I was afraid this would happen. Somehow I’m not getting across what I mean to say. If for example, you are truly suicidal, and manydont use the warning icons, it puts us on the wrong track to not have the basic facts. What if it was me who was in the serious stages of planning it. IM NOT. This is just an example. Wouldn’t you want to know if i was in treatment and as best I could describe it what was causing that feeling? In some of these situations the person, not just in danger of self harming, needs. The most basic treatment and info right away. Of course it’s their or my right to start an unrelated thread , like how’s the weather where you are? Sometimes a distraction is good. However, if, seriously planning self harm ( again just an example) I put our readers thru a long drawn out question, I:might not get help in time. Christina, you and I answer a lot of questions. Both of us have had to change our answers completely because the questions have not been specific with basic info. That happened to me as a poster recently. It was ok because I wasn’t in danger. However, sometimes there is a big lag time as we do other things in our lives, or those who answer us do other things.
Now I see what doctors are up against in trying to get the full picture in a short session.. I do outline my info before a session and give a huge packet of info on n me to a new doctor. The wonderful Skeezyks is no longer giving new members basic info to get started. Miss you, Skeezyks.
I’m on a community forum in my town. I see I need to save, then copy and paste some info that I have to keep repeating.
Ok, is this more clear? I like your idea, Christina, asking how can I help.