Jimmy2shoes

*...you can accept the opinion of a professional based on extensive real life experience or you can can keep your own opinion based on nothing except the need to put labels on something you have little knowledge and experience of...*

At the least, Plantagenet backed down on his criticisms of posters who have obviously more experience, which shows in their opposition to the offerings of the two authors, with their vague and unrealistic, untested and illegal drugs as a remedy towards depression.

The police should round this pair up.

Goodbye Jimmy2shoes. Best of British with your own version of ignorance!

Dan.

accept the opinion of a professional based on extensive real life experience
jimmy2shoes,
Well, that's open to debate for experience of a professional in real life may not fit the term real life for others.
It is a well-known fact that professionals live in their own world somewhat distanced from yhe real world of everyday people.

Im fairly sure you cant get more "real world" experience than actually interviewing and case managing the individuals concerned. Im guessing offering your opinion from an armchair with no direct experience is your version of knowledge. Some of you posters on this forum appear to be a little threatened .

jimmy2shoes,
I once witnessed an 'expert' at a health facility interviewing my friend's daughter because she apparently had mental issues.
What it was, her boyfriend gave her the flick because everything was about her & so, when he left she threw a tantrum.
Her mother asked me to accompany them & so I did & listened in. The waffling on became too much for me & I stood up & told my friend's daughter to stop putting on an act & also told the 'expert' to stop playing into her hands & I left the room.
Ten minutes later, the women came out & the mother said thank you for seeing through the nonsense & the daughter apologised for putting it on.
The expert apparently went all flustered & told them the consultation was over.
I'm not saying all incidents are like that but I'm convinced a great number of them are !

We all have stories about so called experts who turned out not to be so, this can occur in any field. Im not denying that there are plenty of psychologists with University degrees and little real life experience who can easily be manipulated. Im not one of them.
Some of the comments in this thread are quite facile, denying the fact of mental illness for example. Does anyone really think that someone blows their own brains out with a shotgun because they arent depressed? Really? Clinical depression is very real and is getting worse in our society, denying the existence of it is simply contributing to the problem.

Well said jimmy2shoes (where you say directly above):

"Some of the comments in this thread are quite facile, denying the fact of mental illness for example."

Serious mental illnesses often involve LIFETIME PHYSICAL IMBALANCES OF CHEMICALS IN THE BRAIN.

At the minimum these need to be handled by targeted medications prescribed by a psychiatrist and then a GP is required to keep the prescriptions going for as long as needed.

Pschologists have a role to - in making the patient recognise the patient has a serious problem that needs fixing.