It's up to you yr entitled to it I suppose.But don't expect to dazzle with yr knowledge.That's only one nth of it.
Do you remember Champion The Wonder Horse ?

" Champeeeeen Da Wunduuuuur Hooooorrse !! "

You gonna be helped out too?

no just MY LITTLE PONIES

see thats people stereotype age, and not guniea pigs. im here to support people.

well - lets assume its a genuine offer. & frankly its far better that someone outside of us have an idea of what its like as close to first hand as possible.

sorry PURE - you will have to realize that we are all more than a little wary of non-BPers offering us "advice" - because often we feel they don't know shit & are just talking out of their ass (forgive the colloquilisms). but if you want to hang out & are willing to listen to how beepers feel about BP and how we counsel each other (fairly successfully too, i might add), i think you will find this board very educational, and i think you will be a better psychologist & a better friend to the BP community for doing so.

can i be the 1st to sit in your chair and be analyzed? seriously

I have bipolar and am in a very serious depression/anxiety state. I am an RN but had to take some time off work, can't cope. Having a very difficult time just making basic decisions, trouble focusing, no appetite. scared. don't want to die just want to feel better. how can you help? i believe in God but i am afraid my faith isn't strong enough. I don't know.

I don't think pure meant anything offensive to us. he means that he wants ot become a psychologist, and it'd be great if he could practice and know whats up. i mean we arent guinea pigs, im 16 and i want to be a vet, i go to the zoo but they dont yell at me. he wants experience in his field and i dont mind him here.

he isnt assuming us as freaks. i believe he just wnts to help us,like how you would play pretend doctor wiht your kids.

Honestly.I don't give a shit purely cos of the trip people have.Fuck em.
I know what my friends and I have been through and there isn't anyone like you that can even hope of empathising.

Sorry for the FRENCH

he can stay for sure it dont bother me, i jsut got dibs on being his 1st client

im talking to him on msn so im all good hes my "personal phycologist" :D

well then i call 2nd

sorry, I wouldn't let a 16 yo that wants to be a vet treat my cats. Or a 21 yo the same. Or a 50yo that wants to be a vet either. see it's not an age thing!

Problem is that sometimes, just sometimes, we don't stop to check who people are and when we are totally out of it, you, 16yo that is not bipolar, just might give the wrong advice.

I expect before they let you get anywhere near people they will take you through a course on ethics, on being supervised on knowing your limits. Oh, and a year on statistics.

alright listen everyone, my goal in life is to get a psych degree and work at a hospital. I do things with my time to help people in my spare time i meet because its who i am. I have taken psych course where i led the class the whole year. my studies were from genral psychology to mental disorders (where i have studied BP and many others). My goal now is to be here to give support to all thoose i can because i got a general idea of what is going on. I do suffer from depression from time to time i have had my own life problems im sure i can relate somtimes. I was over there helpiing out to. So i wnated to make a difference in somones life the soonest i can. i would never offer fake advice if i didnt no what i was tlaking about. or start helping somone i didnt think i could do much for. I would do what i knew to amke a difference i understand all your ppoints of view and im sorry i really am gunna stick to my depression boared til i have more training since i probly wouyldnt be taken seriuosly it wouldnt help much.