Doug revealed that he started to simulate extreme distress in order to be released, but then that role got to him. “I figured the only way I could get out of the experiment was to play sick, first physical. Then when that didn’t work I played at mental fatigue. However, the energy it took to get into that space, and the mere fact that I could be so upset, upset me.” How upset? He reported that his girlfriend told him that he was so upset and nervous that he talked about the experiment constantly for two months afterward.
