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What This Rat Experiment Teaches Us About Hope

Stories You Should Read Instead January 30, 2021February 6, 2021 by [email protected]

What was supposedly an experiment to measure how long rats swim in glass jars before giving up to drown and die, turned out to provide a powerful insight on resilience and hope. The HOPE Experiment In the 1950’s, Curt P. Richter, a professor from Johns Hopkins and a Harvard graduate, conducted a harsh experiment on …

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Read and Destroy

Stories You Should Read Instead August 8, 2020February 6, 2021 by [email protected]

This letter was found in the archives of the Meadow Creek Psychiatric Hospital, many years after it was closed. The identity of the author remains unknown. “I checked myself into a psychiatric hospital out of fear for my sanity, even though I secretly wished to be insane my whole life. Madness meant liberation from the …

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