Telefantastic dissociative delusional disorder
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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 arent 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 sufferers friends and family at the funeral.
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