Naughty_Felid
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Psychology students are told a story of a bus driver who gets bored and drops off his passengers at a mental health facility, who are then admitted as patients and have the devil of a job regaining their freedom. Nobody believes their story of being kidnapped and dumped.
Can't be true, but the idea is to illustrate the problem of stereotyping people with mental health problems; basically, they are seen as unreliable witnesses.
That's probably based on the famous Rosenhan experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment which later became the epic On being sane in insane places, (always worth a read). Basically, a team of researchers feigned mental illness to get admitted and had a terrible time getting out of the institutions.