Posted by so on May 23, 2005, at 1:25:32
In reply to Re: or.... » Dinah, posted by Shy_Girl on May 23, 2005, at 0:45:57
> Hi Dinah...
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> you wrote:>
> I think this is *very* good idea. Hope it is added. :-)
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Sorry, not to step on Shy_Girl's recomend, but if she advocates such verbage, I want to help refine it. Thing is, not everyone here has a personal mental health provider. Maybe the majority do, but that might be where I differ -- I subscribe to a school of self-care that includes mental health self care. I'll be neutral about whether people should rely on systematic caregivers, but I suggest the site should to -- unless the purpose is to promote clinical mental health care, it would do best to recognize the range of approaches people use to care for their mental health. Claiming clinics are the sole or even usual source of care is not appreciative of the vast majority of people who find help elsewhere -- it tends to minimize the problems of those who don't seek clinical care, or suggest there is no other remedy. It tends to categorize mental health problems as seeking a clinical diagnosis. Everyone but everyone has mental health problems, some severe and never clinically diagnosed. Many find help outside clinical approaches.
I just don't spend time reading FAQ's before posting to every site I visit. I agree the method of enforcement would do well to appear prominently on a page one can't register without seeing, but the "your healthcare provider" would be lost on me.Slant wise, I would accept the rules more readily in that format if they were presented as Hsiung's unique rules for this site -- not as a standard of what is "civil" -- because when asks me to be civil that is what I aspire too --- standards I have encountered in real life for longer than Hsiung has been alive. I don't consider his rules of writing to define civility -- in his forum or anywhere else. To the contrary, his claim to own the concept of civility confounds my understanding. I simply don't appreciate being called uncivilized should I not meet his standard of owning my emotions and those of everyone who might potentially feel something upon reading what I write.
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