Folie Deux facts
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Ursula and Sabina Eriksson, two twin sisters who experienced shared insanity (folie á deux) and ran through motorway traffic in a series of bizarre events
In 1910, two French academics claimed to have travelled back in time at the Palace of Versailles. They describe seeing Marie Antoinette and others. Explanations for this range from them "gatecrashing a gay fancy dress party" to a "lesbian folie à deux between the two women".
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There is such thing as 'folie a deux'( madness in pairs), formally known as shared paranoia disorder.
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about folie à deux (or "shared psychosis"), a rare psychiatric disorder in which delusional beliefs are transmitted from one individual to another. The link attached is about two identical twins that suffered from the disorder.
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Folie á deux (or shared psychosis), a mental condition in twins, that can sit dormant for years but will make the twins completely psychotic when they are in each others company. When they are separated the psychosis completely disappears.
