If I were to request that you disclose to your acquaintances and relatives that you are experiencing auditory hallucinations that you firmly believe are originating from cellular towers, and furthermore, if I were to challenge you to disseminate the same information on social media for a week, it is unlikely that you would comply unless you were offered a large sum of money and provided with a detailed explanation of how this might one day benefit mental health research.
The law is quite specific regarding psychological experiments on vulnerable individuals, as such experiments are considered grounds for criminal culpability unless there is no other option but to conduct such tests through deception. What is the purpose of informing individuals who hear voices that their voices are the result of neuroweapons? Neuroweapons exist only in the realm of science fiction. Voice-to-skull weapons are not the cause of auditory hallucinations. Rather, individuals experience auditory hallucinations due to psychiatric illness. The pursuit of comprehending mental illness has paved the way for exploitation of these individuals online.
Frankly, individuals with such psychiatric issues cannot afford to be subjected to further mistreatment. They have already been subjected to enough. Most individuals with severe mental disorders are unable to work and are entirely dependent on those who allow them to reside in their homes. To not anticipate suicide or homicide resulting from this type of encouragement toward false beliefs is, in and of itself, criminal.
By encouraging users who lack self awareness of the very fact they have a mental issue to add the hashtag "targeted individual" to one's name, it is evident, or should have been, that any stigma associated with schizophrenia or psychosis is amplified tenfold, even after the individual experiencing auditory hallucinations receives mental health services, such outrageous behavior online is difficult to forget.
Researchers should have recognized that this encouragement to self-identify would exclude them from opportunities due to biases entrenched in the public.
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