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Everything comes flooding back, the old house, the writing and the creature. I quickly sit up wires pull on my arms. A woman dressed in all white comes over to me.

In 1973, psychologist David Rosenhan published “On Being Sane in Insane Places” which documents the results of studies he and his confederates conducted at 12 different psychiatric hospitals across the United States. The studies were an examination into the reliability of psychiatric diagnosis methods. Rosenhan’s research focused on testing the hypothesis of whether or not psychiatrists and medical staff can distinguish the sane from the insane and if the characteristics that lead to diagnoses relate more to the patient or to the environment and context in which they’re being assessed. (Rosenhan, 1973) The study was divided into two main parts. Participant observations and comparative information studies were noted as well as they gave valuable insight into the treatment of psychiatric patients, conditions in psychiatric hospitals, and the effect that diagnostic labels had on how patients were perceived by staff. Ultimately, the study discovered that psychiatrists could not reliably distinguish the sane from the insane and insight was gained into how diagnostic labels and environmental context play a strong role in the perception of behavior.

Still looking around through pitch black darkness I hear it again, louder and closer this time. My heart beats a bit faster in a panic of fear and adrenaline, and my eyes dart to the foot of the bed, hoping to see nothing and calm down. But instead, at the foot of the bed I can barely make out

Everything fades and i am left with a few seconds of shouting from the group of survivors before i am left in nothingness once again

I look up again and see some-thing falling from the building, as it comes closer; I see that it is a body. It hits a lamppost and explodes like a paintball. I am in completely shock and cannot move. Over the chaos, I can hear sirens coming this way.

Amongst the buzz about Doctor Strange and Captain America 3, Marvel also announced the movie debut of a long-running but recently rebooted character by the name of Carol Danvers. Up until recently, Carol Danvers went by the name of Ms. Marvel and sported a skin-tight black leotard for a costume. However, in 2012 a writer named Kelly Sue DeConnick gave the character an updated look with a full body suit and a new name. Alex Abad-Santos uses Carol Danver’s history and her evolution into Captain Marvel in his essay “The Insane, Sexist History and Feminist Triumphs of Captain Marvel” to discuss the way women are portrayed in comics and how comic books reflect American society. Santos uses quotes from authors, provides panels from issues of Captain/Ms.

it is so quiet compared to what i was prior encompassed by. as my eyes adjust and my surroundings come into focus i see strange scribble upon unknown items. where am i and what have i just walked myself into?

My eyes never lose focus from the lamp across the street. The sky is getting darker, and the light brighter. Curtains are closing, and I hear doors being shut. I can vaguely hear someone calling my name

In the story “On Being Sane in Insane Places” by David Rosenhan, an experiment was performed to distinguish the “sane” from the “insane”. Rosenhan’s experiment was “being sane in insane places”. In 1970 David Rosenhan a psychiatrist and eight perfectly healthy and sane “pseudo patients” fake their way in into psychiatric hospitals across the United States. Martin Seligman states “David just called me up and said, ‘are you busy next October?’ I said.

As I lie flat on the uncomfortable, rigid bed those pale faces slowly disappeared and I was left to myself. I closed my eyes and saw a creature

Blackness continues to envelope around her, and she feels suffocated, claustrophobic until her eyes bare witness to the tiniest sliver of light and she knows when she moves through that crevice what she will be witnessing. Part of her fears and part of her wants to run to it. She keeps her movements slow and deliberate. She doesn’t want to miss anything, but she is also too aware of the pain she will

As I read On Being Sane in Insane Places and Mike’s musings I found both readings interesting. It really surprised me that Rosenhan called up eight friends and said “Are you busy next month? Would you have time to fake your way into a mental hospital and see what happens, see if they can tell you’re really sane?” (Slater, 2004) to know that those eight people were willing to pretend to be insane for an experiment; to give up their life, family and friends for a month to go live in a hospital with others in hopes to gain some knowledge from it all. If it was me, I would have been worried of what might have happened if the experiment went wrong or if the doctors would have figured out I was lying.

Footsteps. They're unmistakable and I immediately start searching for the source. There! A figure, still too far away to make out any features, but there nonetheless.

I click the flashlight on and shine it around. “Nothing..” I say to myself. I click the flashlight off. Immediately I get a strange urge to turn it back on and look to the right side of the

The room is swalled by nothing, it 's wall folded into the abyss like a carpet.