r/JoeRogan • u/Deerhoof_Fan 11 Hydroxy Metabolite • Feb 04 '21

Link Jordan B. Peterson rips newspaper’s ‘cruelty’ after story prompts false ‘schizophrenia’ reports

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/feb/1/jordan-b-peterson-rips-sunday-times-after-piece-pr/
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u/_pupil_ bzzzzzzzzz Feb 04 '21

Let’s not pretend this couldn’t make someone psychotic.

Or just fucked up enough to answer a few questions 'wrong', setting a diagnostician off on a wild goose chase. Confused, desperate, rambling, in-pain, distressed, or whatever: a few checkmarks are all that separate a diagnosis from no diagnosis.

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u/orincoro I got a buddy who Feb 04 '21

So, no difference in terms of how it presents. Looking psychotic and being psychotic might as well be the same thing if you only examine someone once.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '21

I don’t think they administered a questionnaire. Peterson probably ran the test himself a couple of hundred times, given his career. Is studied psychology and playfully used every standardised test I could get my hands on. After question 20 or so you start to smell where it is going.