Paranoia - The Truman syndrome


William suddenly was afraid that everybody could look into his mind. Basically he was self conscious. It seemed to him that his colleagues were aware or even see all the thoughts and images floating in his mind.

He wanted to shut his mind. The TV at home and the intercoms in public places seemed to be talking to him saying things depending on what he was thinking.

It was scary and very discomforting. It was practically being nude in public. Suppose he imagined himself to be in bed with his girl friend. The whole world could see the all the images of her his mind was conjuring up.

He did not know if it was a malady or was happening for real. He wanted to control his mind by ejecting all disturbing thoughts. The best solution seemed to make his mind blank. He was in panic.

This interfered with all his work - personal and official. He was going into strange imaginations and his mind was fabricating horrible scenarios that his home and in fact the office and the whole world was tapped to delve into the recesses of his mind.

Oh God - was this real - too scary. He was in panic that there were cassettes and cassettes of compromising images from his mind. He needed help bad but it did not occur to him that this help could or should be medical.

His productivity at the office was dropping toward zero at an alarming rate. If this pattern continued he would soon be without a job.

And the worst did happen and he had no way of discerning the real from imagination. He was in for a life long journey full of agony. And he could not do much about it. 

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