Posted by beardedlady on June 10, 2002, at 10:34:25
In reply to Re: Another example..., posted by Dr. Bob on June 10, 2002, at 9:51:39
And I just posted a med-related question/comment on the therapy board. That's because the conversation went in a different direction, as often good conversations do. And I still agree with all the folks who have complained about redirecting threads in the middle of them because the subject has changed. Eventually, it peters out anyway, but it doesn't ruin the integrity of the boards to have the conversation veer off; in fact, it has just the opposite effect.
It's pretty difficult to talk about one thing in exclusion of all others. A conversation should be allowed to take its natural course--yes, even if it veers a little to include meds. (My complaint on PPB was that I had a therapy question and folks were answering it with meds. I started the thread and said that if I'd wanted to talk about meds, I'd have posted on the med board. It doesn't mean that they can't be mentioned. We don't live in a vacuum!)
But it's quite a different thing to post an entirely new thread about meds on the therapy board or about therapy on the med board.
I would hope that your goal here is, as you have said, support. It's great to limit the boards to "just being social" or "psycho-therapy" or "med-related issues"; at the same time, however, you must allow people to get better by getting the most helpful responses, which often means a multi-faceted answer.
beardy
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