--- 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.
