Is it normal I get annoyed when people say "I need professional help?"

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  • Even if you don't think you can be "saved", others can. The best people can do here is give advice. But I don't think anybody here is qualified to handle some of the more serious posts. In those cases, telling them to see a professional is the best and only advice we can give. Either that, or we try to diagnose something serious based on a couple of paragraphs, which is wrong on so many levels.

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    • No offense, but I'd rather seek guidance from people who don't charge me to speak with them, load me up with meds and send me on my way under the guise of "professional psychology."

      And how do you know that others can be "saved." Are these shrinks doing Jesus' work now? We all know how doctors love to play god. Apparently that applies to the head shrinkers too.

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      • Ah! A fellowe time traveller from the distante past, I see! Verily, paye no heed to the guidance of ostensible "professionals", parading their "education" and "licenses" and such arrant poppycock! The reasoning is cleare: they coulde not helpe you, thus they cannot possibly helpe anybody! If only these moderne soi-disant medical practioneres newe to simply place a single leech on the forehead to cure such maladies of the minde!

        Even though you quarrel with my lovely Lady Banana, I very muche appreciate your dedicatione to fighting againste "logic", "science", and a person's abilitye to be helped in the manner theye require!

        Signed,

        Sir Reginald Fisticuffs III

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        • You're my favorite new person. Hope you stick around :)

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        • Dude, what are you smoking? Can I have some?

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        • Once you lose the lame gimmick I might take you serious enough to afford you a reply.

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      • Well it doesn't really look like you'd rather seek guidance from people who don't charge, because I just gave you it, and you're still acting like a bitch. What do you want?!

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      • First of all, You used the word "saved" and bananaface was quoting that, so I'm not sure why you're being so snarky about it.

        Secondly, I can attest to the "some people can be saved" claim. When I was 11, I was extremely depressed and suicidal. If it hadn't been for my therapy and medication, I have no doubt that I would've committed suicide. Different psychiatrists and therapists are different, of course, but I never got the impression that my doctor or my therapist were arrogant or trying to play god. I got angry at them sometimes (as one does in therapy), but most of what they did was listen and occasionally sort of poke me in the right direction.

        I'm 22 now, and doing much better.

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