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Originally Posted by Anika
I realize that you "are" bipolar and that you are not sure if that is real. I get that, not far off from some of my own thoughts. I think your post came off as pretty critical of another members advice and personal attack kind of style. I realize you may not have meant it that way, but Hamster really was just trying to give her own advice to PD.
It's fine not to agree with someones opinion, but I think it can be done in a way that doesn't put the other person down. Hamster is a person not a "the" or an "it". These boards seem to run better and smoother if we all post respectfully. I also realize you are a newer member, so I am not trying to offend, but a bit of friendly advice. I hope you take it that way.
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It's true my first comment may feel like an attack to hamster. I just felt that his/her advice came off harsh for being a supportive place. Is my personal experience that I get upset if I'm talking about my hopes and dreams and someone minimizes them with a comment about my illness. So perhaps I took the comment in a wrong way.
I didn't try to be disrespectful and the little part as just because it is a little hamster, hamsters are little. Not to diminish or anything against the hamster (sorry, just hamster o something). Like you said I'm new and I don't know names or how to address people. Aside from that it is also my personal opinion that we need to lighten up. If we can't joke about being bipolar then I don't know, that sucks. I like being able to laugh it off and I hope with time I'm better understood, because I don't mean it in hurtful ways. But we are like we are so lets just have fun with it.