Hello to all who live with this capgras. I would very much like to hear from someone who has this illness. I have this illness I`m sure this is very hard on my husband since he is the double.
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hi,
 I am Alexia. I am writing a paper on Capgras. I find it a very interesting and sad syndrome. I am truely sorry for those who live with it and for those who are living with a spouse or relative with it. My deepest sympathys go out to you and your familys and friends.
 I was hopeing that maybe some people on here could help me out. If there is anything that you could tell me about this, it would be very helpful.
thanks,
lexi.

I too suffer from capgras syndrome and multipersonality syndrome skitso affective (bypolar type) and post tramatic stress disorder I live in alaska and was born here I was maried for 20 yrs and my family would change and peoples bodies would look distorted and their clothing looked too big or small unlike houres earlier before they left my sight often I did not know my own children and it kept getting weirder I once stayed up 27 days w/o sleep on high alert as to these clones taking my family and testing ont them.But now thet I am divorcing and have ben with my fieonsay and meds (7 kinds)they r finaly working and for 3 yrs I have had no episodes this leads me to beleave thet someone was playing with my mind because no family=no symptoms or episodes .If anyone out their has more info or would like to studie me we can talk e-mail me if you would like. and dont worie it can get better-blessings-cyn

I might be coming down with the syndrome. Recently, I have been confused by my boyfriend. One second he is wearing red and the next he is wearing a green shirt. He swears to me he has not changed clothes. Then I will notice his hair is slightly different and his face and mannerisms have slightly changed. Years ago I would forget what people would look like and be fascinated to see them after just saying good bye to them a few hours before! Somehow, they never seemed to look the same as the memory I held in my head. I feel that with age it is getting worse. I have accused my boyfriend of acting differently or being strange and he just shrugs and tells me he is moody. I have dreams that he is an imposter and is actually David Duchovney or someone else...
   I am 36 years old and have never done drugs. I do have a highly creative mind and was labeled at a young age "gifted" with intelligence. Now, I struggle with these tricks my mind is playing. I never knew there was a disease like this out there. I have had some severe head injuries but to my knowledge no lasting damage. I hope these symptoms don't get worse. The other symptom I have had is looking at the mirror and being fascinated with my face. I never seem to recognize myself as myself. Every day I look at my face and am surprised that I look different than what I remembered. I ask my friends and they say I still look the same. Can anyone help me? I do not want this to become a big problem.

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I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and Capgras syndrome. I had only short episodes where people did not look real to me. They looked like dolls to me. These episodes only lasted for like 10 minutes and after that everything was normal again. I don't have any symptomes for the last 2.5 years. I remember that i was in a store at some point and there were about 10 people around me. Two of them did not look real and the other 8 did look real. I did not thought about what those 2 (not real) people would be, my mind stopped at that point. They just did not look real. Later i thought about it and in some delusional way i thought that those (not real) people might be some sort of invention, robots of some sort doing some sort of task in the store. Now i know that i was pretty confused at that time. I have medication for schizophrenia (Risperdal) which works pretty well.

I've always been a phonie ever since birth. In front of my family i was always the angel, meanwhile, with my friends i was a whore. i am forever runing off "doin a school project", when in reality i'm doing the badass in class.
I think i suffer from multipersonality sindrome and i'm also 16. I always wanted to the my parents my problem, especially now that this situation has gotten me pregnant... I need some ones help, please, some one tell me how to tell my parents a bout my problem and how its gotten me into a bigger situation.
I dont want to abort, i just want to be a better person for my kidssake

Hello Juana - Look for a local teenage pregnancy clinic or talk to your school guidance counselor to get proper health care for yourself and your unborn child; that's more important than anything at this point. It doesn't sound like you have multiple personalities--we all behave differently when in front of different peopel such as our families, our co-workers, our friends, etc. We all have multiple aspects to our personalities and as Shakespeare said, "The world is a stage." We act as we feel we should act in different situations. I'm not an expert and there may be more than you're telling us about here, but it doesn't sound like you suffer from Crabgras but more like you're a confused teenager who had unprotected sex. Seek help where I advised and take it one day at a time. Good luck, sweetheart.

Years ago when I was in elementary school a teacher jokingly said, "Always remember, when you look in a mirror someone's always looking back." That creeped me out at the time and it still does because sometimes when I look at myself in the mirror it really feels like someone different is staring back at me, someone mean. It's not every day that I feel this way, just a couple of times a year. But the strangeness of it just seems to be getting worse as I get older. I'll be 42 in May, and as I've grown older I've changed physically, as we all do. I'm quickly balding and graying at the same time, developing jowls. I've always struggled with my weight, but my pecs are starting to sag. I don't feel old but when I look in the mirror I see this old-looking guy staring back at me, which makes it feel even more like someone else is in an alternate, mirror reality checking me out the way I'm checking him out. I don't "believe" that's the case and I'm aware of reality. I don't know, maybe I have a mild case of Capgras syndrome. It's almost like when you hear your voice recorded and it sounds like someone completely different.

I am really surprised to read all these stories about a syndrom I never knew existed, but have a lot of experience with. By coincidence I found out that it has a name, and the things I have experienced are not unique.
I am sure that my mother had Capgras syndrom after reading the description on Wikipedia and elsewhere on the internet. I recognize so many things.
 I always felt alone and couldn't really explain to other people what was happening. It sounds funny somehow, if you tell somebody that your mother conciders you to be a fraudilous copy of yourself.
No neurologist has ever mentioned the name 'Capgras' to me, while she was gettting worse and worse. At first she admitted to concider her sister and brother in law to be 'fake' when she was told they both were diagnosed with terminal cancer at the same time. After a while I found out that she also saw her children as 'fakes' when she said to a nurse that she only wanted to see her daughter if she was real.
I recognize the fact that people with Capgras can sometimes act quite normal, and still have some sort of reality. My mother could talk to me as if I was her real daughter, but I was always suspicious that she saw me as a 'doppelganger'. Which was probablby true.
I have lived with this for many years and always felt I was the only one. I'm really happy to find out that this is not the case.
My mother has died 6 years ago because of this, but it still puzzles me. I really like to get in contact with people who know more about this. Maybe I can even help someone, or at least be supportive. Everyone that wants to tell their story can mail me on annacarolina1968@hotmail.com.
I don't pretent to have an answer, but am happy to be a shoulder to lean on.

Hello,
I am writing an article about Capgras and I was hoping someone here who has been diagnosed or has a relative/friend who has been diagnosed with it would be willing to talk to me about it.

Thanks,
Fiona

Hello,

Fiona if you still want to talk about my capgras syndrome you can email me at wnn356240@tiscali.nl

Fiona,
I have a relative with Lewy Body Disease. Capgras is an unfortunate symptom, along with dementia and Parkinsonian features. You may email me or LBDA.org for information.
Claudia

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Capgras Syndrome

so you reaLIZE most of the metal probelms that ppl have are cause the ways they have grown up and yet todays parents continue to shetlter their kids though it leads to dependent personality disorder and other problems those of you who are parents should think about this when upbringing kids.

One day at the age of 16, i had a kind of panic attack, I started looking strange at other people, when I saw someone, I only saw myself, almost like you're looking in a mirror, in my own eyes... That really stressed me out, 7 months everyday. It was strange but after a long time, you get used to it. My psychiatrist came to the conclusion that it had to do with border-line psychotic illnes. I got medicines, that I refused to take, because I didnt wana be hooked on pilss. Ive never had a test for " capgras syndrome" but I feel like that might be what I have or feel, can anyone explain it further to me?