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> Yes, but he's profoundly mentally ill. He (seemingly) has, at least, borderline personality disorder and possibly NPD. Please don't make armchair diagnoses

by dsacco 9y ago

> Yes, but he's profoundly mentally ill. He (seemingly) has, at least, borderline personality disorder and possibly NPD. Please don't make armchair diagnoses of people like this. I think you need to seriously reconsider how appropriate it is to make cavalier declarations of another person's mental health in a public forum. Even if you were a clinically trained professional, making this assertion on a message board would be baseless speculation. EDIT: I find the flippancy with which you're commenting in this entire subthread to be demeaning and inconsiderate. Please step back for a moment and understand that you're extrapolating speculative diagnoses from observations you have not made in a clinical setting. You're pontificating about someone's mental health despite the fact that you cannot possibly be informed about it.

mjburgess 9y ago
Yes, but we are only in a comment thread on HN and talking about a celebrity who can be in no possible danger from anything I am saying. > making this assertion on a message board would be baseless speculation. Yes, its speculation. But arent we exactly on a message board where we are speculating? Isnt this whole conversation, from the OP article itself, a game of speculation? Why refrain from speculating about the mental health of a person? You seem to be repeating good-natured pablum which applies, of course, when dealing with specific vulnerable people who could be affected by such speculation. In this case, certainly, it would be bad. But we're not in that case. Its entirely reasonable to make a judgement about the mental health of other people, in the course of assessing their life. > You're pontificating about someone's mental health despite the fact that you cannot possibly be informed about it. Yes, like every person in this thread on every topic in this thread. Speculation isn't bad in itself. It's pretty necessary in the course of discussing a topic. I am not diagnosing anyone. I am speculating about a diagnosis for the purpose of illustrating problems I believe Tom Cruize may have: so what?

by dsacco 9y ago

mjburgess 9y ago

Yes, but we are only in a comment thread on HN and talking about a celebrity who can be in no possible danger from anything I am saying. > making this assertion on a message board would be baseless speculation. Yes, its speculation. But arent we exactly on a message board where we are speculating? Isnt this whole conversation, from the OP article itself, a game of speculation? Why refrain from speculating about the mental health of a person? You seem to be repeating good-natured pablum which applies, of course, when dealing with specific vulnerable people who could be affected by such speculation. In this case, certainly, it would be bad. But we're not in that case. Its entirely reasonable to make a judgement about the mental health of other people, in the course of assessing their life. > You're pontificating about someone's mental health despite the fact that you cannot possibly be informed about it. Yes, like every person in this thread on every topic in this thread. Speculation isn't bad in itself. It's pretty necessary in the course of discussing a topic. I am not diagnosing anyone. I am speculating about a diagnosis for the purpose of illustrating problems I believe Tom Cruize may have: so what?