MD on May 15, 2023
These pairs tend to have a close emotional connection to each other. But apart from that, they usually don’t have strong social ties.
Shared psychotic disorders can also happen in groups of people who are closely involved with a person who has a psychotic disorder (called folie à plusiers, or "the madness of many"). For instance, this could happen in a cult if the leader is psychotic and their followers take on their delusions.
Experts don’t know why it happens. But they believe that stress and social isolation play a role in its development.
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