Tammy sez:
It is funny to me how some people think that they can diagnose mental illness over the internet... (all without a licence to practice psychology/psychiatry)... simply because they don't believe something is possible.
It's funny how many people show signs and symptomology of mental illness in daily life, and how it even comes across the internet in the messages they post.
BTW, I AM a licensed health-care provider in my State (an eye doc), and one of the things I learned during my training 20 yrs ago was that 10% of the population show symptomology suggestive of mental illness; only a small portion are actually diagnosed, and even fewer are treated. Point to us was that we should be careful in dealing with the general public, as you never know which pts will turn out to be sociopaths/psychotics who decide that YOU are the cause of all of their problems, and decide to kill you. That goes for ANYONE who's out in public: something to consider before you flip off the guy in the car who cut you off....
Even when practicing eye-care, my goal is not to diagnose mental illness: it's not why they're in MY chair (and I'm not licensed to practice mental health: that's the WHOLE REASON we have specialists in different fields! Psychologists don't remove glass embedded in the eye, and I don't treat psychoses, LOL!).
There are SOME cases where the chief complaint that brought them to my chair MAY be related to their mental health, many pts will complain of eye problems which are not due to observable pathology (AKA ocular disease or conditions), but MAY be psychological in their origins. In fact, I gave you a PERFECT example in the other thread of the gang member who was convinced the gang implanted a bug behind his eyeball. Then my responsibility is to rule out ocular disease, but then to refer them to mental health providers who can make a definitive diagnosis (where all of my suspicions are only preliminary: I refer the pt to them with a "rule out" diagnosis).
That's my responsibility (PLUS, I can be sued for failure to do so!), and you'd better believe I take it seriously.
Flipside is I don't haunt forums LOOKING for such, either. That's liability I don't assume unless I'm getting PAID!
(Compare that to Xian faith healers, who do what I'd NEVER dare to do: claim to treat someone, based on faith, LOL!)
Many think they're fine and won't seek help. Many people around them don't even think they have a problem and won't do anything about it until the mental illness acually progresses to the dangerous levels, but then again seemingly sane people have drowned thei kids because the voice told them so - by that point it's too late for help.
Yup, that's what I was trying to say, but you made the point better. Thanks. ;)
I mean Really? Delusion overrides the science that may explain mass?
If you've never seen Mike Judge's prophetic movie, Idiocracy, you should check it out.
Frankly, I thought he was FAR TOO CONSERVATIVE of the time-line for it coming true: I'd dare say we're already there, and Xians will be the ones ushering us there even quicker than expected. :)
Likewise, scientists typically dislike the name "God particle." The basic God
concept is a personal choice about faith or as a philsophical concern (I'd recom-
mend M. Adler) outside the scope of what the finding shows.
Of course, you MUST be aware that the name was dubbed by the media as a method to sell more papers, AKA trolling the general public for fun AND profit. The particle doesn't attempt to explain or disprove God's existence: that's a popular urban legend that (surprise!) xians have picked up with a relish, since it fits into their "science is evil!" beliefs.
Higgs Boson particle got that name because one of the scientists looking for it was extremely frustrated, and began referring to it as "that God-damned!" particle. Although truncated (to remove it's possibly offensive nature, albeit making things even MORE offensive to xians in the process), the nick-name stuck.
