# Jodi Foster and President Reagan **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 25, 2017, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodi-foster-and-president-reagan/794637 "2017-08-25T11:29:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2017, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodi-foster-and-president-reagan/794637/21 "2017-08-26T00:34:43Z")
I once knew someone who described an incidence of psychosis that happened when she had to be suddenly taken off of a steroid medication. The doctors knew that psychosis was a possibility when going cold turkey, so she was hospitalized for observation for a couple of days. Afterwards, she said that if she had seen a helicopter land in her room, she wouldn’t have thought “how can a helicopter land there - there are four floors of hospital above me?”, she’d have thought “so that’s how the mafia are delivering the illegal drugs.” It’s not just hallucinations or odd thoughts suddenly hitting the mind, it’s also disordered thinking. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2017, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodi-foster-and-president-reagan/794637/22 "2017-08-26T03:02:53Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Nice link. I’m familiar with the displayed symptoms of the disorder, but wasn’t familiar with the term. (One of the most famous, I think, cases being the woman who first went after David Letterman, then Story Musgrave, then a train.) Ditto. Thanks to **Velocity**. I got to know the behavior real well, but didn’t know what the shrinks call it. I do know what the protective details call it: job security. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodi-foster-and-president-reagan/794637/23 "2017-08-27T14:12:58Z")
Another term used is [Erotomania](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotomania) or erotic paranoia, where the deluded person believes that another person is secretly in love with the deluded individual, but just needs help to break through the family and over-protective security types like **LSLGuy** :p, who are blocking contact. In Canada, one of the best examples was Robert Keiling, a Saskatchewan farmer who was convinced Anne Murray was in love with him. He tried to make contact with her for over 30 years until his death, despite stays in mental hospitals and five years of Her Majesty’s hospitality. [Doctor’s obsession with Shania Twain harkens back to farmer who stalked Anne Murray](https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2011/07/07/doctors_obsession_with_shania_twain_harkens_back_to_farmer_who_stalked_anne_murray.html) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodi-foster-and-president-reagan/794637/24 "2017-08-27T23:28:16Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I don’t think there was any specific political motivation to the assassination attempt. Hinckley just thought that shooting the President (any President) would make him famous and get Jodie Foster to notice his existence. Once she noticed him, she would fall for all his wonderful attributes. And presumably be willing to overlook the whole shooting the President thing. I was in my 20s when the assassination attempt occurred and remember it very well. The above is exactly it. ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodi-foster-and-president-reagan/794637/25 "2017-08-28T00:42:19Z")
> [@drewder](#): > > Well he’s out now so… I guess they are free to get together. LoL He would have even less chance than i at dating Jodi Faster She doesn’t like men, not in a dating way. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodi-foster-and-president-reagan/794637/26 "2017-08-28T00:55:36Z")
> [@drewder](#): > > Well he’s out now so… I guess they are free to get together. Maybe someone could give him a map to Chump Tower. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodi-foster-and-president-reagan/794637/27 "2017-08-28T02:25:56Z")
I thought it was _Taxi Driver._ (The movie) ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodi-foster-and-president-reagan/794637/28 "2017-08-28T09:06:33Z")
> [@drewder](#): > > See I’d think she’d lose respect for him since Reagan failed to actually kill die. After Hinckley had been in prison for a few years, he supposedly had a correspondence relationship with a woman who was a convicted murderer. Jay Leno predicted it wouldn’t work out: “It creates a tension when a woman’s more successful in her career than her husband is”. ---
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodi-foster-and-president-reagan/794637/29 "2017-08-28T13:55:10Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > No, I don’t actually play the ukulele. I could have run back to my room and got my tuba, but that would have made it hard to sing. Coulda tried some tuba/Pétomane fusion. ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodi-foster-and-president-reagan/794637/30 "2017-08-28T14:21:19Z")
> [@Weisshund](#): > > LoL > He would have even less chance than i at dating Jodi Faster > She doesn’t like men, not in a dating way. Not sure such distinctions are meaningful when you consider that lesbians are more likely to get pregnant than straights. [http://www.dailywire.com/news/19470/born-way-lesbians-having-way-more-babies-hetero-amanda-prestigiacomo](http://www.dailywire.com/news/19470/born-way-lesbians-having-way-more-babies-hetero-amanda-prestigiacomo) Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jodi-foster-and-president-reagan/794637.md?page=1)