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| Contribution title | 3173 - Football delusion – two clinical cases |
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| Contribution code | PS03-75 (P) |
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Objectives Describe the cases of two 17 years old patients presenting with a first psychotic episode in which football was central to their delusional beliefs. Methods The inpatient clinic files were reviewed and information was extracted. Discussion These patients were admitted with a gap of around five months in the inpatient clinic and after the intervention of the authorities that, after a short period under custody, conducted them to the child and adolescent psychiatric emergency room from where they were admitted. The two patients shared many common features. First the fact that they were both Sporting Clube de Portugal (SCP) supporters and their epiphanic moment corresponded to an eye blink sawn in Television. In one of the cases from a football player, Ricardo Quaresma, and in the other one from the polemical SCP President Bruno de Carvalho. Secondly, apart from their paranoid delusional beliefs the fact that they both thought they could play football better than Cristiano Ronaldo. One of the patient referred that people related to Sport Lisboa e Benfica (SLB) wanted to harm him because he had showed off in the SLB national championship win celebrations with a SCP jersey wear under his jacket and the other one referred that It was the SCP president who wanted to harm him since he refused to became the couch of the team that would, under his command, achieve untold success. Conclusions Football has become the main global mass entertainment phenomena of the contemporary European society. It´s therefore not surprising, in the year that the Portuguese Football had Its most glorious moment with the Euro Cup victory, that the game took part in the delusional beliefs of two young people presenting their first psychotic episode. With the description of these two cases we intend to put the emphasis on the relation between socio-cultural features and the content of the delusional beliefs. |