Watching any Jim Carrey film inspires, and occasionally induces, mental illness. So not surprised, no.

Have you even seen a grown man come out of a rhino, Jimmy?

Come to think of it, my family always seemed a little - odd, and I thought that Mount Rushmore was a lot bigger than it looked...

The answer didn't surprise me at all.

I always wondered why Mom put out the cereal boxes with the labels facing outward, and why she never handed me a can of Diet Coke without a wink and a broad smile

Worst. Riddler. Evar.

Came in here to say, "All of them," but I see that's sorta been done. Thanks for stealing my line.

I thought it was going to be people who wear masks and think it makes them a different and very manic person, like that one movie he was in, "The Guy With The Green Face"

I dunno - eternal sunshine would have been a pretty good one too, for stalkers.

Cue the pic of Cartman with a satellite dish up his ass.

Dumb and Dumber?

/Florida
//Darwin

"I realized that I was and am the centre, the focus of attention by millions and millions of people," explained one patient, an army veteran who came from an upper-middle-class upbringing.

"My family and everyone I knew were and are actors in a script, a charade whose entire purpose is to make me the focus of the world's attention."



Oh shiat everyone, he's on to us.

The Mask made me retarded.

Have these people ever considered turning their own TV on to verify that they are in fact actually on TV?

Here is how you turn this problem around!

Old news. I've believed this since 1972 when I was in third grade.

Eventually you stop caring about ratings . . .

Big deal, I had this in the early 80s and would look at and make comments to my studio audience when appropriate.

/Serious, sadly enough

Unimpressed:

Got it wrong, first three picks were:
1) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2) Bruce Almighty
3) The Mask

/Way off
//Certified movie nerd now

I thought my family were lizards that dressed up in human skins and clothing....

jimmywanger: I dunno - eternal sunshine would have been a pretty good one too, for stalkers.

God damn that movie sucked.

This is not in any way new. It is just a modern spin on the oft- quoted and stoner inspired hippie-era belief that we were all living in a big cardboard box in some kids closet and the stars were the holes that he cut out for us to breathe through.

Great movie though. In my top 3. Maybe #1.

Guessed it.

QUICK! LETS MEDICATE IT!

I'm pretty sure that illness existed before the truman show.

I thought it was Kilgore Trout Syndrome.

I remember the good old days when you could call these people delusional fools and be done with them. Now they're registered as handicapped, given full ADA protection, and can collect free money from the government for their newly-dubbed "disability." God forbid you need to fire one.

/still waiting for the day chronic masturbation is considered a disability
//chronic Farking already is ...

inelegy: Old news. I've believed this since 1972 when I was in third grade.

Beat me by 5 seconds....and apparently 10 years


Eventually you stop caring about ratings . . .


God, this is so true. You do a couple of the big event shows, a couple of spin offs, but in the end it's just filler.

Actually, that was the first movie that came to mind.

Oh and this:
Link (new window)

"Truman", as good as it was, swiped from Paul Bartel's "Secret Cinema" in '68 or so

http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Island/3102/secret.htm

I was guessing Ace Ventura

Thought it was the Cable Guy. This makes more sense though.

Joel and Ian Gold, brothers and psychiatrists from Montreal, believe they have discovered a signature mental illness of the YouTube era: patients who claim they are subjects of their own reality TV shows.

Our whole existence is a reality show for aliens. Just ask the ice cream pooping taco.

inelegy: Old news. I've believed this since 1972 when I was in third grade.

Eventually you stop caring about ratings . . .

Heh, I thought this when I was in third grade too. I moved from Texas to PA and thought I saw the same girl in my elementary school and thought that they were recycling actors.

/dork

Sounds like solipsism to me.

My first guess was The Number 23.

i thought for sure it was going to be earth girls are easy.

b-l-a-n-d!

/got nothin'.

A friend of mine had a stalker that had this "illness." He would always write her letters explaining that they were the only "real" people and everyone else was just acting and watching them and he referenced the Truman Show in his letters. She eventually called the police because he wouldn't leave her alone, would sit outside her apartment for hours, and he started threatening her.

Gosling: My first guess was The Number 23.

Mine too.
My second guess was Fun with Dick and Jane.

okay, I actually went through this when I was much older. Right after my senior year in high school in fact, after I saw the Truman show and began smoking lots of pot.

It cleared up after a couple of years, but that was some insane paranoia.

Jim Carrey only plays characters that are a little touched in the head. That makes it hard to single out any new mental illnesses.

laterthanyou: I thought my family were lizards that dressed up in human skins and clothing....




Did you happen to celebrate "Liberation Day?"

Sgt Otter: Worst. Riddler. Evar.

Ever seen the version that's in "The Batman," the most recent cartoon?

I can't believe we sucked each other jagoffs.

Ah horse shiat... there's a new Jim Carrey movie coming out that tries to link evil vaccines with autism?

Oh... Truman.

When I was about 12 or 13, I actually did suspect that the world revolved around me. I'm not even joking... every once in awhile, I'd wonder if it really was all about me.

/those thoughts died once I hit freshman year of high school.
//because it was obvious that the world didn't revolve around me...

wildcardjack: Jim Carrey only plays characters that are a little touched in the head. That makes it hard to single out any new mental illnesses.



This delusion could explain the spike in attention whoring.

Vampirism?



/hotlinked, sorry

So when is religion going to be classified a delusion?

Unlike these crazy farms, I really do have a CIA chip implanted in my

I once believed that when I grew up, my parents would reveal to me the horrible reality of the human race, and I was constantly trying to figure out what it was before then.

I was thinking "Liar, Liar," but upon reading the article, I have this illness.