Posted by Nickengland on October 15, 2005, at 12:57:36
In reply to Re: Dr. Bob. . . are you here?, posted by Sarah T. on October 15, 2005, at 1:34:17
I think Dr-Bob.org is about Support and Education, based via an online internet forum whereby members can join (after going through the signing up process) and are able to post with a view of educating and supporting each other under a general psychiatric based setting.
The responsiblites of each poster to one another is to be civil, if their not, the deputies and/or Dr Bob will ask them to be civil or block the poster(s) for up to a period of 1 year.
In the case of suicide, if posters choose to respond to a suicidal poster, then again that is their respnsiblity and at the same time it is the responsiblity of the suicidal poster who chooses to post their thoughts on an internet forum via a computer.
Maybe the social board in some instances isn't the most ideal place to be discussing suicide, mainly because for the best outcome of the members of the board, and more importantly the suicidal person - Social services would be better suited, in certain circumstances. From there perhaps the person would be redirected to a medical facility whereby their would be *medications* available, a department for *psychology* and substance abuse, book reading therapy etc..
This is in real life in a psychiatric hosptial where suicidal individuals are placed in the most approiate care, whereby real doctors, nurses and health professionals are responsible for the care of the patient.
Here there are such *baords* or internet based windows whereby you can type and view text, but they are not real world, they're virtual cyber based posting internet forums. People here are not responsible for the care of a suicidal individual.
On the other hand, the social board could possibly be used as a starting point for someone to get them to the soical services for the real life help they need.
I would imagine Dr Bob as a health professional has first hand experienced dealing with suicide as he is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. I would also imagine he has possibly had responsiblity for the care of patients who are suicidal.
However, Dr Bob's responsiblity of this website is an Administrator. He is responsible for the admistration of each board. From what I understand he is not responsible for anyones medical care here, be it if they are suffering un-wanted side effects from medication to suicidal idealation.
Deneb's posts from what I gather from previous posts, thinks about Dr Bob quite alot, and from what has happened with her posting on social, which she is responsible for, has the results of gaining Dr Bobs attention to the extream, because of the nature of the posts could be viewed as suicide notes in some ways and so being of the very delicate matter it is, Dr Bob has to Administrate this accordingly.
I also understand from the thread on social that Deneb is crying for many hours whilst missing school and staying at home, sleeping till 3pm. Hopefully her parents will be aware of how she is feeling, hopefully her parents will pick up on this and she will recieve the appropriate help.
Kind regards
Nick
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