Shaikh Anam, Lai Randy
Department of Psychiatry, St. John's Episcopal Hospital, 327 Beach 19th street, Far Rockaway, NY 11691, USA.
Case Rep Psychiatry. 2022 May 13;2022:9126521. doi: 10.1155/2022/9126521. eCollection 2022.
Folie à deux has been called double insanity or shared psychotic disorder. In this report, we describe the case of twin sisters who presented with identical delusions. Both sisters reported a "magic man" lived in their bodies and made them weak. Both underwent treatment with similar medications: the primary case with risperidone and the secondary case with paliperidone. The delusions of the primary case slowly abated with antipsychotics, whereas those of the secondary case completely resolved within a short duration after admission when the twins were separated in different hospital units.
感应性精神病曾被称为双重精神错乱或共享性精神障碍。在本报告中,我们描述了一对双胞胎姐妹出现相同妄想的病例。姐妹俩都称有一个“神奇男人”住在她们体内并使她们身体虚弱。两人都接受了类似药物的治疗:主病例使用利培酮,次病例使用帕利哌酮。主病例的妄想在使用抗精神病药物后逐渐减轻,而次病例的妄想在双胞胎被分入不同医院病房后,入院后短时间内就完全消失了。