I just went through the behavioral center (I call em psyche wards), was there a week after being me too’d (complicated 6 month process). Moved across a few states back to my child hood home. Starting over.
But wanted to leave a comment here, basically when you go in there you diagnose yourself pretty much (that was my experience), tell them the hurts they slap medicine on it then you force a smile to try and get out sooner.
That place saved my life, but there’s nothing stopping people from going in there and just diagnosing themselves for drugs really and for the “I’m special” badge.
Many people feel the need to be “special” I don’t doubt some people do this.
Though as someone who was saved by one of these places, I’m a fan and see their need. There’s just a ton of grey area.
Idk how to get rid of that problem, At that point you need to believe the patient or at least pretend you do, for the sake of the delicate mental state of the patient
You can pretty much impersonate or claim any personality type, trait, disorder. Same for behaviour and mood. Some of those conditions may be useful but only if people are both honest and actually understand them. A lot of things are perfectly normal in moderate amounts and many disorders refer to things that would be normal but either are inappropriately stimulated or excessively, severely.
Lots of people take the political compass test. If I take it honestly I land where I land.
I also however know how to answer the questions to for example end up in any particular corner fairly accurately and most people have that ability. Try to gamify it instead and invert it so it's a game where you have to choose answers that are +Y or -Y.
Even just make it so the question is is this question... then multiple choice. Most people will guess the underlying scoring mechanism for questions pretty well.
I just went through the behavioral center (I call em psyche wards), was there a week after being me too’d (complicated 6 month process). Moved across a few states back to my child hood home. Starting over.
But wanted to leave a comment here, basically when you go in there you diagnose yourself pretty much (that was my experience), tell them the hurts they slap medicine on it then you force a smile to try and get out sooner.
That place saved my life, but there’s nothing stopping people from going in there and just diagnosing themselves for drugs really and for the “I’m special” badge.
Many people feel the need to be “special” I don’t doubt some people do this.
Though as someone who was saved by one of these places, I’m a fan and see their need. There’s just a ton of grey area.
Idk how to get rid of that problem, At that point you need to believe the patient or at least pretend you do, for the sake of the delicate mental state of the patient
You can pretty much impersonate or claim any personality type, trait, disorder. Same for behaviour and mood. Some of those conditions may be useful but only if people are both honest and actually understand them. A lot of things are perfectly normal in moderate amounts and many disorders refer to things that would be normal but either are inappropriately stimulated or excessively, severely.
Lots of people take the political compass test. If I take it honestly I land where I land.
I also however know how to answer the questions to for example end up in any particular corner fairly accurately and most people have that ability. Try to gamify it instead and invert it so it's a game where you have to choose answers that are +Y or -Y.
Even just make it so the question is is this question... then multiple choice. Most people will guess the underlying scoring mechanism for questions pretty well.