has anyone else, do to phycosis, hurt themselves in confusion, stress, or depression?
I hear it from my therapist all the time, and I've always wondered how common it is.
pretty simple question that I can't seem to find online.
Comment from first deleted post on RBI:
"A sub meant to help people on real life investigations, The name and exact workings of the story are not congruent with the actual situation I am trying to look into. The questions are different, but structured in a way that the awnsers will awnser the right questions.
I promise its not an ARG, im just a very fluid writer going through something profound."
Let's think of the Truman show for a second, does anyone recall wondering how Truman didnt know his whole life was a lie? Didnt he wonder why certain people said one thing, but clearly felt another? You can hear something someone says and it rings through your mind, but the impact is lost when their emotions and body launguage say the opposite.
People often blame father's for having the words but not the actions. Its a common trope that a lot of people might settle on. Loving somebody with the love they understand is a difficult thing for most. Most people prefer actions but words are easy.
Coming back to the Truman show, did he ever get a "sign" ? Obviously no one ever said it to his face , or the whole movie would be busted. Did any compassionate and/or cruel soul place a flimsy but whimsical sign? Think of a shirt going missing, or a marker that you used to have 4 of. Are these awnsers? Or do they just muddy another sense that you need to count the world as true? See, the thing about Truman is he, as it stands, is a perfectly mentally healthy man. He doesn't hear voices or see anything that isn't there. But he does notice patterns, loops, these loops are the actors running low on script. If you talk to a person for long enough their verbal memory bank of words they have acquired gets old. It gets dry to the point where people are predictable, give someone 100 people to listen too and it takes 25 years. After that time you will notice things being uncanny, they will give you a sense of deja vu.
I'd consider Truman lucky, there are points in the movie, of course. Where Truman sees something that doesn't make sense. A light falling from the sky? thats some cold hard evidence there, but, thats what else Truman had, a set. This set is a dome, meant to contain Trumans world through road blocks and an illuminated sky, hence the light falling from the sky.
Now what if Trumans world wasn't contained? He goes to work downtown, he lives in a two bedroom in the south end. His girlfriend is a cheating whore, paid to sleep the night at Trumans place. His mother is smoke and mirrors, empowering but full of fears. Scared of what he could do or who he could become if the mental cage she is pushed through entrancing him in wasn't so strong. This cage is infinite, it spans the globe. No matter where he goes or who he talks to, its the same game. No one knows... They don't treat Truman like he's aware of the camera that follows him day by day. People gawk and stare from behind his back, but just like DOOM, Trumans world only exists where he can percieve it. Trumans vision is like a projector of another reality. What he sees is one reality, but behind his back, its another.
Now, in a moral standing, who's responsibility is it, to "break" Truman from this gaslighting? Is it his mothers responsibility? The mean things she's done might make a mother feel worse than most. Actors who don't care might feel less guilty, but are they important enough to Truman to fully grasp the seriousness of his reality changing? What about the radio? It gives news to Truman everyday, but does he see it, or rather hear, it? If Trumans world is soaked in lies, does he not reserve the right to ignore the radio? The very world it reported on was a lie, so how does he, trying to break his gaslighting, objectively guess whether this broadcast is real and the others are fake? He can't.
So, WHO TALKS FIRST?