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[Jim @retiredgfd102]

@BeatinTheBookie This is delicious

[Jim @retiredgfd102]

@Mr_Husky1 Interesting, terrifying but interesting

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

In 1973, eight perfectly healthy people walked into different psychiatric hospitals across the United States. They were not ill. Yet no one inside those walls was able to see it.
It was an experiment. One of the most disturbing experiments in the history of psychiatry. Designed by psychologist David Rosenhan, it began with a simple yet unsettling question: is it really possible to reliably distinguish mental health from mental illness?
To find out, Rosenhan recruited eight pseudopatients. They were ordinary people: a painter, a housewife, a pediatrician, a graduate student. They lied about only one thing—they claimed to hear voices. Nothing more. No bizarre behavior, no crises, just three words heard in their minds: “empty,” “hollow,” “thud.”
All of them were admitted. And immediately afterward, they stopped pretending. They behaved normally. They cooperated. They asked to be discharged. It wasn’t possible.
The staff no longer saw people, but diagnoses. Every action was reinterpreted through the lens of illness: writing notes? Obsessive behavior. Standing in the hallway? Pathological attention-seeking. Being polite? Controlled behavior consistent with the disorder.
Seven of them were labeled schizophrenic. One was diagnosed as manic-depressive. Not a single one was recognized as healthy. Not one.
But the real patients noticed. Some approached and whispered, “You’re not like the others. You don’t belong here.” They saw what the experts could not recognize.
The average length of hospitalization was 19 days. One person remained hospitalized for 52 days. Each passing day confirmed the same truth: the label was more powerful than reality.
When Rosenhan published his study—On Being Sane in Insane Places—it caused an earthquake. The psychiatric community erupted in outrage. One hospital challenged Rosenhan to send new pseudopatients, confident they would expose them. He accepted. In the following months, the hospital identified 41 supposed impostors. But Rosenhan had sent no one. No one at all.
The truth was now undeniable: diagnoses were not always based on facts, but on context. Once labeled, a person became a prisoner of that narrative. Even if they were sane. Even if they protested the truth.
This experiment shattered blind trust in clinical labels. It led to major reforms in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. But above all, it left a haunting and still relevant lesson:
Perception can distort reality more than madness itself.
And often, the most dangerous illusion is not that of those considered insane, but of those who believe they are always right.
Eight healthy people entered psychiatric hospitals in 1973. They came out carrying a truth the world could no longer ignore.

[John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich]

If the left wants solar panels, put them on top of every single parking lot in the state and leave the farms alone! I wouldn't mind parking in the shade, and you can have your unreliable energy source without wrecking all the prime farmland. Or does that make TOO much sense?

[Jim @retiredgfd102]

@MidwestWeathe_r It was capped but then a federal judge ordered a stay, stating that trump has no authority to intervene in the judges for weather.

[Jim @retiredgfd102]

@Tacticalfronts Where is paint?

[Jim @retiredgfd102]

@SaveUSAKitty @dbongino @SilverlochMedia Humm, someone can get arrested, wow who’ed of thought.

[Jim @retiredgfd102]

@GeraldoRivera Encouraging military to disobey orders is treasonous and seditious.

[Jim @retiredgfd102]

@NFL_DovKleiman It’s Miami, they don’t have to study.

[Jim @retiredgfd102]

@CBSEveningNews Riiiiight

[Jim @retiredgfd102]

@NutellaUSA 🎁

[Jim @retiredgfd102]

@earthcurated

[Jim @retiredgfd102]

@earthcurated

[Walter Curt @wcdispatch]

🚨NEW: Pollster Mark Mitchell Sends A Message To The Republican Party—WAKE UP!

“What happens is, when Trump wins an election, he convinces a higher proportion of the under 40 votes to turn it out for him than we've ever seen before, all the Republicans say, Oh, look at us. We're so great. We just, you know, we won the youth vote because Republicans are great. It's like, no, these people are not going to people are not conservative, and they hate you. They only voted for Trump to give him a chance of fixing America, and you're screwing it up.”

This is EXACTLY right.

It amazes me that this still hasn’t been realized by the establishment Republicans at all, the people DID NOT VOTE FOR YOU.

They voted for President Trump, and if you don’t get something done and get it done NOW we are going to lose the midterms.

If the Republicans do not get in gear and actually get the agenda moving, get some points on the scoreboard, President Trump is going to be impeached.

We have 6 months to reverse course and start the push for the midterms.

If we don’t the Democrats will retake the house, impeach the president and hamstring the rest of the presidency.

That’s a fact, listen to Mark. 🇺🇸

[Jim @retiredgfd102]

@wcdispatch 100%

[Michele Tafoya @Michele_Tafoya]

Understand that the democrat caucus gave permission to the number of Senators needed to reach the bare minimum of 60.

And those democrat senators who voted with Republicans also gave permission to the rest of their party to publicly chastise them and act angry.

[Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful @kevinolearytv]

Everyone loves the idea of a free check, especially in a tough economy. But here’s the truth, and it’s not always popular. Sending out $2000 checks funded by tariffs might feel good in the moment, but it does nothing to fix the core problem. It risks pushing inflation even higher, and inflation is the silent tax that punishes every American, especially the ones who can least afford it.

If we really want to help families, we have to strengthen the foundation of the economy, not weaken it. Investors like myself would much rather see that money go toward reducing the national deficit. That’s how you lower mortgage rates, stabilize the bond market, and protect the long term strength of the U.S. dollar. Quick band-aids feel good. Real fiscal discipline keeps the country strong.

[Jim @retiredgfd102]

@kevinolearytv Agreed!

[White Sox Charities @soxcharities]

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[Jim @retiredgfd102]

@erinmaguire Riiiiight