Analyses indicated that exposure to misinformation about the cause of one's auditory hallucinations during a psychotic episode was associated with less, if any mental health professional help seeking from voice hearers experiencing psychosis and paranoid delusions . Mind control delusions have been with us since before the internet , before cell towers, some suggest these technological fantasies began in the later 1800's. even controlling for exposure to other sources with similar content. exposure to mind control whilst in the throws of psychosis can and has lead to contagion in vulnerable users. Implications of allowing these groups to attract social media users with a lack of insight into their illness can be violent. It would be one thing if these groups performed a therapeutic use to untreated delusional users, what we have observed is these groups simply egging the user further into their false belief system encouraging the followers to document everything 'that happens' to them leading to a fixation and sense of sunken cost when the user might question the point of these groups which can lead to violence.
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