Your friend asked that question as a joke, eh? Well that is NOT ok. MANY people have already seen that question and your answer by doing google searches and ending up there.
You answer a question once, but always remember that you are really answering it for everyone who will ever come there.
Some questions on this site have been seen by over 500,000 people over the course of almost 10 years.
Now, I am going to ask one more time:
I understand that you have been around this.
I need you to understand that it does not matter. Unless you are a doctor, you can NOT issue a diagnosis.
Are we clear on this?
Maybe some day you will finish medical school, and we would love to have you here then also... but for now, you must not get angry and choose your words unwisely in situation with people who are depressed and/or suicidal.
You were mad about me telling a depressed person the wrong things, now that you know that is not the case I should be able to give medical advice. The only things I have told people to do for sickness is all natural. Even if I was wrong it wouln't hurt them. And ya I'm not a doctor, but I wasn't giving a real diagnosis. [ gotchalk8's advice column | Ask gotchalk8 A Question ]
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