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Sector7G · Joined: 24 May 2008

It's about Randy Quaid and his wife, but if you are looking for some kind of point to this thread, sorry! I just like the the whole "love can make you crazy" theme, not to mention the new term that has been coined.

As Gollum would say, "We likes it!"

http://www.popeater.com/2010/12/01/randy-and-evi-quaid-folie-a-deux-mental-health/?ncid=webmail

Taya · Joined: 09 Jan 2009 Location: Changwon

This applies to the internet as well.

See: otherkin communities

Kaypea · Joined: 09 Oct 2008

Folie-a-deux is not a new term. It can refer to, say, Bonnie and Clyde, but it's older then them, too.

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

Can this really be called a new syndrome?

I assumed this would come under the umbrella of peer reinforcement or group solidarity behaviour, except this group comprises of only two.

Tundra_Creature · Joined: 11 Jun 2009 Location: Canada

DorkothyParker · Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Location: Jeju

Can it only be used to describe extreme cases or would it apply to, say, couples who wear matching sweatsuits to the grocer or heavily overweight couples who feed each other's eating disorders?

tomato · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 3:37 am Post subject:

How about Bo and Peep, also called Him and Her?
They were the leaders of the Heaven's Gate cult.
I have heard the term applied to them.

Fox · Joined: 04 Mar 2009

So if two people believe something implausible due to constant social reinforcement from one another, it's a type of madness. But if, say, a billion people believe something equally implausible due to constant social reinforcement from one another, that's different?

Yeah, okay.

Died By Bear · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 4:03 am Post subject:

tomato · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 4:22 am Post subject:

In that case, they should call it a folie a milliard.
And that would be a good name for it, too.
I know because I used to work as a volunteer at a mental health center.

Junior · Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Location: the eye

le-paul · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Location: dans la chambre

this is a 'syndrome' becasue its been given a 'label'.

Like the other poster said, this has been going on forever and was previously known as 'reinforcement' (for example asking specific people advice, based on what you know the answer will be).

Theres a lot of BS in mental health and it offers people the chance to stick labels on themselves and others (ie doctor -patient) so that they can be pigeonholed into an easy, conventient treatment (and often in the case of patients, instead of taking any responsibility for their own lability). In most cases, people just strart to act out the disorder once they hear about them.

Theres no evidence that a lot of the treatments work either.

The US is king of sticking labels on people for fadish disorders and is therefore where disorders such as 'dual personality disorder' begin. This disorder does not exist in Europe as far as I know.

Says a lot really