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@fmf said
That was a point blank answer.

To your own question. Not the one I put to you.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
No. It's because I'm not a qualified psychiatrist. Clients are referred to our service when they are already 'in the system' and have a diagnosis.....Obviously.

Edit: FMF says I'm not a 'professional' and yourself that I'm 'not qualified.' You are both incorrect. I am a mental health professional and I am qualified for the work I do in mental health. (This work does not involve diagnosing people or prescribing medication).

So you admit that your role as (whatever it is you are) supporting a team of qualified mental health professionals lends you no more credence to say Suzianne’s claim about me bridging Russ is not delusional, than me saying it is delusional?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
To your own question. Not the one I put to you.

You are mistaken.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
I think you have lost the plot at this point. - I work in mental health and you don't think my work gives me any insight into delusions. In contrast, you 'don't' work in mental health and yet feel at liberty to pigeon hole somebody as delusional.

As I said, I don't think your personal opinions about posters here on this message board are "verified" in any way by what your day job is.

@divegeester said
So you admit that your role as (whatever it is you are) supporting a team of qualified mental health professionals lends you no more credence to say Suzianne’s claim about me bridging Russ is not delusional, than me saying it is delusional?

Who claimed you were 'bridging' Russ?

Edit: I have more insight than you into the appropriate use of 'delusional.'

@ghost-of-a-duke said
I think you have lost the plot at this point. - I work in mental health and you don't think my work gives me any insight into delusions.

I don't think your day job has any bearing on what you choose to say on this forum when you openly talk about having that person's back, something you have essentially conceded makes you partisan and inconsistent. The only principle I think that's in play here is your loyalty.

@fmf said
As I said, I don't think your personal opinions about posters here on this message board are "verified" in any way by what your day job is.

And more to the point, not verified by the work you do.

Edit: Your own argument is that nobody here (even if working in mental health) is in the position to say whether another poster is or is not delusional.

Well, that includes you too, doesn't it?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
And more to the point, not verified by the work you do.

Unlike you, I don't claim my opinion is "verified". You either agree with it or you don't. I don't think your job has anything whatsoever to do with you covering for your online friend.

@fmf said
Unlike you, I don't claim my opinion is "verified". You either agree with it or you don't. I don't think your job has anything whatsoever to do with you covering for your online friend.

See my edit.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
I have more insight than you into the appropriate use of 'delusional.'

And yet you are unable to speak about its "appropriate use" if posters like Suzianne and others use it.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Your own argument is that nobody here (even if working in mental health) is in the position to say whether another poster is or is not delusional.

My argument is that Suzianne sometimes makes delusional claims. If you don't think she does, so be it.

@fmf said
And yet you are unable to speak about its "appropriate use" if posters like Suzianne and others use it.

Delusional has been used incorrectly by everybody in this thread, including Suzianne. It is one of those words that has seeped into every day use. (Like paranoid or OCD).

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Well, that includes you too, doesn't it?

It is your prerogative to disagree with how I describe her occasional fantasist tales.

@fmf said
My argument is that Suzianne sometimes makes delusional claims. If you don't think she does, so be it.

I don't think you have sufficiently evidenced that she has.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Delusional has been used incorrectly by everybody in this thread, including Suzianne.

She has been calling me delusional for years. You have never ever commented on it.