His character as a photo developer exhibited a creepy mental illness. What is the mental illness called when a lonely person fixates on certain people & becomes obsessed with them in unhealthy uncomfortable creepy ways?

  • underreacting@literature.cafe
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    18 days ago

    Intimacy-seeking stalkers often have delusional disorders involving erotomanic delusions.

    I haven’t seen the film, but it sounds like a platonic version of erotomania, or a non-specific delusional disorder.

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      17 days ago

      Okay thank you, this one might describe me. Except I don’t stalk because when I start to feel that weird creepy feeling like I want to be in their lives (but I have the self-awareness to realize that I do not belong in their lives) I do the opposite of stalking. I remove myself.