Actually it is the other way around - anyone can state whatever they like about other people mental state (and suffer the consequences if the statements are def

Actually it is the other way around - anyone can state whatever they like about other people mental state (and suffer the consequences if the statements are defamatory), only the US practicing members of American Psychiatric Association are forbidden by their association to diagnose people that are not their patients - the so called Goldwater Rule. I like Stallman, and even if he is mad as a hatter and offends the whole progressive world - he is still right about the only thing about him that interests me - his opinion and work on software freedom and privacy.