Insane Vs Insane

You get a call from a friend, a really good friend, and they are asking you to volunteer for an experiment that they are about to carry out. You are in the psychology field and you are interested. You reply back to your friend to tell them that you are up for anything. You then go over to their office, along with some other people in the field, to talk about this “experiment”. You get the complete load down on what is going to happen, what you will do in certain situations like to pretend to swallow pills, and just about everything in between. Here’s the catch, this experiment will be in an institution where you have to present yourself to a psychiatric ward and tell them that you are hearing a voice in you head saying, “thud”. But you will …show more content…
One remarkable finding, was that the insane patients could actually tell that the fabricated patients and their symptoms were not legitimate, but they could see right through them. The legitimate patients believed that they were people who are checking up on the hospital. I think it is interesting to consider this finding because the psychiatrists who put the so-called insane patients in the institution couldn’t even tell much difference at all. Whereas the insane patients themselves could spot the lucid patients even though they didn’t have all the schooling that the psychiatrists were required to go …show more content…
I believe this falls into the category with Rosenhan’s experiment because the doctors misdiagnosed my friend. When I was in high school, in my psychology class, we were talking about the doctors misdiagnosing patients. Her story was as follows; she was experiencing a hard time with her family at home and it was causing her to be depressed. I know depression can pose a serious problem that doctors can help out with through therapy or medication. But what the doctor told her is that she had was PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome) and other various diagnosis. This wouldn’t have been a problem but, they prescribed her with medications that she didn’t really need to take. When she wasn’t feeling any relief from the supposed PTSD and other diagnosis, then she went and further investigated the symptoms she was experiencing and eventually figured out that the doctor had misdiagnosed her. I do remember vividly that when she was telling us about the multiple misdiagnosis from the doctors, she started to display anger and frustration. I would too if doctors told me I had something that I didn’t and had to take the medication anyways. Eventually, she stopped taking the medication and dealt with her