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'I've Been Abducted by Aliens

2008· article· en· W2276084331 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Patricia Kinne, Venna Bhanot

Bibliographic record

VenueCurrent psychiatry · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicParanormal Experiences and Beliefs
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBedtimePsychologyDaughterPsychiatryIrritabilityFeelingAnxiety
DOInot available

Abstract

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Ms. S is afraid to sleep at night because that's when the aliens come. Is she psychotic, or do her nocturnal experiences have another cause? CASE 'I'm not crazy' Ms.S, age 55, presents for treatment because she is feeling depressed and anxious. Her symptoms include decreased concentration, intermittent irritability, hoarding, and difficulty starting and completing tasks. She also has chronis sleep difficulties that often keep her awake until dawn. Fatigue, lack of focus, and poor comprehension and motivation have left her unemployed. She and her teenage daughter live with Ms. S's elderly mother. Ms. S feels tremendous guilt because she cannot be the mother and daughter she wants to be. Initially, I (PK) diagnose Ms. S with major depressive disorder and prescribe sertraline, 100 mg/d, which improves her mood and energy. However, her inability to stay organized results in her being let go from job training. Ms. S reports similar difficulties in school as a child. I determine that she meets DSM-IV-TR criteria for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Adding methylphenidate, 10 mg bid, improves her concentration and ability to complete tasks. It also reduces the impulsivity that has disrupted her relationships. Despite a strong desire to normalize her sleep schedule, Ms. S continues to have difficulty falling asleep, so I add melatonin, 3 to 6 mg at bedtime. Her sleeping pattern is imporved, but still variable. She also tries quetiapine, 25 mg at bedtime, but soon discontinues it due to intolerance. As out rapport strengthens, Ms. S reveals that she has had multiple encounters with aliens beginning at age 3. Although she has not had an experience for about 5 years, she does not feel safe sleeping at night and instead sleeps during the day. Her efforts to stay awake at night strain her relationship with her mother. How would you respond to a patient who claims she has been abducted by aliens? a) explain that there are no such things as aliens b) insist that she was dreaming c) issue mental hygiene warrant and sign a certificate for immediate hospitalization d) explore the experiences in a supportive, respectful manner and rule out organic or substance-induced etiology The authors' observations Approximately 1% of the U.S, population report alien abduction experiences (AAE)--an umbrella term that includes alleged contact with aliens ranging from sightings to abductions. (1) Patients rarely report AAE to mental health professionals. In our society, claiming to be an abductee implies that one might be insance. A survey of 398 Canadian students that assessed attitudes, beliefs, and experiences regarding alien abductions found that 79% of respondents believed they would have mostly negative consequences--such as being laughed at or socially isolated--if they claimed to have encountered aliens. (1) Persons who have AAE may attend support groups of fellow abductees to accumulate behavior-consonant information (hearing other people's abduction stories) and reduce dissonance by being surrounded by others who share a questionablw belief. (2) A survey of abductees found that 88% report at least some positive aspects of the experience, such as a sense of importance or feeling as though they were chosen to bridge communication between extraterrestrials and humans. (3) Data collected over 17 years from Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) scores of 225 persons who reported AAF reveal common personality traits, including: * high levels of psychic energy] * self-sufficiency * resourcefulness * a tendency to question authority and to be exposed to situational conflicts. (1) Other common characteristics include above-average intelligence, assertiveness, a tendency to be reserved and absorbed in thought, and a tendency toward defensiveness, but no overt psychopathology. …

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.082
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.032
GPT teacher head0.337
Teacher spread0.304 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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