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See, I think you are completely right. And as someone who has been depressed I totally appreciate what you said and completely agree with what was put. and don't think you should edit it out.
Why is it a shame? Sometimes I think people here expect the world to be a blobby ball of cotton wool. It isn't all peachy and, whilst 1983 might have been blunt and maybe even wrong in this case, sometimes what people need most is a good kick up the back side to stop them wallowing in their own self-pity.
If folk think that a thread on a public board is going to be a safe-haven just because folk would like it that way, then they are deluded. The world isn't that nice.
And I'm sure that they get it, advice is given out all the time. Why should that thread be any different from the many other threads here where, when people are taking the piss out of people who have real issues with trivial nonsense, they are rightly put into their place.
It's a bit of a double-standard I think, a bit odd.
Well you did say you were "going to have to take 1983's side on this" at the start of your post although what you personally added was not specifically offensive.
I think that the depression and self-harming thread is one of the most important threads on here.
The day that I first discovered thesite I found that particular thread. I had been a self harmer for three and a half years completely in secret, nobody knew. On reading that thread I felt the courage to make a doctors appointment and attempt to sort things in my life out. I still struggle with self harm and depression and still turn to the health forum for support at times. Imagine if the first thing I’d read on here was 1983’s post. I wouldn’t have stayed around long enough to realise that not everyone on here is like that.
Because that's the thread we turn to when we are feeling so low that we want to self harm or are feeling suicidal.
It's kind of different to P&D.
I guess we'll just have to disagree then, because you don't get what I'm saying.
There's other sensitive issues that are discussed fully and openly on here and without censorship and nannying. If you want a thread that noone can debate about then you can have a sticky announcement.
I just find it a bit odd.
And 1983 wasn't just "taking the piss" was she?
No I didn't mean that I meant when say, you've got a serious problem that people post about, and then other people post who don't have a serious problem but are just on the boards to waste folk's time. I think there's a few people who have the depression equivilant of wasting folk's time.
Have you actually read the reasons that this thread was started by DJP in the first place? Or his “rules”?
Clearly 1983 was in breech of these “rules” and what was written completely changed the tone the thread from supportive and sharing to a bitchy personal attack.
Clearly, otherwise why would I be questioning the additional rules?
Hunny, I love you, but I must disagree here. Maybe sometimes all people need is a hug. When they have such a problem or feel so down, maybe when they feel like they can't turn to anybody else, maybe their escape is the internet. Maybe all they need is just to rant a little bit. Maybe all they need is a *hug* Maybe it feels a bit better knowing somebody out there has enough time to take 5 seconds to make a post that says *hug*. Maybe thats enough.