authfriend wrote: > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> authfriend wrote: >> >>> --- In [email protected], Peter <drpetersutphen@> >>> > wrote: > >>> >>> >>>> Dude, with all respect, you need to be back on your >>>> Seroquel. I kid you not. You have symptoms of a mild >>>> psychosis. >>>> >>>> >>> Unethical *in the extreme* for a mental health >>> professional to publically attempt a diagnosis >>> of psychopathology via someone's posts on a Web >>> forum, *especially* as a putdown. >>> >>> And that's what it was, a putdown. If Peter had >>> been seriously concerned for the person's mental >>> health, he could have communicated with him >>> privately. >>> >>> This is utterly inexcusable. >>> >> Big deal! Everyone here knows Willie is a nutcase. You >> should from all your years on AMT. >> > > Well, no, I don't actually know if he has a psychosis, > and neither does anybody else (including Peter). I'm > strongly inclined to believe, in fact, that he does > all the crazy-appearing stuff quite deliberately just > to annoy everybody--i.e., he's a troll. I don't see > any hint that he isn't fully in touch with consensus > reality; he just likes to pretend the rest of us > aren't in touch with it. It's a game with him. > > Being a total jerk doesn't necessarily mean you're > psychotic. > > But even if he WERE psychotic, it would STILL be > unethical for Peter to deliver that diagnosis > publically, and ESPECIALLY for the purpose of venting > his frustration--because he's a credentialed > professional, and his word therefore carries much > more weight than anything the rest of us might say. I don't agree. I certainly didn't take Peter's comment as a diagnosis but a casual aside. You don't like Peter because he is critical of TM and so you jumped on him. That is your normal MO around here.
If Willie is faking it then he has been wasting a lot of his energy.... for years. But then I call this the Funny Farm Lounge and everyone must be nuts here. Must be all those cell towers. :)
