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Tetro Kornbluth
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« on: October 08, 2014, 07:00:40 AM »

Ummm... he's clearly has something that begins with 'a' and ends with 'm'. I don't see how anyone can see otherwise and he's being a fool for not trying to seek medical help about it.
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Tetro Kornbluth
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« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2014, 10:05:45 AM »

Ameriscam, Gully?  Don't be so dainty.......spell it out big guy.

Ummm... he's clearly has something that begins with 'a' and ends with 'm'.

Autodidactism?  That would explain how he became an expert on the use of his CADD software without the formal instruction.


Oh do f-ck off, I thought your defense for your favourite freak-show was that a) this was a place to give Bushie advice (which is hilarious as most advice here is terrible) and b) that it 'provided insight into Middle America blah blah' (which is, if isn't obvious by now, a blatant LIE, transparently false and ridiculous. Bushie is not representative of anything in America, ffs he's barely employable). I'm actually trying to suggest root causes to problems and potential solutions and of course I get nothing but withering sneers for a 50+ year old man whose hobbies include misogyny and watching a fat mentally disabled slowly kill himself and an Australian concern troll whose confuses mocking sarcasm with meaningful content. Granted that I don't expect much sympathy with atlas knowledge of mental health being close to atlas knowledge of nutrition ("You've got to cut the carbs, Bushie") but I would like you remove your sanctimonious pretense that update isn't about anything other than mockery, mockery over the transparently mentally disabled.

Sorry to interrupt your sneering at this freak show by trying to establish some facts, or at least meaningful hypothesis. You can get back to your smug sense of superiority now. You've clearly earned it.

So far the Update psychiatrists have diagnosed autism, obsessive compulsive disorder, the bipolar, obsessive–compulsive personality disorder, attention deficit disorder, and histrionic personality disorder. Am I forgetting any?

So you prefer your folk psychological meanderings... in the name of what may I ask. "Bushie needs to work harder", "Bushie needs to stop being so lazy", "Bushie needs to stop watching so much TV" ad nauseum... without wondering why indeed that might be the case. Instead various character defects that if he worked hard enough he could overcome. And probably there's some truth in that, but it also ignores trying to understand the person as he actually is, not as we wish to be.

Anyway as I've repeated many times, I think Bushie should see an psychiatrist - an actual professional. My diagnosis is, of course, premature but I don't think it unreasonable, given my knowledge of experience of people with that condition, I'd say it's quite likely that he does indeed have it and there have been many giveaways here that that indeed is the case. What Bushie doesn't need is further exhibitionism where various amused and sneering gawkers give him 'advice' based on variously contrived narratives that come merely from cultural prejudice. It's a good thing he ignores you all - because he'd be in an even worse state if he didn't.
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Tetro Kornbluth
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« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2014, 10:14:13 AM »

Ummm... he's clearly has something that begins with 'a' and ends with 'm'. I don't see how anyone can see otherwise and he's being a fool for not trying to seek medical help about it.

Surprising that you want to give him a diagnosis. Haven't you been arguing that autism (and lots of other psychological disorders) are massively overdiagnosed? Tongue

I take back some of my earlier anti-psych views having reviewed some of the evidence more (Isn't that what we all do, right?) although there is clearly overdiagnosis of psychiatric conditions in certain areas, or rather confused diagnosis because of the tendency of psychiatric categories to seep into each other thus it is difficult in many cases to define where 'ASD' begins and 'ADHD' ends. Many sufferers from such clearly defined mental conditions or abnormalities have more than one so it's frequently very difficult to know how to treat such a thing when the nosology is somewhat of a makeshift structure (and then there is the separate issue of whether psychiatric medicine actually works than a placebo or not but that's a different matter. The same holds true btw for the various forms of talk therapy).

These issues of course apply to Bushie. Here though I'm using a term that people would understand clearly and unambigiously (it's why we need a nosology) because I think it is urgent in Bushie's case if he wants to stop on the path towards a very early death. Unfortunately I see no evidence that Bushie is even aware that that is where he is heading which part of the reason why I think he needs outside assistance. Bushie is hardly alone in being a person who trusts himself too much.
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Tetro Kornbluth
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« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2014, 05:57:18 PM »

Am I the only one finding a bunch of forum users trying to come up with a medical diagnosis for a man they never even meet a bit silly?

No more sillier than anything else that has ever happened in Update.
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