Okay, fans, numerology comes first. In the 1997 GMC Jimmy I hit 234,567.8 miles this morning but didn’t have a camera to record the moment. I was wondering if I should look for a rainbow or buy a lottery ticket. Maybe there’ll be a chain email in my in-box where I can finally send on the next link and win fabulousness and/or an awesome something.
I read about the hullabaloo regarding the publishing of 10 Rorschach plates in a Wiki article. Psychiatrists were worried about patients “gaming” the test by having knowledge of common responses to ink blots before an exam. Aside from thinking the blots are only part of a comprehensive exam and the skillful practitioner of soft science has many other tools it reminded me of an acquaintance who committed an on-going fraudulent mental disability claim simply by “gaming” or “studying” the current DSM and journals in order to “fail” improvement to the point of keeping that monthly check coming. This person has some issues, for sure, but none which would prevent one from pushing that mail cart through the bank headquarters everyday, testing a circuit board, taking your toll money, or in some kind of way earning a living using those crafty neurons in a constructive way.
Imagine, your job is simply acting a certain way in one interview per year. Thousands of dollars per month show up in your mailbox. Amazing.
There are many layers to this onion. One becomes pathological about psychiatric pathology. Your livelihood depends on it. Any write-up about your disability diagnosis in the journals must be found and digested. Tangential threads cannot be ignored and are considered for relevance. “Hmm… if I add this thread at the next interview then this will clearly show a progression and complication…”
Most humans view others through our own behavioral filters. If everything one does is based upon fraud or dishonesty and is pathological to boot then hypercritical character analysis is freely given regarding any other person. Put another way these observations are never “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar” or informative. This person observes human acts and sees symptoms of deeper pathological problems everywhere. My trigger is your trigger – it MUST be. (I know, what a surprise.)
If you are a mental disability fraud you cannot celebrate your cleverness in an obvious way because then you risk discovery and like the Workers’ Compensation cheats lifting that big screen TV on hidden camera video you end up on the Evening News with a smiling face involved in normal human interactions. So, you become reclusive. Would it surprise anyone that after a couple of decades of isolation and being fearful of discovery as a fraud one might be diagnosed agoraphobic?
What about the spiritual vacuum which can’t be dealt with honestly without admitting/confessing the fraud? Does writing a letter and putting it in the envelope work? Really? Working on spirituality takes up more and more time because the vacuum grows.
I watched a person with an interest in psychology turn into an un-fun, hypercritical, over-analytical, worrywort who has to “process” every conversation with the person described above and gets GIGO. The spider has a fly. Seeing the change in this friend was sad.
Anyway, my basic observation, in at least one case, is that if someone wishes to take advantage of the psychological diagnostic information available it does not take a person of above average intelligence to acquire the information and game or commit fraud with that knowledge.
The horse left the barn before the Wiki article incident. The barn door was left open by Herr Doktor Rorschach in 1921 when he wrote a book.
Mars out.
Posted by Marshall Hansen 
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Posted by Marshall Hansen 
