Strange answers to the psychopath test | Jon Ronson | TED
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Is there a definitive line that divides crazy from sane? With a hair-raising delivery, Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test, illuminates the gray areas between the two. (With live-mixed sound by Julian Treasure and animation by Evan Grant.)
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Tony: I'm not a psychopath! Tony's doctor: That's exactly what a psychopath would say!
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I think the biggest problem is that if you tell someone for 14 years every day that they are insane, at one point they start to believe you.
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The absolute best Ted Talk I've ever heard. "He's a gray area in a world that doesn't like gray areas. But the gray areas are where you find the complexity." The majority of societal problems has to do with the many labels and stereotypes places upon things. If those left, we would be a lot better off.
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surprised the checklist didn't have "stands in a dimly lit room with two very bald men behind him in the shadows"
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,,There's about 30 or 40 psychopaths in this room." Psychopaths in the room: laughing inside
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Imagine after the speech he just started laughing and said “ That's right. I am Tony ”
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Don’t mind this comment: I’m just writing down some time code I’ll have to use for a school presentation: Tony’s story : 2:24 Tony sane-looking outfit : 4:21 Convince you’re sane : 5:56 "sitting like a journalist" : 6:35 Statistics: 8:50 Capitalism : 9:25 AI Dunlap’s grand Florida mansion: 10:52 Dunlap psychopath checklist : 12:19 Journalist defining by the maddest edges: 13:49 Everyone is a bit psychopathic : 15:46 Gray area : 16:54
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I remember learning about a psychology study where the researchers would admit themselves into a mental hospital. Don't remember too much of the details, but the main point was once you're labelled as "insane" it's extremely hard to remove the tag. Even if you behave normally (which is hard to do when you're actively trying to behave normally) and deny that you're insane, it's labelled as insane behavior.
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"He's a grey area in a world that doesn't like grey areas." Never heard anything truer.
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"It's a lot harder to convince people you're sane than to convince people you're crazy." I fell that on a spiritual level.
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"a world that doesn't like grey areas" is a perfect description of Twitter.
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During my life I amassed a huge number of diagnostic labels - anxiety, GAD, depression, OCD, SAD, PTSD, potential bipolar/BPD, complex PTSD.... only, it was none of those things. It was autism and it took 41-years, decades of therapy, and countless clinical assessments to be correctly identified. The DSM is only helpful if the clinician is fully aware. And believe me, not all practitioners are made equal. Misdiagnosis happens all the time.
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"The grey area is were you find the complexity, the truth, the humanity." Beautiful quote.
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someone once said "it is easier to fool people than to convince them they're fooled"
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This reminds me of a study conducted in 1960s by Rosenhan, where 8 completely sane people go into these hospitals claiming they heard voices but then act completely normal. it tuned out that nurses recorded their very normal behavior like pacing out of boredom as schizophrenic traits
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Absolutely. I went to visit a friend in a mental hospital. When we were sat there, there was random screaming and banging in the corridors which was really scary! I said "I bet you stay in here all the time, I know I would!" and she said she had to start with but she'd been told they thought she was insane because she didn't want to socialise with the other inmates. So she was having to force herself out to be with them. I cried all the way home for her. (She's fine now and back in the community).
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"The only difference between a madman and me is that the madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad." Salvador Dali
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I really like that one line "I was desperate to define him by his maddest edges."
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I think the conclusion is so on point, we live in a world that’s obsessed with categorisation because it makes things easier for us to understand but this is something that doesn’t work well when applied to mental state
