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[+ Lucky]

RE: Are there any psychiatrists in the house?

 

"Woodlawn, in essence, uses this message center as his therpaist's couch. He has been coming here for years, almost on a daily basis, and parading himself around and exposing himself for all to see."

 

doug, for a newcomer you sure know a lot about the history of this board. Just the other day you were quoting from a very old thread that appeared long before you had registered. So why don't you just add some credibility to your posts and tell us what handle you used to post under?

[woodlawn]

RE: Are there any psychiatrists in the house?

 

>I often speculate, as do most of us here, based on my

>experience. That would include theater, Reiki and Body

>Electric training. Woodie often complains that I am trying to

>speak like a psychiatrist, when he and I both know that I am

>not trained to be a psychiatrist. Now he has done it with

>someone else. And the habit is growing. I noticed someone else

>making that same kind of remark about someone else this

>morning. Now, while it does seem like Woodie is of a mind that

>anyone hiring an escort would meet with a psychiatrist's

>disapproval, that is not always the subject at hand when he

>points out that I am not one.

 

You're confused again, Bilbo. The point I've made time and again is simple enough that anyone ought to be able to get it. It's the fashion on this message board (and not only here) for people who have no qualifications whatsoever for diagnosing mental illness to trash anyone who disagrees with them by claiming his behavior must be due to some particular mental illness or emotional problem. That nasty little hatemonger Doug69, who just crawled out from under his rock in response to your post, is a great example.

 

How do I know that none of the people who do this is actually a psychiatrist? Let's say I pay people in that profession the compliment of assuming they'd never misuse their professional knowledge in that way. You think I'm being too optimistic here?

 

You're also confused when you claim I think a psychiatrist would never approve of hiring an escort. I've never said as much because I have no idea whether it's true or not. Quit making shit up and pretending it comes from me, would you?

 

>It has happened in the past that I have mentioned that during

>my one escapade with the police, I felt that I had been

>"entrapped." It has been pointed out that I am using a legal

>term incorrectly. (I think that it was Woodie who did so.) And

>there have been at times a chorus of lawyers commenting on

>that exchange.

 

I do have a concern about your habit of using the term "entrapment" to make your arrest seem illegal or improper. My concern is that you may give other people the false impression that they needn't worry about being caught in a sting operation like the one that got you because if they are they can slide out from under the charge by claiming they were entrapped. A run-of-the-mill vice sting operation like the one that snared you is NOT entrapment, and if you keep telling people it is you may be blinding them to a very real danger. Do you really want to do that?

 

 

(There are also other threads where lawyers

>have commented on the law.) However, I never remember a time

>when Woodie, or anyone else, commented on a psychiatric matter

>and anyone who was in that field commented on the exchange.

 

I've pointed out before that this question you keep raising is based on the assumption that there are psychiatrists who read this board. I don't know that there are. Whether there are or not, you should understand that lawyers are trained to give legal opinions based on a hypothetical set of facts they are given, and so are seldom reluctant to do that. I've been told that a reputable psychiatrist, on the other hand, will usually be most reluctant to comment on the mental state of anyone he hasn't actually interviewed. Seems reasonable to me.

[Bilbo]

RE: Are there any psychiatrists in the house?

 

I haven't asked anyone who is in the mental health care profession to comment on anyone's mental health. I, like you, might find that to throw some doubt on whether they are actually in that field or not. I have merely asked, two or three times, if there are any here in that field who are offended by either A. my remarks, coming from other disciplines but seeming to you to be masquerading as having come from their field or B. your defence of them which seems designed merely to stifle discussion. Please don't blame me if we have instead received unsolicited comments on your mental health. If you do so, you are the one in danger of putting words into someone else's mouth - mine. (And do note that I have gone on record as saying that you have been known to listen to reason. And I believe that that is the closest I have come personally to speculating on your mental health recently.)

 

I have come to the conclusion that either there is A. only one mental health care professional here, one who doesn't seem to mind what either of us say, thus leaving me to say what I wish or B. as you seem to me to suggest, there are no mental health care professionals here, in which case I can say what I wish without offending them, or C. there are mental health care professionals lurking here, but they are not offended enough by either of us to make themselves known, in which case I am free to say what I wish.

 

Please note in the future:

 

A. I am a trained and seasoned actor. I have been on the live stage for 35 years and have an M.F.A. in acting. One thing that actors do is to make informed speculations as to motivations. When I make a specualtion as to someone's motivations, I can be speaking as an actor, not as a psychiatrist.

 

B. I also am a CAM (complimentary/alternative medicene) health care practitioner, recognized as such by the IRS. One facet of this is Reiki. I am a Reiki Master and a Reiki Master Teacher in the Unlimited Reiki linneage. As such, I help people clear their chakras and I help them heal, harmonize and balance their spiritual and emotional selves. I am not the equal of a Western-medicene psychologist in my own mind, and I do not pretend to speak as one. I am, however, trained in an Eastern tradition which functions along many of the same lines.

 

C. I am an ordained minister.

 

Therefore, I am fully qualified to say what I say. As myself, not as a psychiatrist. That is my path. I try to honor your path, as well. So you, too, are free to say what you damn well please. And I am sure that you will be interested in answering this post in detail. I should warn you, however, that I will not read it if you do. I try to know the bounds of my strengths and I would not guarantee you a civilized answer should I read it. I also have a strong suspicion that I inherited a tendency towards high blood preassure from my Mother. So I couldn't guarantee that reading it would be good for my health, either.

 

And, yes, Rick, the old girl does blather on, doesn't she? }(

[woodlawn]

RE: Are there any psychiatrists in the house?

 

>"Woodlawn, in essence, uses this message center as his

>therpaist's couch. He has been coming here for years, almost

>on a daily basis, and parading himself around and exposing

>himself for all to see."

 

>doug, for a newcomer you sure know a lot about the history of

>this board. Just the other day you were quoting from a very

>old thread that appeared long before you had registered.

 

 

Well, I knew you wouldn't miss that telltale clue, you old brainbox, you!

 

But you forgot to tell Scumbag up there that in spite of "years" of "exposing" myself none of you knows any more about me than you did when I started.

 

>So

>why don't you just add some credibility to your posts and tell

>us what handle you used to post under?

 

Why bother to ask? Given the stupidity of his posts, even having them countersigned by the entire faculty of Harvard wouldn't add any credibility.

[woodlawn]

RE: Are there any psychiatrists in the house?

 

>Therefore, I am fully qualified to say what I say. As myself,

>not as a psychiatrist. That is my path. I try to honor your

>path, as well. So you, too, are free to say what you damn well

>please. And I am sure that you will be interested in answering

>this post in detail. I should warn you, however, that I will

>not read it if you do. I try to know the bounds of my

>strengths and I would not guarantee you a civilized answer

>should I read it. I also have a strong suspicion that I

>inherited a tendency towards high blood preassure from my

>Mother. So I couldn't guarantee that reading it would be good

>for my health, either.

 

I am not going to answer your post in detail. I will say only two things. First, you have always been free (so far as I'm concerned) to post any opinions you wish here. Just as I and others are free (so far as I'm concerned) to give our opinions of your opinions. That is the part you seem to have a problem with. Second, this is not the first time you have chosen to enter a conversation between me and some other person or persons and, having said what you wanted, stalked off with the remark that your "health" won't let you participate further. If certain subjects are too upsetting for you to discuss, perhaps you ought to ask yourself why you keep bringing them up.