Posted by 10derHeart on November 1, 2009, at 19:55:52
In reply to Re: yes, but..... » psych chat, posted by muffled on November 1, 2009, at 18:28:17
>>*really, they have a security to stop google?????? Thats neat!
I have hugely mixed feelings here. Stop Google. Hmm. You see, you could be talking about me. Five years ago, if something had stopped Google from pointing me to Babble, I might have died or at least made a suicide attempt, I was in such a bad state. I credit about 50% Babble and 50% finding a new T. back then (BUT that was months AFTER Babble - the psychology board was my T. for a while and they really did save me from a lot of awful stuff...) with stopping me. That is an awfully large percentage.
What if I couldn't have found a place like Babble? Okay, maybe another avenue would have opened and I would have found a way to feel better w/o Babblers. I place those things in God's hands anyway. But who knows? I hate the thought of others just like me, in extreme emotional agony, isolated, in horrible grief, unable to talk to anyone IRL, thinking no one has EVER felt what they are feeling before, pretty much wracked with shame and pain, being "shielded" from places Like Babble - and Psyche Central for that matter. Are we sure that is an altogether desirable thing? It sounds good to be really, really private (to me, too)...but...sheesh, in 2004, I wouldn't have had the energy, mental ability (too depressed) or technical knowledge to do much else BUT Google, as that wasn't so hard. How *would* I have found Babble?
Five years ago, when THANK GOD I found Babble by typing in something like "in love with therapist" or maybe "my therapist is leaving" into Google, it changed my life for the better, and may well have saved it. Knowing that, I feel really uncomfortable viewing security layers so good they stop Google as completely good.
I know and remember I was once "they" and "them" and I NEEDED desperately to find "us."
Does anyone understand what I am saying?
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