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Adding to that...if you've grown up in an environment where you're taught to believe everyone outside your family could be out to get you, is a bad person, an undercover worker for the state, will harm you or kill you, will "rip you away from your family"...that seems like the perfect breeding ground for paranoid delusions to me.
Persecutory delusions are the
most common type of delusions and involve the theme of being followed,
harassed, cheated,
poisoned or
drugged,
conspired against,
spied on,
attacked, or
otherwise obstructed in the pursuit of goals.
(
Delusion - Wikipedia)
-Parts bolded by me for emphasis, as from what I've seen, the TB family has accused various people of doing all of these things in their rambling diatribes on social media.
This led me down an interesting rabbithole, landing at Folie a deux-
Folie à deux ('madness for two'), also known as
shared psychosis or
shared delusional disorder (
SDD), is a psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a
delusional belief, and sometimes hallucinations, are transmitted from one individual to another. The same syndrome shared by more than two people may be called
folie à... trois ('three') or
quatre ('four'); and further,
folie en famille ('family madness') or even
folie à plusieurs ('madness of several').
This syndrome is most commonly diagnosed when the two or more individuals of concern live in proximity, may be socially or physically isolated, and have little interaction with other people.
- Folie imposée is where a dominant person (known as the 'primary', 'inducer' or 'principal') initially forms a delusional belief during a psychotic episode and imposes it on another person or persons (the 'secondary', 'acceptor', or 'associate') with the assumption that the secondary person might not have become deluded if left to his or her own devices. If the parties are admitted to hospital separately, then the delusions in the person with the induced beliefs usually resolve without the need of medication.
- Folie simultanée describes either the situation where two people considered to suffer independently from psychosis influence the content of each other's delusions so they become identical or strikingly similar, or one in which two people "morbidly predisposed" to delusional psychosis mutually trigger symptoms in each other.
Folie à deux - Wikipedia
Could either SB or HT's behavior be described by this? Has the paranoid delusion spread further through the family tree?
I'm also not looking for a "reason" or "excuse" to justify their actions. I'm more curious about what leads people to experience and develop such paranoid delusions, to the point a child's life is lost and they don't seem to understand the alarming importance and seriousness of the situation. Doesn't anyone else want to just shake them and tell them to, "snap out of it!"?
I have two dear friends who experienced great psychological, physical and sexual abuse at young ages who now live with lifelong mental health conditions that manifested in their 20s. One lives with schizophrenia and the other, dual identity disorder.
I feel it's important to address these environmental impacts on psychological and emotional development, as people don't just become this way for no reason overnight.
MOO.
“Frantic” really describes her and it’s quite sad when you think about her that way. As you pointed out in your post, there’s been brainwashing going on for years. I think the criminal charges against the family will just entrench the “us against them” mentality even further, rather than wake them up to realize that Evanna’s life was sacrificed in service to these beliefs. Poor child.
