Folie à Plusieurs

My friend Michael just had to share this with me, and I just had to write about it. I cannot possibly dismiss this. It's interesting information you might actually appreciate.

Folie à deux (English pronunciation: /fɒˈli ə ˈduː/, from the French for "a madness shared by two") (or shared psychosis) is a[1] psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief are transmitted from one individual to another. The same syndrome shared by more than two people may be called folie à trois, folie à quatre, folie en famille or even folie à plusieurs ("madness of many"). Recent psychiatric classifications refer to the syndrome as shared psychotic disorder (DSM-IV) (297.3) and induced delusional disorder (F.24) in the ICD-10, although the research literature largely uses the original name. The disorder was first conceptualized in 19th century French psychiatry.[2]

I am not surprised the French just had to coin a term for it. What with all the artists and writers that ended up in Paris back in the early 1900s, they were left with all that work to figure out how to glue these people's minds.

Forgive me, I am harsh. I'm not just talking about insane artists and writers. I mean everyone. I actually believe every individual has some sort of psychological disorder, some more intense than others. I believe any person will just have to lose it at some point. This is, after all, a mad world. It just takes 5 minutes of watching morning news to realize that. For others, I think their simple quirks just becomes a bit more apparent when they're under the public eye. Psychological instability is no exception. It will be glorified horrendously by media.

This could very well be more fatal than AIDS and various VD. We don't have to have unprotected sex to transmit beliefs. Although, I think doing so would heighten the delusion. In any case, up to what extent do we have to believe in the impossible to become a candidate for this syndrome? Does pursuing tumultuous, seemingly unrealistic goals qualify as impossible?

"You're not crazy. Crazy people don't know they're crazy."

Pulled back my hazy mind from frolicking Jupiter. Now, where was I? Right.

What cracks me up gets me by. I'm damn getting by.