THE “MARTHA MITCHELL EFFECT” The Martha Mitchell effect is a psychiatric misdiagnosis where a patient’s accurate description of real, though highly improbable, events is wrongly labeled as a delusion. It occurs when clinicians fail to verify claims and dismiss them as mental illness. Named after the Nixon-era cabinet wife whose true reports of the Watergate … Continue reading DECADES of Discrediting Using the Mental Illness Tag has Expired, the Truth is Snowballing!