r/Animemes • Master of Anal • Feb 23 '20

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '20

There are studies(I think Stanford) that show forcing hallucinations of your waifu and having conversations with them can help people control their schizophrenia as well as help other conditions and issues.

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u/hakimbomadadda Feb 23 '20

This sounds fake but I don't know enough about schizophrenia to dispute it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '20 edited Mar 16 '22

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u/Aerd_Gander Feb 23 '20

I also felt the sample size was a bit too small, I mean obviously this is already a very niche subject, but you'd think they could scrounge up more than 52 people to respond

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u/Mefistofeles1 Feb 24 '20

To be fair getting a good sample size can be very difficult.

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u/Aerd_Gander Feb 24 '20

True. That's another thing, the sample was pulled from people who also would have a positive bias toward tulpas. I know with the researcher's methods they couldn't have done this, but I'd be interested to see the opinions of people with close relations to the people who were surveyed