The Rosenhan experiment or Thud experiment was an experiment conducted to determine the validity of psychiatry. The participants feigned hallucinations to enter psychiatric hospitals but acted normally afterwards. They were diagnosed with psychiatric disorders and were given antipsychotics
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It’s far from an exact science because the mechanisms why drugs work is still hazy. Still. I would put money on a good psychiatrist in the right conditions finding gold brickers…then there’s extrapyramidal effects. Normal people wouldn’t respond to good doses of aps or get side effects which would become apparent if they were taking them.
It doesn’t prove anything other than diagnosing really is an art in my opinion.
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I have an illness. I had a psychotic break. I went loony beens for like 24 hours. I couldn’t sleep because my heart beat was all I could feel and I was anxious I would die because my heart wouldn’t work. I thought I HAD to sleep though because if I did I could transition into a new world and experience the after life.
I understand that for law enforcement its scary thinking that clever people can fake psychosis effectively negating some security measures and instead end up in mental hospitals…but its real.
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Like in the One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest movie
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I also think the standford experiment is interesting
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We are statistically 1%. Psychosis brings us together so not sure psychological experiments with the general population has any bearing on our lives. Yeah it’s cool to study these behaviors but they teach our worlds in abnormal psychology. It’s interesting but not sure what point you want to make here where we are marginalised and treated differently from most of the population anyways… 1%.
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MMPIv2 is pretty good for weeding out malingerers. They would get sorted out soon enough.
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No point just find entertaining
It’s hard to get treatment even if you have it I don’t see that people can lie now
My aunt works as an admin for referrals to secondary mental health care in my county
She said that only 15% of referrals from GPs actually get to see someone.
Most of them result in strongly worded letters back to the GP to tell them to deal with Anxiety and Depression as examples.
Despite this, there are still a lot of pressure on the teams
My case worker told me my old pdoc before covid had 40-50 patients, now the average is 300-400
I think my old pdoc was the last of the old guard here
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