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Anonymous said:
.. sometimes i think this site only exists to elicit data for various research

call me paranoid but I get that impression sometimes

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Your feelings are understandable but if the posted policies can be relied upon, and I have every confidence that they can, Doc John has committed to never use anything posted by members for research purposes. From the community guidelines:

Forums are Research-Free

These forums strictly prohibit any research being conducted on them for any purpose whatsoever. Any user of this forum is prohibited from conducting research on the forums in any form, whether it be as a group or on an individual poster.

I don't believe it feels very good or very safe if you feel like anything you might want to share or write about might one day end up in some random professional journal, archived for all of time. I prohibit any and all research to be conducted on posts herein.

Anyway, about smoking, I don't know if this is in any way accounted for in the Sanity Score but it has been shown that people with certain disorders, particularly bipolar and schizophrenia are something like 5 times more likely to be chronic, irredeemable smokers than the general population. In one survey the smoking rate was 8 in 10 among schizophrenics.