Paris Syndrome

Pity the poor Japanese who make the mistake of traveling to Paris (from Special Report):

And some Japanese tourists who go to Paris are so shocked by the unfriendly Parisians and scruffy streets that they need psychological counseling. A French newspaper says about a dozen a year are driven to seek help.

A psychologist says a third get better immediately, a third suffer relapses, and the rest have psychoses. Extreme examples include two women who believed their hotel room was bugged and there was a plot against them, a woman who thought she was being attacked by microwaves, and a man who became convinced he was really Louis XIV.

The phenomenon is called "Paris Syndrome" and was first detailed in a French psychiatric journal two years ago.

If you want a good laugh, follow this link and watch Brit Hume try and deliver this report. He was cracking up all the way through it.