Mental health and self-examination

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If you were to take the United States as an example, some people might be unhappy – but presumably if you were such a black and white person, you probably wouldn’t like any of the articles here. Of course, what I want to talk about next is not only the function of Twitter in the United States, but Douban also has such a function for a long time. For example, when a user searches for the keyword “suicide” in the Douban search box, a prompt box will pop up to persuade the user’s behavior, and provide a hotline that can be dialed. Later, it gradually became a function of domestic search engines.

For modern society, “this matter” should be regarded as a very normal “social function”. When the Internet predicts that a person may commit suicide, it will give some dissuasion and help , which seems very “powerless”. But maybe it really is the last straw to save others. So this matter alone is not much “fun”, don’t panic, you have to look at the following two things together.

The university arranges students to take psychological tests, and some students’ test results are prone to depression. The school then asked these students to write an 800-word self-examination. This story sounds outrageous at first, but there are many interesting angles in it – for the Chinese, “self-examination” is often after “doing the wrong thing”, and then it is necessary to make the person who did the wrong thing obedient or absolute. Means of obedience to arrangements. Then why did the students develop a self-examination when taking a psychological test? For my years of experience in writing a self-examination, if I was assigned a psychological test by the school, I would most likely be forced to write a self-examination by the school—because I would definitely do the opposite, deliberately taking a psychological test. Choose the “most terrifying” options from time to time, and then let your test results show a psychologically unhealthy conclusion. When the final results came out, my test results would definitely be dubious by the teacher, who was then forced to write a self-examination of “fucking around the rules”.

Of course, this is the “best outcome” I can think of. If it is because the student’s psychological test is “failed” and there is a tendency for depression, the student is asked to write a self-examination to improve their mental health. This thing itself is so fucking bullshit. It is worthy of being a country of “united will to overcome science”, even depression can be improved or even treated by writing a self-examination.

Another thing is a “major police situation” notification. I need to admit that I couldn’t find any news about this announcement in the domestic search engine, and all I saw was just a photo of a computer screen with only a few words indicating that it was a “premeditated murder” “, so let’s default this news to “FakeNews”.

The content of “Major Police Situation” is “Ningbo successfully warned and dealt with a murder case involving a college student” … A student from Ningbo Health Vocational and Technical College (female, 18 years old, from Ningbo) frequently searches the Internet through her mobile phone for “how to If you kill your roommate, you will be able to get out.” After being summoned, the student confessed that he was dissatisfied with the behavior and life style of Wang and Xu in the same dormitory, and had the idea of ​​killing two people, and bought a fruit knife and a utility knife in the school supermarket on September 12. Hands, a pair of gloves, plan to kill the roommate while he sleeps… (The content in the photo is displayed here)

Previously I wrote in “Why People Don’t Want to Believe in Artificial Intelligence? As discussed in Artificial Intelligence and Criminal Prediction”, the complex calculation of artificial intelligence itself can deduce a person’s “criminal intent”. Although it cannot access the subjective thoughts of the parties, from an objective perspective It can also be used as a reference in itself. For example, in terms of the conviction elements of intentional homicide, in addition to analyzing the subjective intention of the criminal subject, it is also necessary to analyze the objective tools he uses.

For example, the extrajudicial madman Zhang wanted to find a neighbor’s theory, so he took a wooden stick as a tool of intimidation. During the process of the theory with the next-door neighbor Wang, a dispute occurred. Zhang waved the stick and planned to scare Wang. X, Wang X was knocked on the back of the head before he could dodge and fell to the ground and died on the spot. Is that Zhang a “intentional homicide”? According to the “normal” criminal law, Zhang is actually more likely to be convicted of “negligence causing death” – because he did not have the subjective malicious intention of killing Wang, and the wooden stick he brought was an objective tool. In other words, he is not a criminal tool that can easily lead to death.

But if Zhang took a kitchen knife from his family when he was about to quarrel—then Zhang’s conviction would gradually turn to “intentional homicide”, depending on whether he wanted to put the other party down with malicious intentions at the moment when he swung the knife. To die – of course, this is a judicial consideration in the “ideal state”.

Having said that, the girl Xiao Wang searched on the Internet for “how to kill a roommate and get away with it”, which has proved that she has some intention to kill, and then she went to buy “criminal tools”, then she is gradually crossing the line. If you enter the forbidden area of ​​attempted crime, sooner or later you will enter a quasi-criminal and then contribute to the completion of the crime. So the question is, is such an “early warning” really reasonable? Clearly, answering this question requires answering a preconditional question – is it reasonable for our search history to be monitored in real time?

If the end of this news is that the school warned Xiao Wang and asked her to write an 800-word self-examination – will this matter be really resolved? I believe it could have gotten worse as her intentions and thoughts were fully exposed and that review couldn’t be a shackle on crime restrictions.

Searching for keywords such as “killing roommate + Zhihu” in the search engine shows that it is not only the girl Xiao Wang who has this idea. People who are easily impulsive, whose psychological defenses are fragile, and who are easily deceived may have taken the wrong step at this moment – so combining these two contents, the school arranges psychological tests, I think its intention is if There is also “inferring which students may be at risk of killing roommates”, is it possible to make a prediction? At this time, it seems reasonable to let those students who are mentally unstable and who are at risk of killing their roommates write their own self-examinations— because Chinese people always like right and wrong, and you are tempted to kill roommates. No matter how wrong your roommate is, how stupid you are, you can’t kill someone for it – so it’s wrong to think that way.

A Zhihu user asked, “Is the mental health test in colleges and universities a preventive measure or a further impetus?” Now most colleges and universities will conduct psychological tests and investigations on college students and graduate students in order to prevent them from having psychological problems. The starting point is a good one, but is it really useful? As far as I know, students generally have two reactions when faced with psychological tests: 1. It’s a waste of time, and it’s meaningless to fill in this kind of stuff. 2. I know that I have mental health problems, but if it is found that I have mental health problems If I have a problem, I will be asked to talk, I will be educated, I will be deducted from the comprehensive score, and I will even be ordered to drop out of school. Then I must pretend that I have no problem.

If a student is really pre-judged “criminal mind” because of psychological tests, is that “self-examination” a way to prevent problems before they happen, or is it just fueling the flames?

Obviously, in the end, “solving the person who asked/created the problem” is the fastest “problem-solving” method.

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