We doin' psych eval, now?
No one here is doing psychological evaluations. What I'm doing is entertaining the possibility that Koda's erratic behavior may be a symptom of an underlying mental health issue. I'm not saying for certain that he's got X or Y condition, and I'm not prescribing him any treatments, I'm just saying that he should probably go see an actual professional.
How are people speculating about others' mental health in such a casual way, without even having proper info/intel? lol
No proper info or intel? I've had this convo many times with other peeps who also wanted to pretend everything was fine, and
no, someone who,
in a professional setting, misses the mark on a project's expected release date by about 4-5 months, each time saying with confidence that the project will be finished the next week, rounding out to about 15-20 delay announcements total, for the project to finally be released in an unfinished and unsatisfactory state forcing them to continue working on it even after it's been released, before they are done with it once and for all and they can move on to the next project... where this same cycle repeats itself and continues indefinitely......
You
cannot hope to say that such an individual is functioning "normally", or simply chalk it all up to "perfectionism" when it's clearly gone way past that. Especially when right now they're saying that they
are depressed. Oh, but according to them it's only temporary, and it was the result of a turbulent presidential election that his preferred candidate ended up winning! As if that made any sense.
Even for
actual , practicing psychologists, wouldn't that be
antiethical, to say the least?
You're dead wrong here. Medical experts from all fields understand that people should be made to keep an eye out for any kind of medical symptoms that they come across in their everyday lives, not just in themselves but in others as well. Some injuries can have symptoms that are difficult to perceive to the person having them but not to others, or symptoms that may appear to be nothing special or not worrisome, but may end up actually killing you (see: concussions). Others may not put your life at jeopardy, but have symptoms that will leave lasting effects if left untreated for too long.
Routine checkups are also a thing for a reason. Almost any excuse is a good enough one to go see a doctor, though I get that there's a financial disincentive if you're from a country like the US where there's no socialized medicine.
And surely it should be obvious why all of this is doubly true when we're talking about mental health conditions specifically, I hope that I don't have to spell it out for you, but there's a very real danger that should
always be in the back of our minds when we're talking about mental conditions, no matter the person. Maybe you're fortunate enough to have never come across it, but most people aren't that lucky and can't afford to have the luxury of ignoring anything that may potentially be off about the people surrounding them.
(And that is coming from someone who MOSTLY disregards/doesn't take interest in the field of psychology in general and has a tendency to downplay some/various claims of "mental health problems" as actual moral weakness:
let that sink in.
)
Now this here is just perplexing to me. Are you talking about yourself or someone else in this thread? If you
are talking about yourself like it seems, then why even try to get into an argument on this topic when you admit you're mostly ignorant about it? Are you one of those people that think that they don't need to know anything about a certain topic to be able to tell when
others don't know anything about it either? Because that isn't how this works.
And now here's my only moral prescription for you (it's only fair that I give you one since you're doing the same to me). If you actually are someone who "has a tendency to downplay some/various claims of "mental health problems" as actual moral weakness", then reevaluate yourself and start actually reading up on mental health issues. I don't actually know if this kind of stance can be considered immoral or not, but I do know for a fact that it's toxic and harmful, and if worse comes to worst, you may end up not being able to prevent a tragedy because of it.
TLDR: Let's use this metaphor. Koda is a guy who's been limping for the past
year, and he says "It's okay guys, I just sprained my ankle, it'll probably heal naturally anytime now". I'm out here saying "Nah bro, you should go see a doctor and have them look at your leg", to which Solaire responds "Uhm, excuse me? You weren't a trained physician last I checked. Isn't it deeply immoral for you to be diagnosing him like that without having a clue of what's going on?"
This just an oversimplification ofc, and I mostly talk about mental health stuff which I think everyone would do well to know more of.