Nah, the author was just under the impression that councellors are for anything other than terminally crazy people. There&#x27;s a difference between my friend asking me &quot;are you hurt&quot; and the doctor asking me &quot;are you hurt&quot;. Your friend doesn&#x27;t need to know that on every third step your knee hurts, but that&#x27;s exactly what you&#x27;re going to the doctor for, so it would be really silly saying it doesn&#x27;t hurt when it does, even if the pain is not yet severe. Similarly &quot;are you absolutely sure you will not hurt yourself today?&quot; -- you and I know that means &quot;are you going to take a knife and slice your wrists or put your face in the flames to see how they taste or something&quot;, but it can also mean &quot;are you going to kick a table by mistake?&quot;. A person not familiar with the severe psychological issues councellors see each day can very easily not even think that &quot;are you absolutely sure you&#x27;re not going to hurt yourself today?&quot; refers in to them stabbing themselves voluntarily with a sharp object to make the voices go away.