~~~~~~~~~~~If you're a supporter of Psych Central -- you've contributed to one of our members fundraising drives, or contributed to our newsletter -- there's a new private forum just for you!!

PM me, Kimmydawn or JustBen if you fall into this category and want access to the forum. Tell us what you contributed -- if it was to a fund, for which member and the approximate date of your contribution (amount doesn't matter). If it was an article to the newsletter, please provide the admin with a URL to it.

Thanks and we hope you enjoy this new feature!
DocJohn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Doc, i'm really perplexed about your new forum. It looks, to me, that this is going to alienate people. I am speaking for the folks who are here that can't hardly support themselves much less someone else. There are alot of us.

We've helped keep your forum going by posting, chatting and Pming. We've offered up emotional support and sometimes that is harder than writing a check, sending an online payment or going to the post office to get a money order.

What about all of the posters, myself included, who worked on our poetry and allowed you to publish it. I thought that the sale of those books would also support PC. Are the CC people included in the private forum? I'm pretty sure that I remember you saying that the money from the sales of the books were going into the fund that PC maintains for emergencies. Such as the one Sleeps had.

It's pretty tiring to stay until til 2:00 a.m. listening and helping someone work through a catastrophic experience in their life. I can't speak for others, but I've done it and I didn't feel too hot at work that morning at 9:00 a.m. I did it because the forum is here and I am a member and I feel that it's part of my stewardship to support the people that are in pain. I didn't realize that doing that wasn't enough for me to have full privileges at Grohol's Psych Central. I'm a standup kinda woman and I guess I expected it from you.

I'm pretty puzzled by this. I would think that a feeling of unity would be what you're after. Especially after Sleeps pulled her number on PC and upset so many. This doesn't make me feel "united". It makes me feel ostracized because I haven't sent any money to PC. It actually feels more like a slap in my face than anything else that has ever happened here.

I feel that this is discrimination against the people who can't send money to Psych Central.

Pat/Ethel/Fayerody/PattyNearlyNormal