Don't do this. Seriously don't frigging do this.https://twitter.com/TrueFactsStated/status/813739771650600960 …
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Second, the Goldwater rule is an ethical principle of the APA, making it explicitly unethical to give statements about...
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public figures that they have not examined.
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Third, the act of diagnosis and examination is a consent-based practice, as is the privacy of such diagnoses.
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In short, you are either not qualified to state a medical opinion or you are in a multi-fold breach of professional ethics.
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If
@TrueFactsStated is not a physician. then he's not bound to an ethical code. But then he's not qualified to make his claim. -
and if you are qualified, then you cannot make a diagnostic claim like
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In either case, this narrative of Trump as mentally ill does nothing but further harm the image of MH sufferers.
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