Unlike Truman Show Delusion sufferers who see themselves as being the unwitting main character in a reality TV show, Telefantastic Dissociative
Delusional Disorder sufferers see their life as being full-blown scripted, expensive serialised
drama TV Series. They frame each year of their life as being a 'season', each week roughly equating to a single 'episode' of their show.
The sufferer twists known facts and does mental gymnastics to shoehorn their mundane lives into some form of 'season arc' for their character.
They know full well that they aren'
t really in a TV show. - they just desperately want to be.
Ultimately, Telefantastic Dissociative
Delusional Disorder is just a tactic employed by the miserable to deny
reality - those who know deep down that the only way their life can have meaning is not through art or expression, giving and charity, a relationship with God but instead by forcibly contextualising everything as being a carefully scripted, story-boarded and rehearsed piece of fiction to be consumed by only the sufferer themselves.
The sufferer inevitably commits suicide or dies in their 'series finale' - Whether their TV Series achieved excellence and a satisfactory conclusion (Breaking
Bad), was cancelled before its
time and fondly remembered (Party Down), went seasons too long and became a shadow of itself (The Simpsons), (Dexter) can only be determined by the dead sufferer's
friends and
family at the funeral.
Q; "What's wrong with Caleb? He said he hadn't seen me since 'Season 2', and that he thought I'
d been written out, whatever that means?
A: "Dude yeah he's got Telefantastic Dissociative
Delusional Disorder' - just nod and smile. He'll
kill himself if he thinks his show might be getting cancelled or resorting to cheap plot twists"
