<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">There are effective medication treatments and psychotherapies for OCD. It is treatable. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Spike, the practice of medicine regulated by license as is the practicing of psychology and social work. “Counseling” is regulated to some degree. Call yourself a Life Coach however and you can coach away unregulated. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-Henry</div><div dir="ltr"><br><div dir="ltr"></div><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 24, 2021, at 2:09 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Spike, no, schizophrenia is not illegal, but records are kept as to who has been admitted to mental institutions. Schizophrenia of any kind is permanent. Psychiatrists and psychologists have a legal duty to report dangerous people to the police, and no, this does not violate client privacy.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">As for OCD, I don't know of any condition for which there is safe, effective treatment. But then I am not exactly up on the clinical area. Some people do get better - some get worse - some don't change. That's the typical result of studying the effects of psych treatment after three months. Followup studies a year later are even more depressing. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 12:16 PM Bill Hibbard via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Spike wrote:<br>
> Every time I went into a periodic security interview I<br>
> would tell everything: I don’t know all these people or<br>
> where they are from, some might be schizophrenic or<br>
> criminals or even commies. I was open and up front, they<br>
> never pulled my clearance for being friends with you.<br>
<br>
I can relate. In 1971 I needed a secret clearance and told<br>
them, "On two occasions I have had roommates who were<br>
convicted of attempting to firebomb military buildings."<br>
The lady said, "Oh my," but I got my clearance anyways.<br>
Since my job was technical a question might be how did I<br>
come to live with guys who were such putzes that they<br>
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