Hello
 I had this capgras over three years now. With the right pills it can help to control it but it always is there When it happens i want to get out away from where it started for me. if you or someone you know who has capgras please email me than i wont seem so alone
              Hogma3592@aol.com

hi everyone my names paul i am the son of a capgras sufferer. my mum is now 60 poor thing had this illness over 32years the pills and potions never worked.my family was ripped apart.we were lied to by everybody concerning my mums condition.my sister was the person my mum had problems with from the age of 7 my sister never had her mum.violence there was plenty my sister was the imposter.. the fact is my sister now has power of atouney over everything concerning my poor old mum who is now at a stage where things are looking a bit brighter..but its taken me personaly over 20years plus to FINNALY get the name of her condition..the morral of my very breif story is this condition ripps the heart out of many families..but there is always hope.my god i have never spoken a single word of this to anybody its to frightning to remember..god bless u all.

       Hello I would like to talk to someone who has capgras
        Please email me Hogma3592@aol.com
                    I have it for almost 4 years
                                      Nancy

I am surprised. For all my life (48 years old now), I had have episodes when I do not recognize my image in mirrors and I do not recognize my name when someone calls.
Sometime I do not recognize my parents when a child, and so on... but those episodes last a few seconds and later I react and I can know who I am and who the other are. I supossed it was a normal thing, that everyone have this moments and never shared this.
I have a high IQ and an academic work. I thought this perceptions are linked to intellectual work. What do you think?

What s this shit....
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Edited by author 08-03-2006 01:33 PM
My deepest sympathies to those of you with Capgras syndrome. I just wanted to alert you all that a brilliant author named Richard Powers has a book coming out called "The Echo Maker" that deals with Capgras. It is a novel, but it depicts a heartbreaking portrait of how Capgras can affect family relationships.

Frank, I'm very sorry to hear of your troubles. Believe me, as I am an
additional victim of my wife's illness, I know what you have gone through.
Every morning for years when my wife and I arrive in a common area of the
house (we live on seperate ends of a ranch house) she says: "You couldn't be my husband; not in a million years." In her mind, her husband is a great guy and I, the imposter, am a terrible animal.
I wish I could give some good advice. The truth is that they know very
little about the mind. There is no help that I can give, except "grin and
bear it." Accept it for what it is and throw away any hope that there is
something that can be done. It won't happen, at least I feel it won't, not in our lifetimes, if ever.
I do believe, however, that Capgras is a syndrome of other mental illnesses and is not a delusion. My wife was diagnosed with Schizo Affective Disorder. She has been through all the medicines and, currently, is without medicine.
She seems to have adapted a lot and can get along by herself with minimal
help. She drives, cleans the house, shops, cooks, reads but she lives in
another world.
How old are you?
Where do you live?

Sheldon (Shelly) Waxman, J.D. http://www.thelawyer.info
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----- Original Message -----
From: "The Rock" <rockman_says@hotmail.com>
To: <shelly@cybersol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 10:00 PM

I am the son of a mother who has capgras. I read your note in the quick
notes. It has been 12 years of agony for us. Do you have any good advise. It seems that it is a very rare condition and i am looking for anyone who can shed some light for me because the psychiotrists we are worthless
 thanks, Frank

I meant that Capgras should be considered a symptom of other illnesses and not a "syndrome" or separate illness.

i so agree capgras should do that i mean seriously skeet skeet skeet

HI OUT THERRE.. mY 79 YR. OLD MOTHER HAS JUST BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH CAPGRAS..
WE HAVE KNOWN FOR A LONG TIME THAT SOMETHING WAS WRONG, BUT COULDN'T PUT OUR FINGER ON IT. BECAUSE THIS IS ALL NEW TO US ( FIVE SISTERS & BROTHERS)
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT..AND HAVE LOTS OF QUESTIONS.
ANYONE OUT THERE THAT CAN ANSWER US???
MY MOM COMPLETELY DOES NOT SEE MY YOUNGER SISTER ANYMORE, SHE THINKS SHE IS MY MOMS 66YR OLD SISTER...
DOES THIS PROGRESSIVELY GET WORSE??? OR WILL IT TAPER OFF NOW THAT SHE IS TAKING DRUGS??
HELP
YOU CAN EMAIL ME AT GALLERYHUB@AOL.COM