green-217:

did-you-kno:

In a 1970s experiment, a Stanford
psychologist and 7 other mentally
healthy participants got themselves
admitted to 12 different psychiatric
hospitals across the US by pretending
to hear voices. Once inside, they began
acting normally, but all 12 hospitals
diagnosed each of them with disorders,
forced them to take drugs, and required
them all to admit they had a disease
before they could be released. Source Source 2

This was the study ‘being sane in insane places’ by David Rosenhan. The purpose of the study was to determine whether or not the staff of asylums could truly determine a person’s sanity after being admitted.

Rosenhan ans his colleagues did not pretend to hear voices, they pretended to hear a ‘hollow thud’- something with no basis in psychology. From the get go they were offering the doctors and nurses a chance to deny them entry, but despite the fact that the thing they were faking wasn’t even a real symptom, they were all admitted.

That very day, the moment of their admission, they went back to acting normal. They went about their day as normally as possible, and waited to see if the staff of each hospital they were in would notice. They stopped reporting hearing the noise that got them admitted.

The staff never noticed.

Some of the patients did.

Despite this, all of them were eventually released, but none were declared sane on release. Some were in the hospital for 2 weeks, one remained for over 50 days.

What the study proved was that it became impossible to establish sane from insane in the setting of a mental hospital. To retest, after Rosenhan came forward with his findings, he told asylums all over the nation that they’d be doing the experiment again, but with more participants this time. After a certain period, he would ask the head doctors of the ‘targeted’ asylums which patients they believed were faking it.

All of the hospitals reported at least one person.

No one was actually sent in.

This reiterated the original claim, proving for all that the perception of sanity is reliant on location and societal standards.

yesterdaysprint:

Lincoln Journal Star, Nebraska, June 28, 1934

Good for her

some things i’ve learned about adulthood that no one warns you about

mybuckystar:

you will in fact continue to have acne past the age of twenty

you will eventually hit a point where you start to feel icky inside if you go too long without eating some sort of vegetables

depending on your current level of athleticism/physical activity as well as the kind of activities you did as a kid/teenager, your joints may start acting whack in your twenties, despite what everyone says about that not happening until middle age

eventually you will reach a point where you wonder how you were able to stay up until 3am nearly every night and be perfectly fine the next day (and this moment will come much younger than you expect)

it is much harder to meet new people after you’re done with school than sitcoms would have you believe

don’t let society tell you shit: it is perfectly acceptable to live with your parents after you graduate, there’s no need to be broke and miserable just so you can have some misguided attempt at independence straight out of school

bunjywunjy:

sourmints-patch:

ridiculousbirdfaces:

Photo by Greg Lasley

ill have you know hes trying his DAMN BEST

it’s the Boat-Billed Heron and it just kind of Looks Like That

cattgirl:

cattgirl:

cattgirl:

You know what else I’m thinkin about? Cashew the cat with the small eyes

More info about cashew here

dandelion-head:

I discovered today that if Link’s hair doesn’t load properly in BotW he looks just like Bobby Hill.

“THAT’S MY PURSE! I DON’T KNOW YOU!”

negativeonetwelfth:

theraphos:

biowarefangirl:

when playing an open world game, at what point do you stop harvesting plants and return to the main quest??

there’s a main quest?

sometimes the main quest can unlock certain equipment or abilities that make harvesting plants more efficient

papoozled:

the-book-ferret:

“Books are the windows to the world.”

I love this so much

i thought sleepytime tea was run by a racist cult???

snulbug:

thedouble2013:

thedouble2013:

uh what

so it turns out the celestial seasonings founders were in fact cult members idk what to do with this information but this is like wild:

The Sleepytime Tea Founders Were Into a Really Skeezy New-Age Bible

In no time the friends were sauntering into the local bank to get a loan for their new business, “wearing jeans, smelling of herbs, and armed with Tupperware containers of Mo’s 36 and Sleepytime blends.” They called their company Celestial Seasonings, after co-founder Lucinda Ziesing’s flowername.

But there might be another reason they named it “celestial.” Mo Siegel and John Hay, two of the founders, were avid believers in a new-age bible called The Urantia Book, which followers call “an epochal revelation authored solely by celestial beings.” The book touches upon everything from mind control to a eugenics plot to eliminate the “inferior races” of our great nation.