Etymology

Truman Show delusion

Today it means: 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. Full definition →

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The story

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.)

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