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Daniel_Burfoot comments on Can we talk about mental illness? - Less Wrong Discussion

39 Post author: riparianx 08 March 2015 08:24AM

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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 09 March 2015 02:26:44AM *  3 points [-]

It's hard to give good advice on the topic of mental illness without falling into the trap of Other-Optimizing.

Comment author: riparianx 09 March 2015 12:41:51PM 1 point [-]

Agreed. But mental illness is such a weird and complex thing that it's even hard for trained professionals to help with. A lot of the posts here about Akrasia helped some, didn't touch others. I suspect we'd see the same results with this.