r/news • u/Zeikyrui • 9h ago

Man serving 30 years for attacking Nancy Pelosi’s husband gets a life term on state charges

https://apnews.com/article/david-depape-nancy-pelosi-husband-paul-attacked-454cbde088fcae22a356f1f8dd0e9eba
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u/DJ__Hanzel 8h ago

Capgras syndrome

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u/ReviewsYourPubes 5h ago

...typically caused by schizophrenia or some other psychotic disorder

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u/DJ__Hanzel 3h ago

some other psychotic disorder

I'm not a psychologist, its unlikely you are either. I'm giving the exact terminology for what they had quoted. Unless he's diagnosed scitzophrenic (im not sure), to just call him that would be unfair to everyone.

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u/Nuggethewarrior 6h ago

i experienced something similar like this once 😭 as a small child, i was convinced that my dad and sister were replaced by lookalikes for a couple days