Why are the coffee house, creative corner, sanity score and sanctuary for spiritual support organized under 'General', while current events, recipes & healthy living and jobs are filed under 'Distractions'?

You might be interested in knowing that Current Events used to be listen under General.

Originally Posted by Breadfish

You might be interested in knowing that Current Events used to be listen under General.

Wonder why they moved it. Still does not explain why spiritual support or creative corner are considered mainstream enough to be under general, while important aspects of life like work and healthy living are labeled as distractions : } Also- distraction to what exactly? Maybe calling it off-topic instead would be more appropriate.

[Artchic528]

The Current Events forum was beginning to get heated as US presidential elections were becoming more prevalent. People kept trying to shout over one another to get their point across and it got nowhere. So, to help keep the peace, Doc John moved it to the Distractions area.

[DocJohn]

The reason for the exact placement of a particular forum under a specific category is always going to boil down to a judgment call made by myself, the community's host. The decisions were made more than a decade ago, so I'm not even sure I could revisit the reasoning behind such placements with any degree of surety of memory.

But here goes anyway so you have something of an answer...

Coffeehouse is a component of general social chat, which has always been an important part of our community. General social chat was spun off of "Other Mental Health Discussion," hence the reason it appears near it.

Sanity Score is a mental health screening tool we developed, so yes, it makes sense to be nearer the top so folks can discuss their scores and interpretation.

Spirituality is an important component of many people's recovery.

I wouldn't get caught up in a particular label. I could have just as easily labeled "Distractions" "More General Stuff." It's not meant as a judgment call.

There are no "right" answers here, sorry, it's just the way it is.

DocJohn

Jobs and healthy living also seem to be a vital component of recovery, since no job=no money to support yourself and no healthy living=relapse, but I get it, your forum and ideas.

Why did you delete the posts from 3 member chiming in? Apart from Arctchic's meanspirited post calling the other member's view irrelevant, everyone behaved civil and provided valuable input.

Independent thinking and openly sharing & discussing (without hurting anyone) seem to be at the basis of any forum and encourage self reflection, which seeing how this is a mental health forum, seems crucial in recovery.

[DocJohn]

The posts were off-topic to the question posed by the OP. They also delved into personal attacks, which are not allowed by the community guidelines.

We encourage independent thinking and openly sharing and discussing ideas. We do not allow personal attacks or the expression of belief that denigrates others or the tools we use here to help people keep safe.