For some time, a text has been popular on the Internet, whose main idea is not to trust all kinds of psychologists and coaches. We checked whether the facts mentioned in it are true.

Here is the content of the publication:

“In the USA, the author of the book on family harmony“ How to save marriage ”shot his wife and posted on Facebook her photo.

Dale Carnegie died in complete solitude.

Benjamin Spock, his own sons wanted to hand over his elderly house.

M. Montessori gave her son to the foster family, feeling that her destiny on this earth was to devote herself to other people's children, and the Korean writer, the author of the bestsellers "how to be happy," hanged herself from depression.

This is all that you need to know about all kinds of trainings of personal growth, esoteric guru, coaches and business trainers. ”

This text has been walking along this past few years social networks, information portals And collections of quotes, and its popularity is wave -like. So, in 2021 similar publication Almost 1000 people shared the famous Ukrainian businessman and YouTube blogger. The beginning of virus distribution was given in February 2016, when even such an influential resource as a selection was placed as a selection "Echo of Moscow". Publication Alla Ustyakina, residents of Novorossiysk, scored about 20,000 reposts on Facebook in those days. Later appeared and Expanded version The text in which each fact was accompanied by short details, and the author of the bestseller “light way to quit smoking” Allen Carr (“dead from lung cancer”) and the creator of the famous diet Robert Atkins (“dead from obesity”) were added to the heroes.

Now about the facts. Indeed, in February 2013, American Derek Medina I released a motivation book “How I saved someone’s life, marriage and resolved family problems with the help of communication” (and there are five more similar trainings followed by it), and in August I shot his wife eight times, after which I posted a picture of the murdered wife in social network. His lawyers could not prove that the act was committed in order to self -defense after long years of abuse from his wife, and in November 2015 Medina I received a life sentence. However, Medina was not a bestseller at the time of the murder.

What can not be said about Dr. Benjamin Spock, whom the media called "One of the most famous Americans of the 20th century." His book “Child and Care for him” was translated into more than 40 languages for half a century and only in English dispersed a circulation of 50 million copies, yielding among non -artistic books only a few religious and political texts. Nevertheless, the last months of the pediatrician life have been overshadowed by financial problems. In 1998, a few weeks before the death of a 94-year-old author, his second wife Mary Morgan Turned For help from friends and relatives - about $ 10,000 per month was required to pay for treatment and care for the elderly spoke. The spouse called their rented house in California "the only place where Ben can receive constant care, attention and love that support his life." In response from the Pocket Books Publishing House (at one time literally urging the doctor’s book) came a letter that said: “Dear Mrs. Spock! Could you postpone a little with public appeal regarding financial assistance to your spouse. Now the seventh edition of his book is being prepared for the exit, and a similar request in the midst of an advertising campaign can seriously damage its sales. ” Before the release of the publication, Benjamin Spock never lived. As for the children, the pediatrician really had two sons: Michael and John. Spock raised them not at all according to the canons of his revolutionary manual - Strictly and conservative, later admittingthat he never kissed his children. Did the sons spoke for the transfer of their father into a nursing home? Mary Morgan assertedthat yes, while she herself was against, despite the money difficulties. We will not recognize the full truth, but there were no refutations of her words. In the end, it should be noted that American nursing homes can hardly be called the establishments forgotten by God - often the most live in them. Star elderly people.

Another famous correspondence teacher - but already in the field of the so -called self -help - was Dale Carnegie, the author of the sensational book "How to win friends and influence people" and rows Similar bestsellers. According to biographer, in 1944, the 55-year-old Carnegie married for the second time in his life-for 32-year-old Dorothy Vanderpul. The couple healed a happy family life, the newlyweds traveled a lot together, and in 1951 they had a daughter of Donna, in which his father did not dull the soul.

Dale and Dorothy Carnegie with his daughter Donna, 1953

Soon after the birth of the daughter, Carnegie began in memory, which, as it turns out later, were signs of Alzheimer's disease. The ailment progressed, and by 1954 it came to the point that Dale needed constant care. Nevertheless, in the summer of 1955, he found the strength to perform at his native college at Missouri at the presentation of him the degree of Doctor of Sciences. However, this was the last lecture of Carnegie - soon he picked up a severe form of girdle lichen, then renal failure led to Uremia. The operation was unsuccessful, an infection penetrated into the American body, which caused a non -consuming fever. On November 1, 1955, Dale Carnegie died at home. In addition to uremia, among the official causes of Carnegie's death also It is listed Hodgkin lymphoma. The last days of Carnegie, according to the biographer, were definitely not lonely. He was at home with his beloved wife, as well as the best friend Homer Criem, who visited him daily. Condolences and flowers to the funeral of the "Messiah of self -help" came from all over the world.

We will go briefly on other points.

The author of the unique pedagogical system Maria Montessori really I gave it His child is in another family - but not in random, but on raising the distant relatives of the child’s father in the village. And the reason here was not at all in the purpose of Mary - just the child was born out of marriage, from a colleague, and in Catholic Italy of those times such behavior was considered a terrible sin. 15 years have passed, and Mario Montessori I found out who his real mother was, and two years later he reunited with her and since then became the closest assistant to the famous teacher, the successor of her case. Nevertheless, until the end of her days, Maria Montessori presented him to others as an adopted son.

Korean TV presenter and writer Choi Yong Hee, “preacher of happiness”, as she was called for motivational books, indeed It was found dead In October 2010, in a hotel room. And not one, but with her husband, who, as the police believed, before hanging himself, helped his wife to die. The reason, according to the dying note, was not depression, but pain and discomfort in connection with serious diseases of the heart and lungs.

The author of the bestseller "A slight way to quit smoking" Allen Carr really died of lung cancer. Perhaps this fact will not seem so amazing if knowthat at the age of 24, Allen Carr smoked 60 cigarettes per day, and at 48 years old, at the time of his strong -willed decision to tie with a pernicious habit after the next attack of coughing - all 100. It was after this that Carra's educational activity began. Moreover, in the 1990s, the author-to the horror of his friends and relatives-again began to smoke 60 cigarettes per day, but threw it easily, giving it all as a campaign for his new book, "The only way to quit smoking forever." Nevertheless, the prerequisites for the death in the case of Carr, obviously, were laid even before the beginning of his social mission.

The famous doctor Robert Atkins was not an ordinary nutritionist - he promoted Taking fatty and protein foods, believing that the main problems come with a large amount of carbohydrates, which should be avoided. In April 2003, 72-year-old Atkins slipped on the street, received a heavy traumatic brain injury and, after nine days of a coma, died in the hospital. There was a trauma Officially declared the cause of the death of the doctor, although the mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg is incorrect He called it The deceased "Tolstoy", doubting the results of the examination. His words, as well as those in the press intelligence About 117 kg at the time of the death of Atkins, a scandal was overwhelmed. Nevertheless, taking into account the results of weighing at the time of entering the hospital (88 kg), as well as the information that earlier Atkins suffered a “heart attack, congestive heart failure and hypertension”, the Snopes factory resource gave the question of the cause of Atkins' death verdict "It is not clear."

And finally. Shortly after the appearance of a viral publication in Runet, its “refutations” began to appear (for example, One, Other, third). It would seem that this is bad? But from these publications, we can find out that: Dale Carnegie “actually” shot himself alone, because he had long shunned people due to the “contagious” lymphoma of Hodgkin, and his wife faked a police report; $ 10,000 needed Benjamin Spock not to leave, but for the operation, only doctors were offered to send a pediatrician to the elderly house, and his son and grandson became drug addicts (the latter died from drugs); Maria Montessori took her son back at ten years old. There can be more harm from such “facts” of harm than benefits. Therefore, we strongly advise you to trust only publications with serious sources. And out of the seven facts we have verified, only three can be called truly true.