It is unethical to diagnose as you said. My post was a specific response to the challenge that another poster had no particular expertise as to what a suicide profile may be.
I responded with a person who actually does and stated from what was given it did not fit, was not a diagnosis but did provide context.
Can you really not see the distinction? Is it you position a person trained as such cannot have an opinion or speak to the matter unless they are giving a diagnosis? That would literally neuter any trained person’s ability to exercise their free speech, preventing them from ever commenting on the subject about anything they actually know about.
How would they transfer any knowledge at that point to others?
“Is it you position a person trained as such cannot have an opinion or speak to the matter unless they are giving a diagnosis?”
It’s my opinion that if a person thinks they can say whether someone fits the “profile” of a suicidal person based solely on information they gleaned about them from the internet, then that person is being stupid, for a multitude of reasons that should be manifest to any person that isn’t stupid.