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What about gangstalking?

Victims of gangstalking may not always understand the details of who is following them, and why they are being harassed. They may act out in ways that mimic a delusional person, and that is what the gangstalkers want to happen. How many of these "Truman Show" people are really being gangstalked? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.0.250.61 (talk) 01:56, 1 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

See the gangstalking article, which describes it as a "persecutory delusion", i.e. not real. Equinox ◑ 18:35, 11 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No history before the film?

I find it hard to believe that this delusion is nowhere in the literature prior to the film, and that it had no name. — PhilHibbs | talk 09:22, 30 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Why? Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:21, 31 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Because it is wrong. This is clearly an instance of derealization, and I myself have lived in movies previously. As it's described here, Truman delusion is exactly a subset of derealization. 2A02:8108:46BF:E773:24D3:7CD4:2BB:205 (talk) 14:41, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mentalist microaggressions throughout

The article repeatedly and erroneously refers to disease; and inflammatory, misguided, and biased words such as psychosis and schizophrenia are readily contained in the referenced main article on "delusion." It's like this was written by a psychiatrist in 2005 who hasn't followed the trajectory of contemporary thinking on mental issues since the 80s.

References to DSM-V barely complicate my metaphor, as no DSM has improved much beyond the first, which was a manual on how to bill insurance companies. I'm not grinding a political ax but merely offering that the language used is hopelessly out of date. Dale C-A (talk) 05:27, 2 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Page moved from "The Truman Show delusion" to "Truman Show delusion"

You can have "a Truman Show delusion". The word "the" is not part of the delusion name, even though it's part of the movie's name. Similarly, you'd say "a Beatles album", not "a The Beatles album". Equinox ◑ 18:37, 11 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]