Folie a deux crazy things too people can do or think
By winterose
@winterose (39887)
Canada
February 13, 2008 11:46am CST
folie a deux is a psychological term coming from the french meaning two (deux) people sharing crazy (folie) ideas.
how it applies to psychology is that doctors have noticed that when there is a member of a family who is mentally ill not long after that person's spouse or very close love one will begin to think or feel the same, and start to share the same experience.
a example would be a person who claims to see ghosts whereas the other person never did but after awhile that other person starts to see them too,
or perhaps the mentally ill person is afraid of people and stays at home and never socializes securing the door with 15 locks, then the next thing you know the other person in the house who once was a very social person now too is hiding themselves in the house and does not social anymore,
can you think of two people that this may have happened to?
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@joyceshookery (2057)
• United States
15 Feb 08
This doesn't fall into the category of mental or psychological problems, but sometimes two people who have been together for a long time have the same thought or think of the same song at the same time. That happened between my former significant other and I on occasion. I'd start singing a song and he'd say he had just been thinking that song.
As far as "seeing" things together or becoming OCD or agorophobic together -- I haven't known any two people who shared any such thing.
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