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Killer Psyche

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The Social Contagion of Mental Illness

This disorder occurs when a healthy person begins to take on the delusions of someone who has a psychotic disorder. Usually for this to happen, those two people have to be very close. This is so rare that in my 10 years in clinical psychiatry, I only saw it once.

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