I wouldn't say this of most of these gang stalking types, but it seems at least somewhat possible that someone of this sort of psychological profile might actually have been a target of some sort of MKULTRA style operation, as Dr. Theodore Kaczynski was. Not every one of that program's victims turned out as well as he did.
The crazy thing about that is that even though the IRB theoretically has to review all experiments for ethics concerns, university professors still engage in the kind of ideological breakdown experimentation that they did to Uncle Ted. And even before the most traumatic versions of those experiments were canned, Kaczynski's college wasn't just experimenting on him, he was part of a cohort of something like 20-30 participants in that single experiment.
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Not to PL too much but I've known a few aging "psychonauts" in my time. It's hard to say, do the drugs break their brains or do people with broken brains seek out these drugs? It's often a bit of both, but hard to tell how much of each. Something tells me if she was into even mild psychedelics it was probably just experimentation - it's not exactly compatible with a high powered Oxford PhD. We'd likely have a better idea if we had testimony from anyone around her at the time. I'd put my money on wholly or mostly a broken brain combined with stress.
This is possible, but imo unlikely aside from her potentially being inspired by some of these stories. Here's an example: the actual life of John Nash. His delusions are very similar to those of most "targeted individuals" - he believed that he was being stalked by secret societies and communists, that society was full of communist infiltrators, and that he was a person of interest to them. He never had full visual hallucinations (which are extremely rare) but he did have many delusional episodes. The thing is that his belief that American society was heavily infiltrated by communists seems ridiculous to us now, but was fairly mainstream at the time, and heavily encouraged by fictional media, as well as the exposure of genuine Soviet spies in the 50s and 60s. Philip K. Dick, who was probably also schizophrenic or something similar, had his own delusions about communists, this time infiltrating the science fiction scene, going as far as sending a deranged letter to the FBI. Communists were the bogeyman, even though realistically there were very few of them, and no evidence they were organized enough in the 60s for any kind of real conspiracy.
If people are still interested in her work, she has a profile on inspirehep.net. She is named on a bunch of papers (128 to be exact), but they all have shit tons of other authors as well. It looks like everyone who worked on the experiment gets named as an author.
The jet energy scale (JES) and its systematic uncertainty are determined for jets measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 38 inverse pb. Jets are reconstructed with the anti-kt algorithm with distance parameters R=0.4 or R=0.6. Jet energy and angle corrections are determined from Monte Carlo simulations to calibrate jets with transverse momenta pt > 20 GeV and pseudorapidities eta<4.5. The JES systematic uncertainty is estimated using the single isolated hadron response measured in situ and in test-beams. The JES uncertainty is less than 2.5% in the central calorimeter region (eta<0.for jets with 60 < pt < 800 GeV, and is maximally 14% for pt < 30 GeV in the most forward region 3.2<eta<4.5. The uncertainty for additional energy from multiple proton-proton collisions in the same bunch crossing is less than 1.5% per additional collision for jets with pt > 50 GeV after a dedicated correction for this effect. The JES is validated for jet transverse momenta up to 1 TeV to the level of a few percent using several in situ techniques by comparing a well-known reference such as the recoiling photon pt, the sum of the transverse momenta of tracks associated to the jet, or a system of low-pt jets recoiling against a high-pt jet. More sophisticated jet calibration schemes are presented based on calorimeter cell energy density weighting or hadronic properties of jets, providing an improved jet energy resolution and a reduced flavour dependence of the jet response. The JES systematic uncertainty determined from a combination of in situ techniques are consistent with the one derived from single hadron response measurements over a wide kinematic range. The nominal corrections and uncertainties are derived for isolated jets in an inclusive sample of high-pt jets.
No, I'm comparing certain psychotic delusions to the only thing I can think of where people believe in something with absolute conviction and no doubt.
It's not so much that her life is "too fucking tragic," in my opinion, it's that there's not enough comedy to contrast with the tragedy.
Nash started talking about this as a older man when his schizophrenic symptoms had greatly reduced compared to symptoms in his late 20s to 50’s.
You're thinking of James Tilly Matthews, to say he discovered Radio is schizophrenic in itself though. He is the first fully documented case of Schizophrenia.
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Thank you, I couldn’t remember his name.You're thinking of James Tilly Matthews, to say he discovered Radio is schizophrenic in itself though. He is the first fully documented case of Schizophrenia.
The general idea is that believed that the French Revolution was a plot by several secret societies to turn the world mad by operating a device known as the airloom. It's worth reading the wikipedia page if your interested in this kind of stuff.
His delusions are very similar to Horton's, and virtually every other paranoid schizophrenic.
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So I was right, logic won in the end. Jk
It varies hugely and the boundaries are not cut and dried between schizophrenia and other illnesses. Insight into their own illness can vary dramatically (even for a single patient over their lifetime) so at some points a patient can be aware they’re ill and at other times they are totally not in control. Cognitive function takes a huge hit for most people, and declines as they go through life. Nash was an unusual case in many ways.