[RANT] My experience in a fucking mental hospital.

LOL @LiamTheHackermon

Welcome to my ignore list

I agree with you mashers...

@LiamTheHackermon assuming that was not a joke
http://gbatemp.net/blog-category/personal-thoughts.186/view-entries

As for getting sectioned for making a joke vs getting pinched for shouting fire in a theatre vs unjustifiably shouting bomb in an airport then I would argue the latter would be justified where the former might well be one of those silly overreactions.

My question though is WHY!

I would kill someone if i were to go to one

@mgrev No you wouldn't. Stop talking out of your ass.

@MsMidnight I'm sorry for you.
Enjoy your freedom, and be careful. I don't like anyone being stuck in any kind of mental hospital or similar stuff to it.
I was put in the ridge (crazy hospital to help insane people.)
Just because my older brother traumatized me with pranks and videos of aliens and ghosts.
Messed me up so badly that I became paranoid.
I didn't do anything. I've had hallucinations and sleep paralysis.
I took a picture after my brother summoning a spirit and that picture still horrifies me today.
I was in the ridge for almost 12 days. I missed most of my Christmas time..
I got out on the 22nd of December, 2010.
I didnt talk much for almost 2 months.
I have forgiven my brother. But he still hurts me by calling me insane and a "future serial killer".
I'll never kill anyone.
You aren't alone..

That sounds like you might have actually, or theoretically, benefited from it. From the things the OP said it sounded like it might have been an overreaction, though one has to be wary about the person subject to such things being the only one to characterise a situation.

Or if you prefer
Mental illness is a very real thing, and can be very serious in its effects
Help for it, including round the clock/institutional, has a demonstrable clinical benefit in many many many cases.
In an awful lot of cases people do get better, and may have no lasting effects at all similar to the time you had a cold when you were 7 having no lasting effects, other than for a few weeks you might not have been at your best. Other times people may well have things to contend with for the rest of their life, either every day or just from time to time, however it is not the only way and some seem to think it is -- the stigma is very real and you may well be furthering it.

Mental illness is a very real thing

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Not according to science, it isn't.
https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/mental-disorders-do-not-exist/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOScYBwMyAA
(inb4 you attack the source instead of the content).

I am very mad.

I drive all the way to CSU to play in a tournament, get stuck in traffic and lose against this retarded ass sheik. Down threw tech chase and wouldn't stop shino stalling I really cannot think straight right now. I offered to MM him for more than $20. Nope. I figured I would have made it out of pools if I knew how to fucking buffer roll. But he didn't give me the frames to do it. Bullshit, just straight up bullshit. Probably never will go to another tournament where gay ass sheiks go ever again.

This has definitely ruined my day.

Whoo Haloman800 playing the contrarian in a thread. I missed these. I also have to wonder if you are not playing some kind of long game devil's advocate with the amount of these you seem to go in for.

Source rather than content can be a valid means of setting about debating, hardly infallible but not an wholly invalid thing -- you spend 30 minutes debunking clueless cunts cited as sources and it is a reasonable denial of service attack in debate. Equally though any experiment by anybody can prove another invalid there are ones which have really stood the test of time, the existence of mental illness being one of those. At the same time the jonrappoport site mentions "vaccine injury" as a potential cause for something and "vaccine detox" as a treatment for said same thing (that being autism), that alone would probably be enough to cast doubt on the nous of the source -- don't care (much) if an astrophysicist does not care for evolution but if we are going to be debating neurochemistry and the like then that is an untenable position.
I would agree to a statement that the US practice of mental health treatment has some serious issues and overdiagnosis is perhaps bordering on endemic in many cases, youth approaches in particular being among those. I am also none too great a fan of some of the approaches taken with regards to drug development (for instance not so many people playing with glutamate for instance despite it being fairly important in neurochemistry). I am also up for a discussion on what might be aberration and what might be illness, yeah there is a societal component in that as well -- whether it is acceptable to drug your children up to get them through a boring school system, or indeed drug yourself up so you can just plough through a boring insurance job, is up for debate.
Likewise the brain is hugely complex, perhaps one of the most complex items we know of, with some fairly decent self correction mechanisms. Some chemical tests can be hard To that end talking and getting some things back to a baseline in a somewhat crude way might well be the best which can be done, similar to though I am sure doctors faced with the issue would dearly love to repair the bones, nerves and blood vessels if you get your leg nicely mangled it is beyond the capability of present knowledge and ability so instead it might be amputated.

So anyway.

Psychology exists. Know some of it and you can tell better stories, sell things better, promote certain behaviours, be more effective at certain types of arguing* and so on and so on. Some of it is learned, some of it is innate. Twin studies, culture studies and more for this one.
*the whole notion of a leading question for instance.

Neurochemistry exists. Alterations in it by external injury, tumours, strokes, some malformations and substances it uses by chemical (be it blocking, increasing levels far beyond) or other (perhaps food, perhaps sleep or water deprivation) tell us a lot. There have been enough humans getting into trouble for long enough now, and some unpleasantness along the way, that many of the broad strokes are known.

Atypical behaviour can also be induced. PTSD/combat stress reaction, some of the isolation stuff can also produce certain behaviours pretty reliably in a broad cross section of society. Some individuals, whether by nature or by nurture is possibly unknown for a given condition even though you might be able to test for a presence of such a thing without full induction/exposure, could well be immune to it.

The links seem to make a big deal of "the definitions [listed in generally accepted manuals in the trade] consist wholly of described behaviors" and "symptomatic behaviors are signs of underlying chemical imbalances or genetic aberrations, but again, they have no tests to back up this assertion".
Alzheimer's for instance is plenty visible on a MRI and used to confirm diagnosis
https://www.nia.nih.gov/espanol/alz...initiative-generates-promising-early-findings

I should also say that science is not a monolithic entity, it is but a process. Probably the best/most reliable means we have to figure out things about the world but still just a process by which to do it.