How Suicide, Murder and Mental Disorders Become Contagious: Twin Madness

There are many examples of how strange psychological disorders can occur. One of them is shared psychotic personality disorder. Also known as: Twin insanity.

Shared psychotic disorder is a psychological disorder that can happen to two individuals who are very close to each other.

Let’s take a couple who loves each other. Because this union is considered extremely suitable for twin insanity.

Let’s imagine that one of them has a psychological disorder for some reason.

Let’s assume that the other one is naturally healthy. What is mentioned here is not an infectious disease…

Strangely, the healthy individual begins to lose his sanity along with the other. ‘Folie a deux’, which we call twin madness, begins here.

You may think that all people who have been married or lived together for many years should be caught up in this vortex. What is at stake here is not a dual situation that suddenly developed. One of the parties jumps down the rabbit hole with the other and drowns in the depths with him…

Of course, there are special cases. Situations such as the couple having little interaction with the outside world…

We can say that the threads become tangled at the point where the ties of truth weaken…

All of this does not have to happen at the level of psychosis.

The main issue, as we have stated before, is that reality, self, and the way of perceiving the world become a single body…

Changes in the dominant character of the couple make it easier for the other to adapt to it.

This phenomenon entered the literature in the light of the works of Charles Lasègue and Jean-Pierre Falret.

But we seem to have gotten our first clues from Freud.

We can say that in such cases, Freud points to couples who make each other the most important element of their narcissism.

Or is this thing called love just a shared state of madness?

But we have to say that this situation does not only occur in love relationships. It doesn’t need just one pair, either. It can also occur in families of 3 or 4 people and in closed relationships.


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