Reply #26: There are very few here on DU who are qualified to make those diagnoses. [View All]

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And that is the point, which I am *not* missing.

I said that I agree that people in power often show signs of "mental illness" in the sociopathic way they treat others, and that I would like to see that recognized. Some of us have been talking about that.

But to say that DUers without a license to practice have the right to use those terms to describe others is, to use a word on the list, absurd.