Nor I you. I have my own experiences as a business manager, but I'm pretty sure that those experiences aren't large enough for me to generalize. I don't know how much experience your wife has, but I'd be surprised if it approached the quantity needed to justify generalizations.

If the basis of any discussion is that we can each personally vouch for the source of any claim, it's gonna be a slow forum.

(January 18, 2017 at 12:53 pm)Faith No More Wrote: ...

I know I said I'd give you the last word and we'd call it good, so I won't respond to anything you said here.  It's a new day and a cooler head, so I did want to answer your question.  My wife has a bachelor's degree in psychology.  She has spent nearly the last 20 years working with the intellectually disabled.  She is not trained to "diagnose" mental illness.  Her training did necessarily include spotting and understanding it, though.  I did not want to leave the conversation with a potentially misleading or deceptive statement out there on my part.

(January 17, 2017 at 8:27 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Nor I you. I have my own experiences as a business manager, but I'm pretty sure that those experiences aren't large enough for me to generalize. I don't know how much experience your wife has, but I'd be surprised if it approached the quantity needed to justify generalizations.

If the basis of any discussion is that we can each personally vouch for the source of any claim, it's gonna be a slow forum.

My apologies for my tone.  You're obviously a reasonable person.  I was frustrated, but that is no excuse.  I will try to be better in the future.

(January 18, 2017 at 1:22 pm)Asmodee Wrote: I know I said I'd give you the last word and we'd call it good, so I won't respond to anything you said here.  It's a new day and a cooler head, so I did want to answer your question.  My wife has a bachelor's degree in psychology.  She has spent nearly the last 20 years working with the intellectually disabled.  She is not trained to "diagnose" mental illness.  Her training did necessarily include spotting and understanding it, though.  I did not want to leave the conversation with a potentially misleading or deceptive statement out there on my part.

I know that you probably won't respond to or even read this, but what you've just described means she is not qualified to diagnose mental illness, like I've tried to tell you before.

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And is she is going around making judgements about the state of other people's mental health, she should stop.

(January 18, 2017 at 1:27 pm)Faith No More Wrote:

(January 18, 2017 at 1:22 pm)Asmodee Wrote: I know I said I'd give you the last word and we'd call it good, so I won't respond to anything you said here.  It's a new day and a cooler head, so I did want to answer your question.  My wife has a bachelor's degree in psychology.  She has spent nearly the last 20 years working with the intellectually disabled.  She is not trained to "diagnose" mental illness.  Her training did necessarily include spotting and understanding it, though.  I did not want to leave the conversation with a potentially misleading or deceptive statement out there on my part.

I know that you probably won't respond to or even read this, but what you've just described means she is not qualified to diagnose mental illness, like I've tried to tell you before.

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And is she is going around making judgements about the state of other people's mental health, she should stop.

I did read it.  I'm not that petty.  And no, I will not respond to it simply because I said I wouldn't and the conversation is utterly pointless at this point anyway.