Anonymous asked this question on 4/13/2000:

Please experts, make sure you know exactly what you're talking about before you give a reply to a request for advice. An answer based on hearsay or opinion especially in this case is totally unacceptable and can do more harm than good. Case in point - the recent request for advice on ECT. If you are not a trained professional who is thoroughly familiar with this procedure or a patient who has gone through a series of treatments, how can you conscientiously answer this person? Please, stick to what you really know about. Nobody's an expert at everything. Just because you're signed up here doesn't mean you have to answer every post.

- Concerned

tayrup70 gave this response on 4/14/2000:

In Larry's defense,I have read his answers, He has given me advice, I feel better then ever before. I don't know anything about scientology,I din't even know there was a difference between that and psychology. Now that I know where his advice came from I'm gonna check it out. One thing I do know about though is living with a former mental patient who grew more insane the more he was treated by psychiatry. When the pills didn't work,they only made his temper flare,they tried ECT. I wish I could turn back time. I wish that when I visit him monthly he didn't drool all over himself,I wish he could remember my name. The sad thing is I can't do anything to get him out of the instituition. the sad thing is he went in to see a MD with mild depresssion. he use to be successful,he use to be a very loving man. I miss him very much. I wish I had heard larry's advice and followups earlier in life. i could have saved my soulmate. One week depression free,and signing up for a course at the nearest scientology organization. Screw,Psychiatry! Inhuman bastards!

happily signed, Taya

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