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Truman Show delusion

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Etymology

Named after The Truman Show (1998), a comedy-drama film about Truman Burbank, a man who discovers he is living in a constructed reality televised globally around the clock. (The name is a pun on true man.)

Definitions

  1. A persecutory/grandiose delusion in which the patient believes his/her life is a staged…

    A persecutory/grandiose delusion in which the patient believes his/her life is a staged play, a reality television show, etc. or that he/she is being watched by means of cameras.

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