Blog entry 2.2 The Truman Show CATW #1 practice

    Since the movie called; The Truman Show has released, many people have a sign with such a weird mental sickness. The syndromes are very similar to that main character’s personality, who starred in the movie. The Truman Show, as the passage indicates, is about a young man, who one day, figured that fact out, that his whole life was just a reality show, with actors and non-real characters.

    I can absolutely agree with that fact, the Truman Show brought a new wave in our life. I’m not even a psychologist, but I’ve realized that, since we have more communicative technology in our life, for some people, it is just more available, therefore the majority of our society got delusional, or mentally sick.

    There is a mental issue called Hypochondria, which means, people develop unrealistic fear of a serious sickness. Most of the cases, the health issue is not even exists, it’s just the imagination, but those people deeply believe that, they are actually physically sick. Even if they see something on TV, like some “trendy” physical or mental sickness, you can bet on that, sooner or later, they start to produce the symptoms. I have a relative, my grandmother, who is the living proof of this thing, is really going on. Usually, those people don’t want anything else but attention from the family to lift their loneliness.

    I, personally, blame all the communication including TV, internet, just mentioned the biggest ones. It’s definitely our urban problem .As we got far in our technology; everything became more comfortable, so this way, we just kind of copied lot of things, what we have seen on TV or on the net. There are many side effects of watching TV or surfing the web too much. Many research pointed out that, TV creates great harm not only by its influence, but also by what it prevents.

  The author states very clearly that, this disease is among us, and gives serious conditions for many people. Some of them are not even able to work, because of their condition. The passage even claims the medical observations and all the publicity, which this mental problem causes. Researchers, psychologists trying to find solutions for this sickness. Hopefully, their work will give hope for  people to get better, feel better, and live better.