Cases of ‘Truman Show’ delusions on the rise as more people believe they’re the stars of their own reality TV programs
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Reality 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.