Do you feel like Big Brother is watching you?
You watch reality TV shows, but what if you thought your whole life was one? Psychiatrist Joel Gold say he’s begun treating a set of new symptoms, “The Truman Show delusion,” in which people think their entire existence is being televised in secret.
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