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#26
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I know I am new so I do not have the history that some other members have. There are times when a healthy debate is stimulating and good for the critical thinking part of our brains. Something I try to remember that I forgot recently but was able to reign it in is.... Is it more important for me to be right or to be kind? Is it more important to 'show that person how it is' or offer validation and compassion? There are times where I feel strongly about something and will continue to drive a point but that is generally relegated to when another member asks for advice or wants to know if they are seeing things with an open mind or if there is an ethical answer. I have come to understand that things that involve trauma or people that have been traumatized are not looking to find out if they were "right" or "wrong" Generally they are looking for validation and empathy. I can only speak for me, but my recent involvement in a thread where my compassion went out the window was a result of getting caught up in drama (which I NEVER do) and feeling like I had to take a side. Its hard when certain things from both sides make somewhat sense. Its also hard when I get on my high horse and think it I did things my way then everyone should do things my way. It involves ego and self righteousness. We all give in to our egos at times. And some of us have constructed a delicate layer to our egos that needs constant affirmations. That problem falls squarely on the persons' with the ax to grind. I do not agree with ditching the forums because its not "safe" or because I feel unliked. I first try and make sincere amends and usually that solves the problem because I mean it. I think if more people were able to see their part in a conflict that safety would be felt by more people. It always takes two or more to debate or argue and there isnt always an obvious "right" person. Being human is ok, admitting you were wrong or overeacted, or lacked sensitivity isnt concession to another person. It just means you made a mistake and we all make them. I hope people do not just shutdown and leave because often those people contribute a lot of useful stuff.
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The positives I’ve gotten from PC is the ability to connect with and learn from others here which educated me to help myself with issues hindering my life. I like to keep in mind, though, that posting here is like writing on a public bathroom wall.
Opinions are like azzholes, everybody’s got one! Nobody likes to get criticized and that mental image of being chased by angry mobs with pitch forks (which I’ve held that image myself), is a deterrent for many who would like to post but don’t out of that same fear. As I’m feeling stronger now, I can control just not responding to bullies, trolls, rude people. I can shut them down by not playing into their hands. This is empowering!
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I think @sarahsweets hit the nail on the head -- validation and empathy are key words when responding in a mental health community. We're not a debate community. We're not a place to find the "truth" about a particular type of treatment, especially given that different treatments work for different people.
Just try and remember, everyone you're responding to here is likely battling their own pain and demons, ones that just happen to be different than yours. Their life experience is also likely to be wildly different from yours. All we can do is offer what we can, as fellow human beings, and do so in as non-judgmental way as possible. Sometimes a person just needs to vent and isn't really looking for advice or your "take" on things. That's okay to do here. That's why I always say this is a self-help support community -- not a discussion forum. If you want to debate topics, there are plenty of online forums to do so. We're not one of them.
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Thank you for the intent on non-judgment and support rather than debate and “truths”.
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I think it wise default is refraining from advice-giving or worse, prescription and instruction, unless specifically requested. It’s possible to discuss how we experienced a similar challenge without disrespecting another’s boundaries. We’re merely guests in another’s backyard.
I’ll add that harm in therapy or iatrogenesis appears an extremely difficult topic for the profession. |
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What I learned is "meet the person where he/she is". Just listen, sit with the person. All the topics here are difficult. Everyone's pain is different. Offer an ear and comfort.
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Assertiveness training, as it was at the time, was behavioral training. It had nothing to do with, nothing to say about, what if there was a loss or fragmentation of an underlying sense of self, or something like that, if anybody even believes that something like that can exist. It's taken me years and years since then to try to address -- try to even find out -- things that prevented "assertiveness training" to be a satisfactory solution in my case. So -- thanks for the intention, but I'll support missbella's comment on this: Quote:
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It may be too tedious for most -- or any? -- to go through all the posts above and see where things didn't mesh, or were misundertood, or were in disagreement. But they seem to be there, to me. One thing I found in dealing with conflict and working with a family member I was estranged from is that it was important to focus on our common interest, and common overall goal, and then to learn how to discuss our different approaches, different talents in working toward our common interest, and developing changing goals and steps to get there along the way. Happily, we have succeeded. ![]() So -- it can be done, I think. In some instances. If/when we have a common interest or goal that we can identify. Let me just say that, in my experience, assertiveness training as I have experienced it is not up to the task. If it is for some, go ahead with that route. I have had to do some "pre-requisite" work, as I felt I also needed before DBT would be of any help for me. I tried that, too. |
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The question was simply whether or not it was in response to a direct request. Not for whom the bell tolls.
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Never the twain shall meet.
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You said there werent any classes. Luv said there were. I suggested dbt. You are not interested in discussions. You just shoot everything down. How is that a discussion? Its really boring for the person getting shot down at every turn. So thanks but no, thanks.
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Nevertheless, when she responded to my questions with a contradiction of an assertion that I had made -- with the qualifier "which I have found", it felt like a slap in the face. Could I have taken a step back, analyzed it this way at the time, and gone forward? Perhaps. Why didn't I do that? All questions that I think could be up for discussion, if anybody was interested in such a discussion. |
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What it looked like to me was someone asking how to create a community dinner and being handed a handbook on bicycle repair AND being told that not wanting a bicycle repair book makes them ungrateful. The responses being given are not on the topic being asked about.
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If you just want someone to agree with you, that is not a discussion or a conversation.
If your ego cannot withstand someone having a different existence from you without it feeling like quote a slap in the face, then yeah you need to start waaaay back at step one and differentiate your newborn self from yo mama. Usually thats therapy. |
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I don't see that as what HT is doing. I don't know what you are talking about.
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Eta - huh, looks like we cross posted. And agreed on something again!! |
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So far, maybe what I've heard is everybody should go to assertiveness training. Or maybe DBT. Is that a fair statement of where you are coming from? |
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No. I think people should work harder in therapy - yes, Im a client-blamer. I try to follow missbellas rule of saying things as, "this is what worked for me" but people just call me a cheek-kisser. So then i turn the other cheek and go to another thread.
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Huh? Now I have no idea what you are talking about. So if nobody knows what anybody else is talking about and nobody knows what common interest they have, then there's not much to discuss, is there?
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I was really trying to follow but then I got lost...
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