The psychology behind obscure conspiracies

I've been locked up in few different mental "asylums" as a patient, maybe about 20 x one-4 weeks the past 6 years. have no psychiatric diseases, I just ended up in this system by doing insane stuff.

But this post is not about me.

I spend a lot of time talking to the other patients, and yeah, there was a few that thought spirits & ghost's were everywhere - and they tried to kill us all with knifes and # a few times because the ghost took us over haha..

But there was also a few, that really believed that we had reptile humanoids controlling our life, hidden cameras everywhere and things that "they" implanted in their teeth so they could record everything they said.


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