Anubis
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27 Jul 2007, 5:13 pm
RainSong wrote:
Aspiegirl89 wrote:
Postperson wrote:
Many psychiatrists are 'unstable' people, they are attracted to the field because they hope in some way to find out what their own problem is.
hahahahaha that is amazing; remind me never to see a shrink again. What's the point of going to one if they have the same thing I DO? lol. That's like paying someone to fix your Porsche and you find out that the rust-bucket sitting out in front is actually their car; not so comforting.
Some of them have learned to deal with it quite well. They passed their tests in order to become a pyschiatrist, correct? While some might be quite unstable, others are not. To judge them all based on your capabilites or on others who are featured in stories like this is simply unfair. They might be able to deal with the problems better, since they have first hand experince with them. Would you entrust your deepest terrors to someone who had no idea what terror was even like, who had only read about it? And since they have managed to overcome their problems, they should have an idea of how to help others.
Anyway, you have to understand mental illness to deal with it, to some extent, in the same way that you wouldn't let an Air Marshal command an air force without experiencing air combat first hand, or let a man counsel women on female-specific issues.
Pretty much, psychiatrists who have had minor mental issues may interact with people who have the same issues well, though you wouldn't want a dangerous psychopath helping you to overcome suicidal depression, especially one who says that you're worthless and pathetic.
27 Jul 2007, 6:09 pm
Anubis wrote:
RainSong wrote:
Aspiegirl89 wrote:
Postperson wrote:
Many psychiatrists are 'unstable' people, they are attracted to the field because they hope in some way to find out what their own problem is.
hahahahaha that is amazing; remind me never to see a shrink again. What's the point of going to one if they have the same thing I DO? lol. That's like paying someone to fix your Porsche and you find out that the rust-bucket sitting out in front is actually their car; not so comforting.
Some of them have learned to deal with it quite well. They passed their tests in order to become a pyschiatrist, correct? While some might be quite unstable, others are not. To judge them all based on your capabilites or on others who are featured in stories like this is simply unfair. They might be able to deal with the problems better, since they have first hand experince with them. Would you entrust your deepest terrors to someone who had no idea what terror was even like, who had only read about it? And since they have managed to overcome their problems, they should have an idea of how to help others.
Anyway, you have to understand mental illness to deal with it, to some extent, in the same way that you wouldn't let an Air Marshal command an air force without experiencing air combat first hand, or let a man counsel women on female-specific issues.
Pretty much, psychiatrists who have had minor mental issues may interact with people who have the same issues well, though you wouldn't want a dangerous psychopath helping you to overcome suicidal depression, especially one who says that you're worthless and pathetic.
Ha, I completely missed that; thank you for catching it. (In mine own weak defense, I could barely see the screen when I wrote it. The glare from the sun was quite distracting. Still, that's no excuse. I'll go write their tests a couple hundred times now.
) Postperson wrote:
If you're not responding to my post, then why quote it?
I was responding mostly to the post after (ie, the other post that I quoted - the one with your quote inside it). I'm frequently too lazy to erase the post that was originally quoted.
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