Phoenix, I want to thank you for most of your post but also -- with appreciation, and not the least disrespect intended -- to use something you said as a jumping-off place for something I'd already been looking for a way to say. Let me emphasize: you didn't say anything "wrong"; you just represented more clearly than most, a viewpoint that I'd been looking for the best place and way to respond to.
So, as I said: I thought most of your post was excellent, and here's the part I'm making use of to illustrate my point:
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Originally Posted by phoenix7
I must admit some of the comments you guys (and gals  ) have said she says in her book have made me angry (havnt read and it and dont want to now grrr!)- I have been manipulated and I have a built in Bull manure meter that goes off if someon tries to play me - and so the idea that she would tell someone to do what it says in her book makes me angry - tell someone who was suicidal to go do it? !!!!!!! grrrr !!!!!!!! is that supposed to be shock treatment? - but hey it may work for some... not me though  |
Suppose that somewhere in a parallel universe, someone was having a conversation about their parallel Psych Central something like this:
========= Entering parallel universe. Please watch your step. =========
Omigod, you won't believe this! I just heard of the most awful website. It's full of crazy people and they're always talking about depression and delusions and psychiatrists and crap. Sounds like such a totally depressing place. I am so not going to go look at it. Don't tell your kids about it, they're liable to go there and get ideas how to be crazy. That's so sick! We should talk to somebody, see if they can shut it down.
========= Leaving parallel universe. Please watch your step. =========
My point is that just as the parallel "Psych Central" in that description doesn't really sound much like the one we know -- so the scary picture of DBT and Marsha Linehan that we've pieced together from a few quotes and a whole lot of imagination, may not bear much resemblance to the real thing.
(Phoenix, thanks again!)
