Talk:Hero syndrome

Numbers of Cases are Unreported
It's unverified, and perhaps unverifiable, for the article to state that the number of people with Hero Syndrome is increasing. M^A^L (talk) 21:30, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

bad references here — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.173.216.6 (talk) 08:14, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Find sources

 * Several potential sources are available in this Google News Archive search for "Hero syndrome". Northamerica1000(talk) 00:00, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Several potential sources are available in this Google News Archive search for "Hero syndrome". Northamerica1000(talk) 00:00, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Source Contradicts Article Information
This article needs a lot of work, but perhaps somewhere to start is the fact that the one and only source listed contradicts information in the article. The source article, though I haven't read it, has a headline of 'Experts say 'Hero Syndrome' not Common Among Police', when in the Wikipedia article, it's specifically stated that police are one of the lines of work within which many victims of Hero Syndrome reside. If an admin or anybody with the authority/knowledge necessary to mark this wikipedia article for fixing reads this, please consider doing so. ToxicReap (talk) 15:39, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Informal theory presented as accepted science
I think this entire article is problematic, presenting an informal and unverified term as if it were an accepted psychological phenomenon when it isn't. It should be written like the "Napoleon complex" article, recognising upfront that it's a theory which hasn't received formal academic or medical support (at this time). FilthiestOfPeasant (talk) 03:50, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Even if we ignore that, we can at least get rid of misinformation like this: "People with hero syndrome GENERALLY cause an accident or disaster with the intention of then coming in to render aid, and become the 'hero'." This is just awful: 1) It's a very bold claim; it needs strong support from citations (currently it has none). 2) It's almost certainly wrong. Even if we assume this is a real psychological disorder, almost no disorder leads to most sufferers committing criminal acts and certainly not such a specific act. The alternative of defining "hero syndrome" as "the thing what makes people do this" is obviously circular and totally inappropriate as the definition of a mental illness. (N.B. Just changing "generally" to "may" isn't good enough. Anybody from any group may do all sorts of objectionable things. Mentioning it at all implies that this "condition" makes people more likely to do it, which requires evidence.) FilthiestOfPeasant (talk) 04:07, 16 August 2019 (UTC)