Then please learn your own lesson. If you know so much about psychotherapy, then you know it is worthless if the subject doesn't want it.
>When I mentioned that Marta and Tully should seek help for
>their hyper-emotionalism regarding Terri Schiavo, I meant it
>in good faith, not as a flame.
LOL So was your post just prior to the "get help" post, the one about "someone having too much time" also intended to be helpful?
>However, Marta's attachment to the western medical practice
>of drugging away the symptoms IS something I find seriously
>disturbing, considering that the benzodiazepines she specifically
>mentioned:
More unrequested "help," eh? Perhaps you should flip thru your DSM4 to find the listings under "addiction" as you appear to have a problem here. See how helpful I can be?
The urls you mentioned were describing people who abuse the drug to get high, not people who really need that drug to prevent muscle contractions or seizures. One of your articles even said the drug was very non-toxic.
For you to say something like this to Marta simply goes beyond the pale. I hadn't realized that such a thing as health privilege could exist, until now.
--tully