Stingray

Depends on your country .... here CBT is organised in a 'center', they are also active in Universitary Hospitals. The quaks are everywhere, really. I don't know about your strange countries though ...

If anything, that stuff will get me even less votes :-)

CBT is currently the ONLY evidence based intervention. I use it myself when I coach. I'd so go for that. Also, try avoiding meds if you are not feeling out of control. ps: Ask if they are using evidence based protocols for your intervention. You have a right to do that.

They can be both. It is your orientation when training as a psychologist (others train in a more scientific role). after that they continue to med school to become a psychiatrist. So it is not a title, it is an 'orientation' - school of thought (you also have behaviourists, rogerians, system therapists, cognitive behavioural therapists - those guys can all be psychologists/psychiatrists). You'll see: if he starts 1. the sofa - run 2. invites you to talk without saying something - run 3. ask about the relation with your mother/father - run 4. Dreams - run 5. Rorschach tests - run

Nah, that would make you hate me

Ow rubadub! Happy for you mate!

Ow great ... so that Ph.d. got me a 'funny man' award on TC? I'll shut up now

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And it had to be in the category wanted to win in? What am I - the Joker?

One HUGE advice. I am dead dead serious here, Spike. Do NOT let yourself be diagnosed by a psychoanalyst. NOT. Those guys are quaks, frauds without ANY empirical underpinning to their claims. Ask for their theoretical background and eave if it is Frued, Lacan, Jung or any of those guys. Must read: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/comm/steen/cogweb/Debate/SokalFNCh1.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashionable_Nonsense http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/dawkins.html The guys who love math are going to have a fieldday with Lacan's mathematical bullshit. If you want to see the severity of it .... this is essential. See it in action and weep. http://www.supportthewall.org/2011/12/watch-the-wall-le-mur-by-sophie-robert/

Ow comon .... man balls you bite off in the blink of an eye and one little nipple scares you?

Feel AWESOME!!!!! Just completely did a Champions League Hazardous Hattrick at the job. Hell yes, mister big shot CEO multinational man .... you know you need me! Of course you can hire me for your strategic plan, but it gonna cost you if you want me to join you to China. Sorry for the rant :-) Bit bipolar, but on the good side.

Ah that's Kryptonite for you hey Lassie! Hint: you need to twist her nipples really hard! Then a headbut and finish her off with your knee.

Also .. have you seen he calls me crazier than drunk Scots! What the fuck is that!

It is a dilemma, really. You see, @Jype voted for in the general knowledge thread, but @Rmpr didn't (that traitor !!! he should be hanged to the highest tree for that) But, @Jype voted against me in the funiest member thread, @Rmpr voted for me .... So the jury is still out on this one. I will await the proceedings of the awards ....

De-man him, like you did to me. You'll be fine - just crush his balls.

There were instances though: 1. eg Camus (philosopher) claimed that asking the question: why should i not commit suicide is the only fundamental philosophical question. Those guys back then were going on about the absurdity of life (existentialism it is called). 2. The romantic period (Goethe eg.) that , well, romanticised suicide and suffering. 3. Cults that commit suicide collectively (some a little more forced than others) These schools of thought had an impact an led to voluntary suicides. Of course ..... This was really pretty much mass hysteria and copycat behaviour .....

Of course. You silly haggis!

Call me Stingay once more ....

Lets hope it is indeed bullshit ....

No more likes , mate - but I love that as well ....

And how would you call someone that chooses to die like that: you said without suffering from depression or any other form of mental disorder. not without suffering from anything Big difference, dude.

Yes, It is legal here and it happens. In serious pain and incurable, terminal condition. It gets judged by multiple doctors, an ethical committee, family and of course the person itself (which is the main goal - autonomy of an individual in such a crucial stage of life). Palliative sedation, is more and more considered to be the pure choice of a doctor governed regularly by economical factors- without consent from a patient - which we (belgium) deem more and more unethical. So yes - and it is not at all odd actually. Humane - very much.

My favorite .... Such an EPIC scene. Jesus rocks!!!