Posted by violette on January 4, 2011, at 22:41:48
In reply to Re: public forum, posted by ou812 on January 4, 2011, at 20:57:13
ou812,
I'd agree some of the posts here can be related to patterns resulting from developmental circumstances. The need to 'rescue' can also be a result of developmental circumstances; displacement, etc, can happen very quickly when triggered.
I wish people could be lax about identity and mental health. Some of the greatest discriminators in the US: the federal government; non-psych medical institutions. You're preaching to the wrong choir here...
Plus social media has changed alot in the past decade. When this site was created, I never heard of employers searching prospective employees in Facebook, Google...If I owned my own business, I understand enough about mental illness to not be discriminatory. Can't say the same for other employers, who may be ignorant about it. The legality argument does not hold as it happens all the time.
People here know quite a bit about these problems-imo this really isn't the place to advocate for disclosure of MI because the group here is the last to need 'influencing'.
If the domestic violence seems a bit of a stretch, understood, but maybe there are other situations, such as those experienced by other members here, things you've never personally dealt with, that influence our safety concerns? I have my own personal situation. I don't wish to discuss it in detail, but I'd guess if i told you about it, it might have never crossed your mind.
And about those old posts from a decade ago-that was before internet privacy concerns were commonplace issues. This website has become a Limited Liability Corp. (LLC). I wouldn't be surprised if the owner has been sued in civil court for his refusal to delete posts written here that came back to haunt people a decade later. If he hasn't yet been sued, I could bet that he will be in the future.
Still, after this discussion, i firmly believe the concerns posted by Maxime and I are more than reasonable reactions.
It's interesting how people who have never posted on this forum before suddenly have stakes in the content of this website. Enjoy using your microscope.
poster:violette
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