Fregoli's disturbing syndrome

Imagine that a month ago you have been fired from work.You had a "inhuman" boss who complicated your life a lot and you don't keep a good memory.It's been a few weeks of all that and suddenly, just when you go up to the subway you find it .What a horror… you run away to avoid crossing it and just when you go up the escalators and turn around, you realize that you have it behind.

But its clothes are different: goes disguised as a woman .Is it a nightmare? You leave the subway station and you reach the street.Just when you look up to see if you have already lost sight of it, you realize that everyone, absolutely all the people you cross, has the face of your Boss.

The lord of the fruit shop, the one who offers you a newspaper, the woman who asks you for a donation for an NGO...they are all under different costumes.What is happening? This horrible situation is the one experienced by all patients suffering from Fregoli syndrome.

A strange disorder that despite its curious appearance, contains a real torture for those who suffer and for the patient's relatives.Would you like to know more?

Fregoli syndrome, a desperate delirium

Not long ago we talked to you about Capgra's syndrome.As you will remember, in the a person perceived as his relatives or any being close to him, suddenly became impostors.They were strangers wearing masks of loved ones.Terrible.In the Fregoli syndrome almost the opposite happens, but with a more desperate emotional impact.

The strangers acquire the face of someone known.And even more, in a few seconds everyone who crosses with him, will have the same face.This syndrome was first described in 1927, when P.Courbon and G.fall tried to treat a young Londoner who claimed to be persecuted for two actors I had seen in the theater.A few days later, I kept saying that everyone had acquired the shape of those two faces.

Fregoli's disturbing syndrome

The name for this disorder was taken from a real person, from an Italian actor named Leopoldo Fregoli , who had the ability to make very rapid changes of appearance in the middle of the theater.In a blink of an eye, he changed his clothes and acquired a new personality.Something striking that fit very well with This problem is not very frequent, but it is really tragic for the people who experience it.

Despair comes especially because they are sure that everyone wants to make fun of him, that they disguise themselves with the intention of torturing them acquiring the face of those known people.Many patients describe, for example, that they see their father in all places.Authentic human tides of individuals with different outfits, but with the same face: that of their relative.

Fregoli's disturbing syndrome

But, why is this problem actually ? What is behind Fregoli's syndrome? There is talk of a severe brain trauma in the temporoparietal areas, a problem that causes serious paranoid delusions and hallucinations.There may also be deficits in visual memory and even usually associated with epileptic problems.In terms of treatment, it should be said that everything depends on each case and the reality of each person, but usually antipsychotics , antidepressants and even anticonvulsants are used.

They are rare syndrome that science must still unravel and understand more deeply.For now, and beyond simple curiosity, we cannot fail to understand the complex nightmare in which they must live these patients.

Fregoli's disturbing syndrome

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