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02-13-2008 02:56 PM ET (US)
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Hello! My name is Jon Maas -- and I'm a producer for the Discovery Health Channel. We are doing a series named "Mystery ER" -- and we're doing an episode on Capgras syndrome.
We're looking for stories where:
* The patient must come to the Emergency Room at some point
* There is a "mystery" at first -- IE no one can figure out that it is Capgras syndrome
If you have a story that you'd like to share with the world, let me know! Email or call me directly! We're on a deadline, so calling is no problem!
Jon Maas
626-535-0868 X 293
jmaas@mikemathisprods.com
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| shelly waxman
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02-18-2008 07:56 PM ET (US)
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English ITV is already doing a TV show about Capgras.
shelly@cybersol.com
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02-18-2008 07:57 PM ET (US)
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English ITV is already doing a TV show about Capgras. Titled, "The Dark Side of the Brain."
shelly@cybersol.com
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02-18-2008 07:58 PM ET (US)
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Besides, you could never get somebody afflicted with Capgras to an Emergency Room.
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02-18-2008 08:08 PM ET (US)
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There is a Dr. Morris B. Goldman at the University of Chicago Hospital that claims he has had partial success treating Capgras.
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03-10-2008 09:32 AM ET (US)
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Edited by author 03-12-2008 01:26 PM
My Mum has been diagnosed with Alzheimers and capgras syndrome. She rarley recognises my dad at all. Although there are only the 2 of them in the house, she believes there are sometimes up to 3 or 4 people living with them. She sometiomes get really angry that these people are using my dads stuff, sleeping in the bed and wearing his clothes but most of the time she accepts that these people are helping her( because that is what I have told her). My dad is at his wits end as they were totally devoted to each other and now he cannot even cuddle her. We could probably cope with the Alzheimers but no one seems to have any advice for us regarding capgras syndrome. She has never failed to recognise me, only my dad. Any advice ?
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10-14-2008 10:37 PM ET (US)
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I think that this syndrome is very interesting and has a possibility in being correct. Maybe this does exsist and there are things around us that are much more than we could imagine. I don't know if pumping the amazing people full of medications to supress this mentality. This may be lots to learn from in discovering our what our large brains in which we only use a minute amount of are really about.
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11-04-2008 12:39 PM ET (US)
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I have a life-long yearly battle w/ seasonal depression in which the meaning drains from everything in my experience during the darkest winter months. Among other awful effects, objects lose their familiarity and 'mine-ness'. Everything is foreign and artificial looking and this is most pronounced with the people in my life. I know that I know a particular person intimately yet the experience is one where they are suddenly just skin and hair and noise. I can see how someone with the same or similar boichemical malady might subconsciously impose the narrative of 'imposters' familiar to Capgrass Syndrome in order to continue some semblance of purposeful functioning in a devasatingly meaning-drained world. It's odd ill-logic makes perfect sense to me.
My own method of coping has often included aping the forms and feelings of meaning that are no longer present in the winter-- just to get through it. In that sense, in those situations, I am the imposter, pretending to be the same engaged meaningful friend I am at other times in the year.
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12-07-2008 08:06 PM ET (US)
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My mother - who died in 1992 - jad Capgrase syndrome for the last 25 years of her life. In watching a Science channel show aout the brain recently, I saw a woman with carpgas and her husband. And I realize - at age 60 - that I was seeing and hearing someone other than my mother with that illness for the first and only time in my life.
Seeing Dr. Morris - the Chicago doctor mentioned below - encounter this woman sure brought back memories of the complete helplessness I felt in trying to deal with my mother. (In the TV show, the capgras woman throws a glass at him and shouts him out of the house in minutes).
And yet... my mother's courage in fighting this illness - her love - changed my life for the good immesurably. But it's one hell of a condition.
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