Posted by Larry Hoover on September 9, 2016, at 19:53:26
In reply to Re: Our troll problem. It is about time., posted by SLS on September 9, 2016, at 19:20:20
Scott, I've seen trolls on every forum imaginable. Cooking forums, stock investment forums, organic gardening forums, I don't know. I'm very tired. Not good at lists at the moment.
I think there's an erroneous assumption to merely consider the Pilderbeest as simply a troll. This is a mental health forum, and it is precisely for that reason that issue is not the same as those others. (Are you listening, baseball?)
Vulnerable people who can use google come here for help. They wouldn't come here if they didn't need help. Someone who took Paxil or Risperidol without adverse effect would have no reason to look deeper, would they? Somebody who had no boundary issues with a therapist would neither. Neither would someone who had adequate psychological supports provided by their prescriber. Someone diagnosed with a mental illness should never be handed a prescription and told to come back in three months, but we know that happens all the time. To say nothing of comorbidities, which are unlikely to be addressed with immediate success because the clinical studies exclude comorbidities in the subjects that they accept. But I digress.
Lou Pilder, in his own words, described multiple psychotic episodes (the rider on the white horse series). If you read the archives, you'll learn that his parents had him institutionalized against his will. And what he came away with was a delusion of having met a doctor who never existed, a Jewish doctor who survived the Nazi era, but one a with a secret message intended only for him. His own words. And the Tabitha uncovered the fact that he was fired for bizarre behaviour when he was a young man. I suspect those are related/contemporaneous issues.
I also have never seen him exhibit empathy. One of the hallmarks of sociopathy is extreme narcissism, the complete inability to imagine what another person might feel. But that in itself is insufficient. Not all narcissists are sociopaths, but all sociopaths are narcissists.
It is the combination of self-delusion egotism with the narcissism that defines sociopathy, also known as psychopathy. Lou was sent by God, to save us all, whether we want it or not.
If this was physical violence that we were observing, our society favours indefinite confinement. This is psychological and emotional abuse, which cannot be proven by photograph or x-ray.
The ostrich approach is not a solution. I don't know what is, but it needs to be discussed.
Just my opinion.
Lar
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