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To be honest these seem like crazy people drawn to a movement that would have them and allow them to rise to prominence, rather than a movement creating crazy p
by EA-3167 2y ago
To be honest these seem like crazy people drawn to a movement that would have them and allow them to rise to prominence, rather than a movement creating crazy people.
- snailmailstare 2y agoI think many psychiatrists view split personality disorder as a largely nonexistent condition arising artificially from charlatan psychotherapists. It seems quite possible to me that these people drove themselves mad and each other to suicide with these experiments (where they expected to evoke a split personality they had already begun to define). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_(Schreiber_book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_(Schreiber_book)
- EA-3167 2y agoSure this "Unihemispheric sleep" stuff cannot have helped any pre-existing issues, but I think we shouldn't discount the existence of those issues which predate what amounts to cult indoctrination.
- nullc 2y agoThe human mind is quite malleable. You can make yourself mentally ill, or be made mentally ill by the people around you. This fact seems to be under-acknowledged because there is a slippery slope to blaming the victims. But just because you might have gotten yourself into something that doesn't mean you can get yourself out of it. I'm skeptical of people who think they wouldn't be vulnerable. But even if some are not, -- some are, and you can start with the seeds of a little crazy and heal it through grounded thinking and healthy practices, or you can blow it wide open with crazed thinking, casual psychedelic use, and abusive cult practices.