> "A high suicide rate among psychiatrists
What is vicarious trauma, and why might it relate to psychiatrists?
Did you think I was suggesting that such experts were somehow more prone to such issues regardless of their profession (e.g. by their nurture or DNA)?
My whole point is that people with vicarious trauma shouldn't be guiding others on how to deal with traumas or stressful situations, and as if they we have this "trauma" thing sorted out and their trained pros that know how to overcome it...
So like any other business these days, and considerably better than Facebook?
>I feel that the amount of good they could do is way less than the harm they could do. And that the dangers of allowing another person to give you untrained/regulated advise is a terrible path to go down instead of understanding yourself.
It's not like we have these things (personal life advice, mental health, etc), sorted out, and some "expert" can come and give solid advice because they studied the subject at university.
If anything experts in those fields are as much quacks as the astrologists, but with extra state power to boot.
Some of the worst advice has been given by doctors and specialists -- all the way to forced lobotomies and electric shock treatment.
If anything, the regular psycic (not a full on con-man) would be more careful with their advice/interventions, because they don't want to rock the boat too much, and knowing their trick, they don't have a "god complex" like many experts develop.
Heck, those "experts" are on the top of professionals committing suicide themselves, and on the top of professionals with mental issues:
"A high suicide rate among psychiatrists (58 to 65/100,000 compared with that of the general population, 11/100,000) has been reported by the following: Freeman, Blachly et al, DeSole et al, and Pond"