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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As someone who has suffered from depression and suicidal thoughts, I can confirm Jesus helped me, ik shocker I was formerly atheist myself.
So in other words, those psychiatrists didn't know what they were doin'.
Once someone tells you, "You're crazy," you start to believe it yourself.
Of course they labeled them as patients, that's how they MAKE $$$$
Incompetence and mental torture is the building block in the staple of this society. Purposely uneducating us, So we don't notice is the other part. 8 patients across 12 hospitals
The Bible warns for the deceiving #pharmakeia
Alot of psych are in the field bc they wanna understand their own brain. Dated one briefly who told me that’s why she did it. She was a bipolar alcoholic that purposely sleep deprived herself to induce mania 😂
The mental health system is designed to profit off of our illnesses. It is up to us to help each other
Psychiatry/psychology is 95% based on the knowledge provided to the “doctor” by the last person to be believed- the patient. It’s quackery.
It proves how when murderers try to say they did it because they’re insane are probably lying. 🥺
Wow
Psychology as it stands currently is massively psuedoscience driven.
That's why in most places you don't need any kind of degree be a therapist. You can just start a business and mess with people's heads all you want. When you get outed, move cities and do it again. An infinite amount of times.
It's more often than not, a VERY subjective practice.
Modern psychology is run by sociopaths
From what I've seen .. yeah, shut these aholes down. Total bs, no science involved at all.
Reading these comments shows me that therapists, and psych clinicians don't know crap.
The docs and staffs were the real imposters, which is pretty insane.
These cases are prime examples of "the power of suggestion"
Then, we are shocked that Italy has the Basaglia law
So much of the medical industry is all about making money, not healing people.
Woooow
The plot twist twist
Being stuck in a psych ward is my nightmare
Such a huggggeee waste of time
I believe it
No one is normal, we're all mad.
Yep, this is one of the reasons I avoid doctors. There's a few more
Insane asylums, Tartaria, great reset
I'm not surprised. For the most part the mental health field is a scam!!!
Bro have me more knowledge than my whole life of existence 😂
The over diagnosing and medicating American citizens is insane
This is still happening today. It's terrifying.
Why is it always Stanford doing these crazy ass studies😂
Doctors only see sick people. Police only see criminals.
And now you’ve got the insane just walking freely, without the meds they dearly need, and instead of calling them insane we call them activists
Hence One flew over the cuckoo's nest. Anyway, this is a perfect example of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
As I recall, the other patience spotted them right away and knew they didn't belong there.
I don't think asylums are meant to cure people and I think people make this forgivable mistake as did I. Instead I believe asylums were meant to keep "burdens" people institutionalized for the sake of a prosperous and functioning society. Whether that actually helps in anyway is left for debate.
This is literally stonehurst asylum: Eliza Graves 😂
I think that every person had some kind of mental illness or should I say struggle
Modern medicines are fake too
Psychiatrists are fake proof
I have schizoeffective disorder bipolar type, adhd, cptsd and anxiety. I’ve been seeing a psychiatrist since I was about 9/10 years old. I consistently take my meds yet I was in psychosis for an entire year and my medical professional didn’t catch it until I moved to nyc running from my hallucinations. I guess it’s easy to miss if someone looks normal. The stories I had were not normal though. The only people I’m hurting are myself and my kids from not being stable. I’d never hurt anyone. I’m terrified of people actually.
Bruh, I am a surgeon!
The most scary thing is that these people may have gone into the asylum pretending to be insane and after being there long enough they could become insane. This can happen faster than you would think.
This just proves how the doctors are labeling people as mentally ill simply because they profit off this until that person dies.
I have seen this happen first hand. I had a friend in collage who had a bad night of drinking landing her in the phyc ward for 72 hours. By the time she returned to school three days later she believed she had bipolar disorder, manic depression, borderline personality disorder and schizophrenia. Clearly this is absurd as you can't have all these disorders as some contridict oneanother
basically no one knows shit
Many times, Doctors themselves are the ones that need help.
Psychiatry is complete quackery
😂