If you want to avoid mental patients, you may want to stay away from Washington, DC. According to a new study, the country's capital has the largest number of mentally ill patients in the country. Surprised?
Washington, DC is the most psychiatric patient in the United States. (Source: Scott Olson / Getty Images News / GettyImages) In order to understand how the population of mentally ill patients is broken down by country, Southern Methodist University professor and research author Ryan Murphy An estimate of state psychiatric disease was made using a previous study on personality traits. He then ranks the 48 continents and the District of Columbia according to the characteristics of possible definitions of mental illness, and determines that the country's capital h is far more difficult than any state. Why is this happening? According to his previous research, he believes that this is because "mental patients may be effective in the political arena." Ok.
Now this does not mean that D.C. is full of crazy Hannibal Lecters. When many of us hear the word "mental", we think of serial killers in masks - most politicians obviously don't - so what defines a mentally ill person?
Clinical Psychologist and California Psychology Professor Dr. Ramani Durvasula of Los Angeles State University told LIVESTRONG.COM that a mentally ill person is "a person who lacks compassion, has the right to manipulate and exploit, is easy to deceive and lie." They also feel guilty or repent of any form of behavior in the face of bad things. "Sound familiar?
Ph.D. Durvasula agreed with Murphy's view that politics is the "logical" career of mental patients. “It gives them strength and a perfect habitat to manipulate and use,” Dr. Durvasula explained. In addition, “it allows them to build more scams into something that looks like a common interest. For example, they open a new school or some other public event, while diverting funds to keeping pockets lining. "[
Politics also needs to manipulate behavior from ensuring donationsTo get the most votes and so on. Because the advantages of mental patients often include lying, exploitation and not affecting the negative impact on others, making politics the best choice for them.
However, Dr. Durvasul will soon point out that, of course, not all politicians are mentally ill.
"There are some proactive politicians, but they are becoming less and less, mainly because of how our political system is being built in the United States and many parts of the world," she said. She explained that these systems require individuals to use manipulation to get the donors and votes they want. These are the advantages of mental patients, "because they are willing to lie and use and care less about who they need"
It’s Murphy’s method of creating a list: using previous research to determine the level of each of the “five” personality traits (friendly, outgoing, open, conscientious, and neurotic), and then he translates these characteristics into psychosis (de-suppression) , bold and mean) related features. "Bold corresponds to low neuroticism and high extroversion, averaging corresponds to low amenity and de-suppression corresponds to low duty," Murphy explained to Quartz. Using this information, Murphy was able to design a numerical "raw" score for each state he used to estimate the ranking.
lags behind DC between Connecticut, California, New Jersey and New Jersey, and fifth place between Wyoming and New York. According to his research, the state with the least number of mentally ill patients is West Virginia, followed by Vermont, Tennessee, North Carolina, and New Mexico. Murphy told Newsweek that he believes that the distribution of mentally ill patients is related to the “city/rural difference” across countries. Basically, they are more likely to be in the city than in the rural environment, which is another reason why the dense geographic area of the District of Columbia may top the list.
The findings were published in a network of social science research, but have not been peer-reviewed - meaning that external researchers have not yet approved Murphy's findings.
The following is a complete list of patients in the order of psychiatric patients:
1. District of Columbia
2. Connecticut
3. California
4. New Jersey
5. New York and Wyoming (tie)
7. Maine
8. Wisconsin
9. Nevada
10. Illinois
11. Virginia
12. Maryland
13. Dakota State
14. Delaware
15. Massachusetts
16. Arizona
17. Florida
18. Iowa
19. Colorado
20. Texas
21. Ohio
22. Utah
23. Arkansas
24. Idaho
25. North Dakota
26. Michigan
27. Alabama
28. Pennsylvania
29. Rhodes
30. Louisiana
31. Kansas
32. Georgia
33. Minnesota
34. Missouri
35. Washington
36. Kentucky
37. Nebraska
38. South Carolina
39. New Hampshire
40. Oregon
41. Indiana
42. Mississippi
43. Montana
44. Oklahoma
45. New Mexico
46. North Carolina
47. Special nnessee
48. Vermont
49. West Virginia
Now you can use this new study to help you better identify mentally ill people near you - or at least better understand the origins of some politicians!
