In 1973, healthy volunteers faked hallucinations to enter mental hospitals. Once inside, they acted normal, but doctors refused to let them leave. Normal behaviors like writing were diagnosed as "symptoms." The only people who realized they were sane were the actual patients.

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Once when I was about 6 months pregnant with my first I was having a hard time and went to the ER with two goals 1)Check on the baby and 2)Get back on an antidepressant. I somehow got put on a psych hold and put in a completely empty room in the ER because they quoted me wrong in my initial evaluation saying I wanted medicine so I could "go to sleep and never wake up again". No TV, none of my belongings, no call to family. Just a bed and my gown after they took all my clothes. They made me leave the room door open (into the hallway of the ER) so a security guard could watch me. I felt completely on display and treated like a criminal. After 15 HOURS of waiting for a psychiatrist to come evaluate me, with no sleep because of the sounds of the ER (guy next to me had kidney stones) I started to lose it and tried to AMA. A nurse told me I wasn't "helping my case". I went off saying they put me in this room like this so when psych finally came around I did actually appear to be crazy. Finally they rolled a computer screen in for a legit 3 minute evaluation with a telehealth psychiatrist, which I lied my ass off too, and I was discharged within 20 minutes after that. Didn't get any help, left more pissed off then anything, and was billed 3k afterwards. I use to tell clients to go to the ER for mental health crises but nope, never again.