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Заехали в прямо очень глухую часть Лори

A Harvard psychiatrist studied 15 prisoners kept alone in their cells for weeks or months at a time. 14 developed the same mental breakdown: hallucinations, paranoia, panic, brain fog they couldn't shake. Stuart Grassian published this in the American Journal of Psychiatry in 1983 and called it SHU Syndrome, after the Special Housing Units prisons use for isolation. When prisoners left solitary, most of those symptoms faded. The cell was doing it to them. Brain scans show the damage too. In 2019, researchers at Charité Berlin and the University of Pennsylvania scanned the brains of nine people before and after a 14-month stay at a remote Antarctic research station. The hippocampus shrank by 7 percent on average. That part of your brain handles memory and how you find your way around. The prefrontal cortex (planning, self-control) also lost volume. And BDNF, a protein that helps brain cells grow and form new connections, dropped sharply and still hadn't recovered six weeks after the team came home. Same biology, just from being cut off from the world. The UN's torture investigator Juan Méndez ruled in 2011 that solitary confinement beyond 15 days counts as torture, because the brain damage past that point can be permanent. The UN General Assembly made it official policy in 2015 and called it the Nelson Mandela Rules. A 2020 review in The Lancet Psychiatry pulled together 77 studies covering 35,351 prison suicides across 27 countries. People serving life sentences were 2.4 times more likely to take their own life than other prisoners. Prisoners in single cells were 6.8 times more likely. In California in 2004, isolation units held less than 10 percent of the state's prison population but accounted for 73 percent of all prison suicides. On American death row, the suicide rate runs roughly nine times the general public's. And around 1 in 10 people executed in the US since 1976 asked the state to drop their appeals and kill them faster.

Я глубоко убеждена что между людьми с айфонами и андроидами фундаментальная пропасть

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