around 1978 a movie was made called Capricorn One, starting with our very popular L.A. double slayer O.J. Simpson; it’s about a hoax landing on Mars perpetrated by a fictitious NASA. The astronauts involved were targeted for death to cover up the sham.

Since that movie was made 20 percent of Americans now believe that the 1969 lunar landings were a hoax also.

And now we got a newer breed of these un-medicated loonies running amuck.

Ever since the filming of “The Truman Show”, with the ever zany and talented actor Jim Carrey, about a guy believing that his life is a reality show, a new phenomena of loony loons are out there coming out of their crevasses, believing that their lives delve around openly where people are seeing them act live. Whoa!

It just ceases to amaze me, seeing these brainless pieces of garb walking around, breathing, and moving amongst us. It’s pretty “durn” scary folks!

Maybe movie ratings should be of mental capacitating ratings, rather than age, don’t you think? It should be like movie ratings For IQ 140 and Above Appropriate Viewing Audience, or something like that. OMG! My life is being seen through my blogs! Who do I bitch to?

Well folks, the year is coming to a dramatic end, we’ve got a wonderful Christmas holiday coming up, and hopefully you will enjoy it, and let’s not forget the crazies out there also. And we got a new president coming on board early next year, and oh boy! How crazy has the year gone by. What more can we want out of this crazy world eh?

Oh well, here it is:

For some patients, life is like a reality show
‘Truman syndrome’ leads sufferers to think they are secretly taped for TV
updated 12:12 p.m. PT, Mon., Nov. 24, 2008

NEW YORK - 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.

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

Gold and his brother, a psychologist, started presenting their observations at medical schools in 2006. After word spread beyond medical circles this summer, they learned of about 50 more people with similar symptoms. The brothers are now working on a scholarly paper.

Meanwhile, researchers in London described a "Truman syndrome" patient in the British Journal of Psychiatry in August. The 26-year-old postman "had a sense the world was slightly unreal, as if he was the eponymous hero in the film," the researchers wrote.

The Oscar-nominated movie stars Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank. He leads a merrily uneventful life until he realizes his friends and family are actors, his seaside town is a TV soundstage and every moment of his life has been broadcast.

His struggle to sort out reality and illusion is heartwarming, but researchers say it's often horrifying for "Truman syndrome" patients.

A few take pride in their imagined celebrity, but many are deeply upset at what feels like an Orwellian invasion of privacy. The man profiled in the British journal was diagnosed with schizophrenia and is unable to work. One of Gold's patients planned to commit suicide if he couldn't leave his supposed reality show.

Sweeping delusionsDelusions can be a symptom of various psychiatric illnesses, as well as neurological conditions such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. Some drugs also can make people delusional.

It's not unusual for psychiatrists to see delusional patients who believe their relatives have been replaced by impostors or who think figures in their lives are taking on multiple disguises.

But "Truman" delusions are more sweeping, involving not just some associates but society at large, Gold said.

Delusions tend to be classified by broad categories, such as the belief that one is being persecuted, but research has shown culture and technology can also affect them. Several recent studies have chronicled delusions entwined with the Internet such as a patient in Austria who believed she had become a walking webcam.

Reality television may help such patients convince themselves their experiences are plausible, according to the Austrian woman's psychiatrists, writing in the journal Psychopathology in 2004.

Ian Gold, a philosophy and psychology professor at McGill University in Montreal who has researched the matter with his brother, suggests reality TV and the Web, with their ability to make strangers into intimates, may compound psychological pressure on people who have underlying problems dealing with others.

That's not to say reality shows make healthy people delusional, "but, at the very least, it seems possible to me that people who would become ill are becoming ill quicker or in a different way," Ian Gold said. Full Story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27893935/