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Originally Posted by venusss
I may find you yet interesting. [Phew!: all be blessed!]
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To me worst kind of newbies are those that assume they know your story (because all bipolars are the same, right?) and jump on you with their "advice" right off, telling you how delusional you are because you are doing something out of the mainstream **** they ready about in bipolar for dummies or on wikipedia. They usually last few posts though and leave with "oh, I thought you were looking for help and support, but if you don't do the generic standard route, it's not place for me".
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I clearly overreacted to this thread yesterday.
But I feel
very strongly about people being divisive or stigmatising in minority groups that are themselves stigmatised: it is the worst, in my book.
I'd rather be over-inclusive any day.
I agree that anyone should find their own particular ways to deal with their problems, but we—in a way—just are very similar.
If anyone feels uncomfortable with that, that is their problem. Not anyone else's. Looking for similarities is what connects us.
You may group people to attack them or to embrace them.
I annotated your post to emphasise my point: singling out people is not a healthy, constructive exercise. It is sarcastic, but isn't aimed at you as person. It just helps to illustrate a point. You are not as good or bad as what you do, from how I see it.
I very like that you maintain your autonomy, individuality and don't feel afraid to have a dissenting views. You suggest/people to look differently at problems from the "mainstream", as you put it.
It is just the how, very much asserting your differences from others, less so the similarities, that is not always healthy psychologically/mentally, I think. It doesn't sound like someone that's at peace with themselves.
Just a thought, call it advice, given because I am just like you: human.
Being human, I could also be very wrong, naturally.
I hope we never single out anyone here, no matter what they do (other than attacking people like this). We all rather live on the edge: it's precarious and we don't want to push someone over it, I hope.
No-one has the edge over anyone, here. We all give and receive advice from our own experience: some of it helpful, some less so.
No-one likes to be edged out of any group. In our case it could really be dangerous to the person involved.