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I promise you, that is a harmful and completely untrue conspiracy theory. Please, please do not discourage people from seeking help. The people I know that go o
by JBReefer 10y ago
I promise you, that is a harmful and completely untrue conspiracy theory. Please, please do not discourage people from seeking help. The people I know that go on meds and get therapy have flourished, those afraid to - often because of half-truths like the above - have wasted their lives in emotional prisons.
- virmundi 10y agoI don't openly discourage people from seeking help. I do recommend anonymous groups and paying cash if possible. Try to keep things off the official rosters.
- psyc 10y agoThe fact that you may wind up in the FBI's NICS database is completely true. In this era, I'm not sure why a person would be confident about how that database will be used, now or in the future.
- tptacek 10y agoAt this point you're pretty close to arguing that people should be cautious about getting medical help of any kind, because all medical interventions create medical records that could be abused. That's in fact a rational concern (for instance: seeking medical help for a variety of symptoms, even if nothing is diagnosed, can impact your ability to get health insurance in the future), but we don't generally dignify the logical conclusion that people should avoid doctors as a result.
- psyc 10y agoI think it's a particularly troublesome loophole in the common expectation of medical privacy. A whole amendment in the bill of rights doesn't apply to you anymore, maybe because an ER doctor who doesn't know you wanted to play it safe. I think that's a lot to put at the discretion of a random doctor.