Those in the mental health field will admit that they do not even consider the possibility someone is sane or rational. They start with the assumption that the person they are talking is mentally ill, and try to form a diagnosis from there!!
Imagine if the police assumed everyone they questioned was a serial killer and believed their only job was to match at least one cold case to that person.
This is how the mental health system works. Avoid it. Teach others to avoid it.
If I had the power, I would diagnose everyone in the mental health field with delusional disorder.
Mental health docs assume there’s something because you’re seeing them. You, or someone else, has enough concern about your mental health for you to be in their presence.
For the same reasons, ER docs tend to assume you’re sick in some way.
Are they always right? No. Are they never right? Also no.
>A sane smart person given the options of: persisting on a trivial truth OR not being sent to a psychiatric ward, must always pick the second one.
> Smart people know what a psychiatric ward is, a sane perso recognizes a serious threat when confronted with one.
Lying is a mortal sin. I try to avoid sin, even if doing so seriously harms me.
Plato said something like: "All sin is a form of mental illness that seems to make one or a few people better off in the short term but makes all humans poorer in the long run."
I very much dislike lies, do not want to lie and would rather tell the truth even if it may harm me, but I'm not sure about the absoluteness of such an approach. A few days ago I was reading a book about a christian family helping Jews during WW II (Corrie ten Boom) and I was quite lost when Corrie marveled at the realization she doesn't have to do what the authorities say, or when she lied to the police. I would like to believe telling the truth would be better, but .. it seems suspect. Telling Nazi Jews are hiding in my house .. very much not sure what to think about that.
Note for casual readers: We are not here to live a comfy life, so, even if saying the truth leads to bodily mortal consequences for another, I can't with 100% certainty say lying would be the right thing to do.
It seems to me, there are cases when even God used / instructed Jews to use deception or something very close to it, to scare off attackers or make them kill eachother in a frenzy (different times), so I am dumbfounded on what is right.
Even God puts Himself behind a veil, for our benefit, so going around pushing truth for the sake of truth can not be correct. That would be one extreme. But I'm not sure what the criteria is.
Do you have any thoughts, or basis on criteria, when is volunteering truth / answering truthfully if asked / refusing to answer / deceiving / lying good or not. Or maybe even what is to be considered lying?
(He did. He follows me, too; it was back in the days of auto-follow-back scripts.)
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