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The main point would still be there. Actually I told a story about a year ago, and forgot I had. I told it again. A reader noticed and commented that he liked both versions. It was obviously the same story. I looked and the details were “blurred” but fairly close.The one thing I will never do is to write a story in which the client could recognize himself or herself. That actually eliminates quite a few stories because there’s no way to make the main point without possibly identifying the person.My disclaimer explains it a bit better.Dr. David McPhee does not provide any psychological or other health-related services or advice to individuals on Quora, and even when responses to questions are answered in the second person as a literary device, they are general and hypothetical, and not intended to be personal for the questioner. Answers are for general information only, and never constitute advice for any individual. Dr. McPhee makes no claims that information he provides is always completely accurate and up-to-date, and readers must check primary sources before relying on such information or opinion.Narratives about past patients or other persons are heavily blurred as to specifics of age, gender, time period, location, and details of problems. They may even represent a composite of several patients or other persons. The fictionalizing of details is such that the actual patients and other persons would not recognize themselves. Names of course are fictitious, but are used as a device to assist the reader in keeping track of the various characters.Dr. McPhee writes about these fictionalized cases to teach, reassure, comfort and challenge, and because they represent a version of my experience without revealing private information about any individual.

Have you been diagnosed by a qualified doctor? Be aware that online checklists are not always accurate in diagnosing mental health conditions.Ask your parents to make an appointment with your doctor to start the process of diagnosing ADHD. If they refuse, you may be able to contact your doctor yourself and make an appointment.Depending on your medical coverage and privacy laws where you live, this may be possible to do without involving your parents. Your parent’s insurance billing may be involved.You can also wait until you are 18, at which time you are free to contact a doctor yourself. Payment will be an issue. If you are still covered on your parents policy, they will probably be aware that you have had an appointment, but the details of the treatment won’t have to be addressed — just payment concerns.I am not a doctor or a lawyer, if you need real legal advice, contact an attorney.See Sharing Information Related to Mental Health from the US department of Health and Human ServicesCan a minor child’s doctor talk to the child’s parent about the patient’s mental health status and needs?With respect to general treatment situations, a parent, guardian, or other person acting in loco parentis usually is the personal representative of the minor child, and a health care provider is permitted to share patient information with a patient’s personal representative under the Privacy Rule.However, section 164.502(g) of the Privacy Rule contains several important exceptions to this general rule.A parent is not treated as a minor child’s personal representative when: (1) State or other law does not require the consent of a parent or other person before a minor can obtain a particular health care service, the minor consents to the health care service, and the minor child has not requested the parent be treated as a personal representative; (2) someone other than the parent is authorized by law to consent to the provision of a particular health service to a minor and provides such consent; or (3) a parent agrees to a confidential relationship between the minor and a health care provider with respect to the health care service.2For example, if State law provides an adolescent the right to obtain mental health treatment without parental consent, and the adolescent consents to such treatment, the parent would not be the personal representative of the adolescent with respect to that mental health treatment information.

I have given a lot of thought to why the public believes that lawyers are dishonest. And I have decided that, in the end, it comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of how the legal profession works.First, lawyers have ethical obligations that are foreign to most lay people. These obligations require us to keep confidences and make arguments that lay people don’t understand. I was raised to believe that holding back information is lying. and I think many people feel the same way. But as a lawyer, even if I know something that would hand the case to the other side, I still have to keep it to myself. The law does not consider holding back information that you are not legally required to provide lying. In fact, if I reveal my clients’ confidences I could lose my license to practice law, and whatever I said likely couldn’t be used in court against the now ex-client anyway.Second, lawyers defend “guilty” people. We see these famous cases in which we decide that the person is guilty. Guilty to lay people has a different meaning from guilty to a lawyer. Guilty to a lawyer means that the person has been found guilty by a jury or pled guilty to a crime. Until one of these things happens, the person is not guilty. And it is the job of the criminal defense attorney to zealously, within the bounds of the law and our ethical requirements, to defend their clients. Many people, unless and until they or a family member find themselves charged with a crime, don’t like this. They feel it makes lawyers bad and/or dishonest.Third, lawyers tend to come into most people’s lives at bad times. I am going to guess that most people who encounter lawyers do so when they have been in an accident or are getting a divorce. These are not good times and it is very easy to develop resentment against the person representing you. Even the strongest of lawsuits in personal injury cases are difficult. They can drag on for a long time. The injury victim has to answer a lot of personal questions. And then, if the injury victim gets money, they pay anywhere from 30–50% of that money to the lawyer. It is pretty common for the injury victim to start thinking, the lawyer didn’t do so much, why did they get so much money? I’m the one who was hurt. It is easy to forget that the lawyer got the money for you and that the majority of the work they did the client never sees. And of course, divorces are miserable. No one wins in a divorce. They are expensive. Clients rarely are happy with the end result and just feel like they paid a lot of money to lose. So money is an issue too. Lawyers get paid, win or lose (barring contingency cases).Most lawyers are very honest. Some lawyers are not. As with any profession, there are some awful lawyers out there who give us all a bad name. But the general impression of dishonesty, I think, really comes from a place of misunderstanding of our obligations as lawyers.