Paris Syndrome...

According to a recent report from Reuters, some Japanese tourists need pyschological treatment after visiting Paris & dealing with the rude Parisians & unmet expectations. So far this year the Japanese Embassy has had to repatriate at least four visitors, although two of them were women who believed their hotel room was bugged & there was a plot against them. Now who hasn't felt that?
"A third of patients get better immediately, a third suffer relapses and the rest have psychoses," Yousef Mahmoudia, a psychologist at the Hotel-Dieu hospital, next to Notre Dame cathedral, told the newspaper Journal du Dimanche.The phenomenon, which the newspaper dubbed "Paris Syndrome", was first detailed in the psychiatric journal Nervure in 2004. Bernard Delage of Jeunes Japon, an association that helps Japanese families settle in France, said:

"In Japanese shops, the customer is king, whereas here assistants hardly look at them ... People using public transport all look stern, and handbag snatchers increase the ill feeling."

Japanese embassy official Yoshikatsu Aoyagi added previous cases involved a woman believed she was being attacked by microwaves & a man believed he was the French "Sun King", Louis XIV.