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No more medical questions...


Question Posted Thursday March 8 2012, 9:55 pm

Hi there,

I know you mean well when you write:

"Asking this question is asking for help. You don't have derpession."

... but you are NOT a doctor, and you can't legally make a diagnosis like that.

Do you have ANY idea how much trouble you could get into over that?

The rest of your answer was quite good, and I don't want you to stop answering questions, just stop giving answers that could REALLY hurt someone.

What if the person is clinically, medically depressed, and doesn't go to a doctor because they believed YOU? They go on through life till they can't take it and they kill themselves... all because they listened to you and didn't get the help they needed.

Do you understand what I am saying here?

Another example:

"If you haven't been successful with killing yourself yet, them your not going to."

A suicidal person would take that as a DARE.

You just dared someone to kill themselves. :-(

I know that isn't what you meant. I understand that you have had hard times yourself, and that in YOUR case this was the way things went... but everyone is different, and you must NOT tell someone else something like this, which could get them trying harder to kill themselves.

Basically, you make them sound like a failure for not trying hard enough.

I hope you understand what I am saying here.

You have 24 hours to respond and promise that your account will no longer be used to answer mental health and medical questions, or I am afraid I will have to close your account.

Thank you,

DnagerNerd.


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gotchalk8 answered Thursday March 8 2012, 10:07 pm:
Yes, I do understand what you were saying. My whole life has been concentrated around medical research. This includes mentally and physically. Everytime I visit a doctor I have tons of question for them and study the notes I take almost everyday. 3 years ago my dad got colitis and became depressed. When visiting the doctor they talked about the whole depression thing. When people are having a hard time and hate life, and when people have depression. My dad no longer has depression but if someone truly does have it, someone will notice. My family know exactly what I type to these people that are having hard times. I run it by my dad mostly because I really want to help these people. And also I hate it when people try to kill themselves, it makes me really mad so I wasn't very careful about my words when typing that.

Thanks.

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