Posted by SLS on December 25, 2012, at 6:42:30 [reposted on December 26, 2012, at 10:23:10 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Lunacy., posted by LostBoyinNC43 on December 24, 2012, at 23:10:01
> Hi SLS,
Hello, LostBoyinNC43.
> Yes, it was a fascitious, silly joke. A jab at Phil.
>
> As far as me staying here to "help develop my social and communications skills," I dont have the severe social and communications skills some here seem to have.I agree with you that they might not be severe.
> I am of the belief that to develop and maintain social and communications skills, the best approach is to GET OFF the Internet as much as possible.
Balance is important. However, people are not always disposed to creating social lives for themselves otherwise. Depression can be crippling, with simple trips to the bathroom being an effort to accomplish. Getting off the couch when one is anergic, amotivational, or suffering from psychomotor retardation is an unlikely event, although not for any lack of desire to rejoin society. I would have thought that you would empathize with such tragic human conditions.
> The Internet is isolating yourself, even if you are posting to anonymous folks on the WWW such as psychobabble.
I found the opposite to be true. Interacting with people on the Internet is better than no interaction at all.
> I interact with people just fine offline and as you can tell,
How would I be able to tell such a thing? Apparently, you have posted on the Internet untold numbers of times over the past 15 years, including on Usenet groups.
> I dont post much on these boards anymore. And I am better for it.
I don't doubt this. I hope you continue to feel well enough to remain engaged with the world outside of cyberspace.
> I dont need your signature.
Then, I guess both of our needs do not go unmet.
> I'd forget about it if I were you.
You are not me. I will not forget about it just so that you might have an easier time accomplishing your goal. If I have made things more difficult for you, perhaps I have accomplished mine. You really wouldn't know what my goals are, now, would you?
> I thought I'd give the "patients" the chance to sign it first, before I take it other places,
I imagine you find this to be an act of altruistism. You are no less a "patient" than anyone else on Psycho-Babble. You are still being treated with psychotropics, and seem to be convinced that this is a necessity for you to function in society.
> to other kinds of people.
"Us" versus "them"? What kind of people are we? Do you feel that there is a lack of diversity among people who are mentally ill? Isn't that a form of stereotyped profiling? It is Christmas. Stop throwing stones alone in the public square. Everyone is watching. Your actions probably perpetuate stigma, not reduce it.
> Maybe I will get the signatures I need, maybe I wont. Frankly, it wont make a big deal to me one way or another.
Is that how much your mission means to you? I thought you might be devoted to the improvement in the conditions of the mentally ill. You contradict yourself in ways that I find to be unsettling.
> Although it would be kinda cool to hit the 25,000 mark.
So, you do care... but why?
> Merry Christmas,
Yes.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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