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Article: Do you suffer from Celebrity Worship Syndrome?; Psychologists say a third of Britons are obsessed by someone famous.
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- Daily Mail (London)
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- April 14, 2003
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Byline: JAMES CHAPMAN
DO you wake up thinking of Geri Halliwell? Or wonder what Brad Pitt is eating for breakfast?
If so, you could be one of a startling number of Britons suffering from a newlyidentified psychological condition: Celebrity Worship Syndrome (CWS).
One in three people is so obsessed with someone in the public eye that he or she is a sufferer, say psychologists.
And one in four is so taken with their idol that the obsession affects their daily life.
Psychologists at the University of Leicester, who used a celebrity worship scale to rate the problems, found that 36 per cent of people suffered from some form of ...