Exorcism-resistant Ghost Possession Treated with Clopenthixol | The British Journal of Psychiatry

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Medical journals count, right?

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Demon possessions were mental illnesses all along? Who would've thunk!

Lucky Brits. The drug is not approved for us in the US, so American ghosts are safe.

Conclusions Many cultures give rise to apparently genuine cases of ghost possession.

Not a single one has, there is literally 0 evidence of a genuine possession having ever happened anywhere.

The patient is the one the possession is "apparent" to.

The way they worded it indicates the condition (a delusion) is genuine, in that trivial efforts to assist the patient do not discard the "possession".

Like, I feel I've been in a haunted place before, but collected my thoughts and realized it was an old building with a draft and old framing. It still creeped me out for the rest of the night but I reassured myself that it was my social conditioning of what "creepy" was that was making me feel that way. If I couldn't shake the fear, that would make my perception more apparent.

These Ghostbusters sequels just keep getting worse.

Title is hilarious. Authors still manage to handle the narrative delicately, esp in the summary.

From what I've heard from actual scientists, click bait also exists in academic work to increase the chance of getting published.

Sigh….. We’re never leaving this planet.