Guest guest Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha__effect The Martha Effect is a process by which a belief is mistakenly diagnosed as a delusion by a psychiatrist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Exactly! And even hypochondriacs get sick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail! Jim Re: the Martha Effect How timely your post is! In my conversation with that shrink last Friday, this is one of the things he talked about. He said that he had learned a lesson early in his career about jumping to a diagnosis when one of his patients said that his neighbors were trying to kill him. He immediately assumed that the patient's condition was deterioriating, made notes to that effect and changed the strength of his meds. The patient consequently did not come in for several weeks and when he did, his arm was in a cast and sling. The shrink asked what happened to his arm. The patient said that his neighbor's teenage son and some of his buddies had shot him in the arm with a .22 pistol. Turns out the teens had been harrassing this guy for months and had previously thrown rocks and shot pellets through his windows, set his back porch on fire, and pushed and punched him on several occasions. As I've said before - you are not paranoid if they really are out to get you. LOL Terry Jim <mofunnow@...> wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha__effect The Martha Effect is a process by which a belief is mistakenly diagnosed as a delusion by a psychiatrist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 My son has " Paranoid " written on his hospital intake sheet. They justify by saying, " He claims people were taking about him behind his back " . Tell me what 13 year old, who is being bullied, and hears his bully say, " we are going to get him " , Doesn't assume they are talking behind his back. I got into a disagreement with My sister-in-law, over something her Aunt said about me. Can I say she dislikes me and says nasty stuff about me when I am not there. Or am I jumping to conclusions because I am paranoid? When the Doctor at Shepard Pratt (and being a brit. I laugh at that " pratt " thing everyday), wanted to put Nick on Zoloft, after he was off all meds, and doing very well, I refused. Doc stated I was unwilling to help my son get better. Then the doctor wrote a report saying he belived Nick needed to be Kept in the hospital longer, because of his past history. We went to court and had the record state how well Nick was doing at the time the last report was written. We got him home. I was accused of being manipulative, to get my own way. I wish i hd know about the Martha Effect back then.. Thanks for the info. Maggs. __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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