A dude faked schizophrenia to prove that the asylums were a joke

oh that's it

yeah I've heard of it

It doesn't help that "insane" is just a legal term, not a medical concept

TL;dr they were

Modern pscyhology is pretty much a pseudo-science like astrology

It has it uses but due to the subjetive Nature of the mind most people just project their belief into patients

from a philosophical standpoint all humans are insane to varying degrees since we're all incapable of actually perceiving objective reality

That’s why they decided trans is completely normal but being masculine isn’t

we just stuck a line in the mud where insane becomes too insane, then slide that line further other to encompass more people

Most of the scientific community don't take psychology serious

@ThreeOfOne I agree

I only take evolutionary psychology seriously

Out of curiosity, has anyone here actually been in a psychiatric ward?

Nope @mikeflarkin

Evolutionary psychology is pseudoscience, too.

nope I haven't

I tell u cause most of my colleagues joke about them all the time

I have.

Really for what reason

he's a patient

I have also

I spent a week in one about four years ago. Checked myself in because I was at the lowest point I had ever been in my life.

But as a doctor

Straight up, it helped. A lot.

@devpav I think if you're not looking at human psychology through the context of evolution then you're never going to come to any meaningful conclusions on anything

I needed to take some samples for a patient that was suffering from hepatitis

Well I went to a psychiatrist but never at a psychiatric ward

*Psychiatry* is hard science. Psychology is pseudoscience.

I don't know how much it helped the others that were in with me, but I know for a lot of them it wasn't their first visit.

Poor guy was yellow as a banana

Obamanana

Simpsons character yellow?

A little less but almost

I do view human behavior in the context of evolutionary biology, but evolutionary psychology is rife with nonsensical just-so stories.

The antidepressants they gave me didn't really do what they were supposed to, still working on those, but how they taught me to cope with stress still helps.

I think evolutionary psychology have it's merits

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-ilhan-omar-plea-for-lenient-sentences-for-men-accused-of-trying-to-join-isis-resurface

I've had my interactions with psychotherapists and psychiatrists though, neither has helped me much because it doesn't seem like the field of psychology knows how to help men

@mikeflarkin people not to talk about their problems that’s the only healthy way to get rid of them