Just needed to be heard for a little while

jobbingmusician

Yep! This was a standard set text when I did my psychology degree, back in the eighties. And I don't think diagnosis has improved much since! :mad:

Errata

The experiment took place 40 years ago in America and it's validity and credibility have been questioned ever since.
What is believed to have happened then really has no bearing in what happens in the UK today, something I'm pretty sure Rosenham himself would agree with.
Some American states still have on their statute book the right to sterilise citizens against their will.

DUKE

dibuzz wrote: »

Yes it is

Oh Good ol' Lax! I've won many a comp thanks to her posts, I won my Florida hol with her too :j

Just reading about the ecigs that y'all appear to be on, not wanting to preach but what about trying the Nicorette inhalators? You can puff on them like a fag & I stopped smoking more than 5 years ago with these!

jobbingmusician

It's well validated in this country, though, that patients get different diagnoses from different psychiatrists. And recovery rates from severe mental illness are still lamentably low in this country, which is increasingly dedicated to treating people with medication rather than social interventions. (Partly, I believe, under the assumption that medical interventions are cheaper. But the pharma companies are such ripoff merchants that this isn't necessarily true!!!) Hence the rise of CLINICAL commissioning groups - I spend my life trying to remind them about social interventions for MH.

/rant mode off.

aneres

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

Amazing! (Hello aneres!)

Downside of e-cig - I am now craving ice cream!

Hagen Daz is on Rollback at Asda for £2 a tub. :drool:

Pyxis

aneres wrote: »

Hagen Daz is on Rollback at Asda for £2 a tub. :drool:

The panacea for all ills! Yum!

elsien

I vaguely remember a lecturer saying once that many of the older experiments were carried out in colleges with students as subjects. Therefore the results were valid within a specific subset of the population, not the population at large.
How much has changed since in terms of making things more representative, I don't know. Although I do know that it's much harder to get things past ethics committees. Can you imagine the reaction to Milgram's electric shock experiment if someone suggested it nowadays? For a start the no-win no-fee trauma solicitors would be queuing up at the door. :rotfl:

Had a lovely day out today visiting a castle and grounds, despite taking Gitdog along to broaden his horizons. It's a castle where well-behaved dogs are allowed inside. I looked at Gitdog, I looked at the suits of armour, and decided on balance possibly not.

Waves_and_Smiles

Good morning all!

Humorous start to the day- I picked up my lighter and almost lit the end of my e-cig..

Thank you for the ice cream tip, I shall get some! My e-cig is similar to the inhaler, Duke. Just nicotine and water vapour. I have been 24 hours without a real cig so far and haven't become psychotic and am not craving. Crossing everything...

On the subject of psychological experiments,the Little Albert (or it could be Little Peter) experiment always made me scratch my head. They are fine to look up unless you have a fluffy thing phobia. They made a child afraid of fluffy things like rats and bunnies to show how easily phobias could be created. In one of the above they reversed it, in the other there is no record of them doing so! I have always had vision of the poor child being terrified of anything fluffy for life!

And now I am laughing at the thought of GitDog jumping proudly in a pile of collapsed armour.

lostinrates

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Had a lovely day out today visiting a castle and grounds, despite taking Gitdog along to broaden his horizons. It's a castle where well-behaved dogs are allowed inside. I looked at Gitdog, I looked at the suits of armour, and decided on balance possibly not.

Even well behaved dogs have their day. We used to walk ( out side) an nt location. Dogs are allowed off lead ( its well known as a ace where dogs are allowed to run their hearts out and horses are taken up for a gallop) Its a tower, and the dogs had never showed any interest in it. One day for no reason I could see they went straight in it ......and all the way to the top. Luckily it went down well with every one. Apart from me. Most people want there photos taken with the big dogs ( there were either two or three of them in those days)

Pyxis

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