can you "catch" a mental illness, or is it simply a

traumatizing experiences dealing with crazy people != being crazy

>>8727093
>can you "catch" a physical illness, or is it simply a temporary thing from being around the physically ill person and unconsciously taking on their bacteria as you do with everyone you are around, which then goes away when you stop being exposed to infection?

>>8727093
Everyone you interact with influences you, actually seeing some random stranger's face on TV influences you. We don't really understand our minds, much less the semi-nonexistent things that plague it. So yes, you can "catch" it, you can propagate a mental illness just by thinking about something in a certain way. Certainly you can be influenced by said mentally ill person.

>>8727093
My sister in law and her husband wen diving off into paranoia together, literally coating the rooms with tinfoil stuff. Unless it was the most unlikely coincidence of all time, their mental illness encouraged the growth if the same in the other, which to me is close enough to catching it from each other.

>>8727608
Me again, had to go look up spelling -- Folie à deux, French for "madness of two" or shared psychosis, is a psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief and hallucinations are transmitted from one individual to another.

I would suspect cases of "mass hysteria" might have some relevance to the discussion as well.