Keep It Real wrote:Perhaps your HOCD relates to the fact you worry about homosexuality, and don't find it very repulsive (neither do I) and so you fixate...because of your concern. Maybe you're not gay or bi.

Or maybe we're not qualified to provide advice on this and they should seek help?

Good luck in the UAE. He finds it embarrassing - thus the anonymity of the internet. Homophobia is a worldwide problem...anybody's input could be valuable - I doubt there are more than a dozen specialists in UAE.

Fallible wrote::picard:

You appear insensitive.

Keep It Real wrote:You appear insensitive.

Your comments in this thread appear foolish and misguided.

The OP needs help. They do not need us to indulge them. They need to be encouraged away from here to where help can be found. Fallible has already made that point and suggesting that someone get help is very opposite of insensitive.

And it doesn't matter if the OP is in the UAE or anywhere else in the world where getting this help might be challenging. We are not in a position to help them.

Sendraks wrote:
We are not in a position to help them.

The Royal we.

Keep It Real wrote:
The Royal we.

We meaning the membership of this forum.

Because nobody here has valuable life experience or qualifications in psychology. Gotcha.

Keep It Real wrote:Because nobody here has valuable life experience or qualifications in psychology. Gotcha.

Psychiatry dear chap. And we do actually have a psychiatrist here on the forums.

Sendraks wrote:

Keep It Real wrote:Because nobody here has valuable life experience or qualifications in psychology. Gotcha.

Psychiatry dear chap. And we do actually have a psychiatrist here on the forums.

I doubt medication could alleviate the problem.

Keep It Real wrote:

Fallible wrote::picard:

You appear insensitive.

No I don't. You just clearly have no fucking idea what you're talking about.

Keep It Real wrote:I doubt medication could alleviate the problem.

Nice non-sequitur.

Keep It Real wrote:Because nobody here has valuable life experience or qualifications in psychology. Gotcha.

Again, no fucking idea what you're talking about. Someone with vague 'life experience' and someone qualified in psychology pontificating and indulging someone's mental health issue are NOT helpful.

Keep It Real wrote:

Sendraks wrote:

Keep It Real wrote:Because nobody here has valuable life experience or qualifications in psychology. Gotcha.

Psychiatry dear chap. And we do actually have a psychiatrist here on the forums.

I doubt medication could alleviate the problem.

No one gives a shit about what you doubt, you've already made it abundantly clear you don't have the first clue about this issue.

Your infantile use of swear words indicates very precisely your value in this discourse.

Keep It Real - look at it another way. The majority of us are in no way qualified to provide help to someone with a mental health problem and public forums are a poor medium by which to provide such help.

Any help we might actually provide would be by accident, rather than by design and we're far more likely to do harm.

Keep It Real wrote:Your infantile use of swear words indicates very precisely your value in this discourse.

Your claim that the use of some words is somehow more infantile than others is fucking idiotic and does nothing to give you a shred of credibility in this discussion.

Sendraks wrote:Keep It Real - look at it another way. The majority of us are in no way qualified to provide help to someone with a mental health problem and public forums are a poor medium by which to provide such help.

Any help we might actually provide would be by accident, rather than design and we're far more likely to do harm.

Some of us are qualified, and I disagree that a forum is a bad medium within which to air those thoughts. I doubt harm is more likely than help if the spirit is correctly aligned.

Keep It Real wrote:Some of us are qualified,

I know of one person who is. Are you claiming to be another?

Keep It Real wrote:I disagree that a forum is a bad medium within which to air those thoughts. I doubt harm is more likely than help if the spirit is correctly aligned.

This is nothing more than wishful thinking on your part. I remember when Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimer's that he commented to the effect that (and I paraphrase) "while offers of help are noted with the sentiment they are intended, unless you're a qualified neurosurgeon, they're unlikely to do much good."