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Sorry I missed this on my first read through...
> the preceding comment was aimed at my post's lack of relevance to the support mission of the forum...
Do you really think your post (and the way this discussion has turned) is irrelevant to the support mission of the forum?
Support...
How about supporting people to be informed consumers?
How about supporting people to be critical thinking consumers?
How about supporting people to...
Take an active role in their recovery?
Because to me...
That is what these discussions are about.
See...
I think of ideas as abstract objects.
Sometimes people grasp them...
They think them
They say them
But they are abstract objects that are there to be kicked around and thought about and considered and disputed etc...
And that process...
Can be empowering.
Can be helpful.
This process...
Is my therapy.
It is my form of therapy.
It is what helps me get better
(I do not qualify for psychological treatment)
It is what has helped me get better
Am I hurting anyone?
Am I being unsupportive to people
(Rather than ideas which I will critique and question in the effort to obtain truth or at least a considered opinion)?
I wouldn't turn a support thread into this kind of discussion...
(Though might possibly by accident if someone else started it)
;-)
I appreciate that there is a time and a place...
But is there a place for these kinds of threads on these boards or not?
Because if there is not...
Then I shall leave now.
Because this is a part of me.
And I appreciate it can hurt a little when someone questions your beliefs...
And I do try and be sensitive to that...
And it will take some time to know who is okay with this and who would prefer me not to do this in response to their posts
(Comperable to how it takes time to figure who wants support and who wants suggestions / advice)
But can it be figured?
I think I'm okay...
But if this thread is considered unsupportive then please tell me now...
And I'll make a strategic retreat back to boards that shall not be named...
No disrespect...
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