The following article refers to a position held in his Facebook profile psychiatrist Gentian CALA. According to his profile on LinkedIn, Çala has been serving as a psychiatrist at Pogradec General Hospital, an institution he has run since 2013. Çala has been invited several times to television studios to comment on mental health issues.
His analysis is called "The Sacrifice Case, Some Considerations" and you can find it below:
Gathering data from the media on the case of the Josifi family, you realize that we are dealing with a case of a mental illness called "Shared Delusional Disorder" in English or "Folie en famille" in French. ). Apparently we had a pathological belief which was passed on from one member to another, probably the mother must have been primary and influenced the girls, but it is possible that this happened to one of the girls and be induced in mother and sister. This is a disorder that most often occurs in females. "Occupied" by delusional belief, they undertook the act of self-sacrifice, which was fatal for one of the daughters and mother.
In terms of similarity, I can mention the case of the death of the Burari family in New Delhi, India, where 11 of its members (7 females and 4 males) committed ritualistic suicide in 2018. After investigations by the police it was discovered that this happened after death of the head of the family, where the youngest member had had the most difficulty in losing. He often saw his father in dreams and felt "possessed" by him. He even wrote in the notes that he could see and hear her. The family had been involved in occult rituals for many years, and in an attempt to meet the dead father, they had moved on to mass self-sacrifice. ”
Shënim.red. Anabel.al has verified the veracity of the paragraph above and it turns out that the Chundawat Family, from Burari, India, was a family of 11 members, 10 of whom were found addicted, while the family's grandmother was drowned. The bodies were found in July 2018, and police blamed the tragedy on "mass suicide due to joint psychosis." Psychologists determined that the cause of their death was "shared psychotic disorder."
"The case of the Josifi family presented some difficulties to be prevented. First of all, touching the three members of the family made it impossible to seek help from within the family, as is usually the case when a family member falls ill and is unable to understand the illness, and this is what members of the family do. family who are healthy. Isolation of the family not only aggravated their mental state, but also made it impossible for relatives to observe the situation. This is also influenced by some indifference or fading of community relations, by relatives, neighbors, friendships. Formalization or poor social relations are the cost of modernizing or individualizing our society.
Has the frequent attendance of religious sects played a role in their disorder and in the act of self-sacrifice?
I think the world is full of believers, people are free to believe what they want, just as there are charlatans and deceivers. Beliefs need to be careful to convey the right message clearly and unequivocally. They must emphasize that the value of life can no longer be exchanged for anything. Beliefs are responsible for caring for believers or seeking help in cases where something unusual is observed. Believers should also report on the irregularities they notice in their community. The state must have control over abuses or charlatans. Asking to blame a certain institution or religious doctrine for a certain drama seems generalizing to me and not at all real.
This unfortunate case should teach us that such acts may occur in the future. These people are not only killed by the disease, but also by our civic or institutional indifference. In my two decades of experience in Psychiatry, I have had the opportunity to see two cases of Folie a deux (Induced Delusional Disorder), where help has been provided. We hope we can prevent such events, then I can say that we have done what is right. "
Anabel.al has addressed comments on this case to some other specialists in the field of psychiatry and this article will be updated and / or followed by others in the following case if the mental health experts, contacted by the editorial office, have to other opinions on the case of the Josifi family and do not link their situation to the induced delusional disorder.
