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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    10 hours 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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      6 hours ago

      I remember it being quite good, just that it was the first robin Williams movie I saw that wasn’t a comedy and where he wasn’t a crazy jumpy fun guy, it was jarring for me the first time I saw it.

      I would recommend it though, it was a good movie