The Psychology Experiment That Fooled Doctors 👨🏻⚕️
Back in the 1970s, a group of totally sane people checked themselves into insane asylums just to see if doctors could spot they were faking.
But the result exposed something shocking about psychiatry.
You see, eight volunteers claimed heard a voice in their head saying words like “Thud”, “Empty”, or “Hollow”.
That was enough to get them admitted to the asylum. There, the real test began.
Once inside they acted totally normal. No symptoms, nothing. But doctors still labeled each each fake patient with severe mental illnesses.
Some were stuck inside for more than 50 days.
The wildest part is that across 12 hospitals, not a one staff member realized they were imposters.
Stanford published the results, it rocked the entire psychiatric field.
One hospital fought back, saying “Send us all your fakes, we’ll catch them”.
Over the next three months, they flagged 41 as frauds and suspected 42 more.
But in the end, Stanford revealed the twist: they hadn’t sent a single fake patient at all.
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I don't understand
I was a victum too.You can be totallyn sane and they will keep you with an arbitrary label. helplessly imprisioned against your will. Helplessness acounts for 30 to 40% of inmates. Inocent people suffer 10 times being traped.A Nightmare you cant escape. The confinement is the cause of constant stress. All caused by artificial envionmental stress!!!!!
There is no direct test to measure level of neurotransmitter or chemical imbalance, or to measure production-metabolisam of these chemicals , or let say even MRI/CT scan only show part of brain not functioning well (but it so expensive) through image, but still cannot provide prescise info.
It has no direct test which can confirm & show the level of intensity of disorders..
Psychiatric only prescribe meds by asking questions & psychological test. !
While other disease like diabetes, disease of virus ,bacteria or disorder through genes can be measured & confirm by tests.
That's why many patients even couldn't figure out actually at what stage they are & many patients even tell they're not getting better even by consuming various types of meds ! Some keep suffering by supposing that it's normal condition !
The worse part of these disorders is, There is no direct test which can expose exact what part of brain & what actually is fault & neurotransmitters isn't functioning well ! 😢
Its all about MONEY, MONEY, MONEY….Thats what they make by keeping them in there. 😢
Yea, this is why I don't trust psychiatry or therapy anymore, I either deal with my problems on my own or….not.
The mental health field is probably one of the most challenging for everyone. Yes, there are mentally ill (MI) people. How do we measure success of treatment? When a tumor in a cancer patient goes away, we can measure that. When When we x-ray a broken bone we can see that. How do we measure MI. There's plenty of people running around that haven't learned to regulate their emotions, how do we measure that, until they explode in situations. How do we measure sociopaths & narcissists? Go online and everyone has a MI or they can diagnose others with these conditions, even though they have an English Lit degree. Much of the medical treatment guidelines were written 125 years ago. If it's within the last 20 years, there's so much political bias in the work, that MI people are labeled as normal. Normal people are told to ignore their MI, so as to not hurt their feelings. When MI people break the law, they are put into general population in prisons and preyed upon by other inmates, never getting any help and later released back out onto the streets with the added trauma of their time in prison. Don't even get me started on how the internet has damaged so many people who now lack any social skills to function in regular society. The mental health field needs a complete makeover, free of political or religious ideology and measurable results.
That's like the biggest plot twist
And now we have mentally ill and unstable people roaming the streets while insane asylums and sanitariums are closed.
mental disorder or simple psychological problems are very hard to understand , sometimes not even the very person with those problems knows how she/he will react in certain circumstances
This sounds like a husband created this hospital to get rid of- mean to admit his wife, and possibly others.
Each patient is extra $$$$ income money from the government. To keep the program running.
All comes down to money.
It would be insane to give up a patient that bring in $$$$
Susannah Calahan wrote "The Great Pretender " in 2019. It shows the controversy with David Rosenhan who wrote this study.
So nobody realizes this only happens in America annnd it's only about $? Man we're all psych labrats in America 😅😭
Jfc
Stanford 🤝 unethical psych experiments 😭😭
Make asylum's great again. We need these things. We need asylums. Put the creator of this YouTube short in one of these asylums as well❤
This is interesting I learned this in psychology it's crazy just goes to show you. Crazy days back then w asylums lobotomy
So mental illness is just based on opinions and conformity.
One of the biggest problems? That absolutely nothing changed.
What the heck. Mind fuck anyone!
Now they would just give them a handful of antipsychotic meds, a bottle of Thunderbird and send them off to live on the streets.
Some people go on live tv sometimes and connect to spirit and will mostly tell who they see and what message they have for a client. Isn't it part of being insane
Sometimes the patients give true account of things that they went through like being stalked
Modern western medicine and psychiatric care is bogus BS. Its all for profit.
Psychiatry is a fraud
Should have just told the hospitals. We'll be sending fakes for you to identify. Check in with you in 20 years. Maybe they would have done their jobs forever
I’ve always known that psychiatrists are the real wackos 🤔
The only real mental illnesses that need treatment are those which those near fatal like schizo, bipolar which make you hallucinate and go crazy. But most of the people today think they have a mental illness just because they feel sad, anxious, lonely or depressed. It's not a mental disease it's just a state of mind, a weak mind. Then the doctors would prescribe them antidps and adderall and then they get addicted to it like drugs.
The answer is simple. They make MONEY from each patient. They see problems where they dont exist and keep their jobs.
ahahah medical industry exposed these days they wouldnt dare to do this
Ohhy gawwdd