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Originally Posted by My kids are cool
As long as I am moping and not working anyway, I would like to do an informal couch poll. What makes each of you respond to a person in real life or on the forum with concern and compassion and an attempt to help? Sometimes I am totally flummoxed by who gets a huge response and who gets no response at all.
So, is it the person who is searching for ways out of where they are? Struggling for answers and open to help? Looking for ways to open a closed door in their life, or searching for a window to open? Searching for light in what seems like total darkness?
The person who keeps bashing their head against the same closed door over and over, while insisting the door is actually open? The person who keeps bashing their head against the same closed door over and over, insisting they have no choice except to continue bashing? OR who just says they are not actually bashing their head at all even though to all appearances they are?
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Good question.
I am like JS in that I tend to respond to someone I identify with...
Sometimes I have to make sure I am in a good place myself before I respond to a thread. My goal (not always successful) is to try to be helpful and/or supportive.
I try to ask questions in an attempt to better understand what the poster is asking for or posting about. Sometimes I stop posting to a thread that has turned argumentative or if I feel any response from me will probably be unhelpful.