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Posted by barbaracat on October 4, 2005, at 22:32:15
In reply to reporter seeks interviews, posted by AmyHarmon on August 1, 2005, at 13:22:19
I don't know why I'm getting a weird feeling about this because I was thinking of doing something similar for a book I'm planning to write. Maybe because it's the newspaper article format and the self-diagnosis do-your-own-meds theme. It feels like an invasion of privacy to alert the world to our board and our lives.
And what really is the point? What case is being laid down? What's the agenda? Letting the mass market know we're here might direct some folks needing help to our board, but I can predict that there's going to be a flood of lurkers and curiosity seekers and it will be a different board. Maybe better, maybe not.
I think the difference I feel in asking you all for info for my book is that I'd protect the privacy of my info source like a pit-bull, but I feel like there are alot of breach privacy issues here, like 'if you don't want me to use your name, I won't'. Would any of you really give a reporter your name/phone number/private email on issues this sensitive?
People who seek out and buy a book on mood disorders are likely going to be sympathetic to the issues. Just broadcasting us this way to everyone and sundry doesn't sit right with me - concerns about the difficulties we go through being viewed with respect and empathy. But you can't stop the presses, so I hope whatever gets published leaves us feeling proud instead of pissed. - BarbaraCat
Posted by fires on October 4, 2005, at 23:02:25
In reply to Ummm, uncomfortable about this, posted by barbaracat on September 29, 2005, at 23:54:29
Maybe because it's the newspaper article format and the self-diagnosis do-your-own-meds theme. It feels like an invasion of privacy to alert the world to our board and our lives.
<snip>but I can predict that there's going to be a flood of lurkers and curiosity seekers and it will be a different board.
_______________________________________________Anyone can come here now. There can be no invasion of privacy where there is no privacy.
Also if unwanted visitors come:
"There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails."
Richard Rybolt
Posted by barbaracat on October 5, 2005, at 14:37:35
In reply to Re: Ummm, uncomfortable about this » barbaracat, posted by fires on October 4, 2005, at 23:02:25
> Anyone can come here now. There can be no invasion of privacy where there is no privacy.
**You're absolutely right and it's usually pushing against something that ensures it will happen.
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> Also if unwanted visitors come:
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> "There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails."
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> Richard Rybolt**Love it!! That one's joining my refrigerator door quotations corner.
Here's one:
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
- Robert Frost
Posted by fires on October 5, 2005, at 15:05:39
In reply to Re: Ummm, uncomfortable about this » fires, posted by barbaracat on October 5, 2005, at 14:37:35
> **Love it!! That one's joining my refrigerator door quotations corner.
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> Here's one:
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> "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
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> - Robert Frost
>I also like quotes. The one above is great.
Here's another good one:"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."
- Mark Twain
Posted by barbaracat on October 5, 2005, at 16:24:09
In reply to Re: Ummm, uncomfortable about this » barbaracat, posted by fires on October 5, 2005, at 15:05:39
> > **Love it!! That one's joining my refrigerator door quotations corner.
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> > Here's one:
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> > "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
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> > - Robert Frost
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> I also like quotes. The one above is great.
> Here's another good one:
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> "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."
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> - Mark Twain
**That's wonderful and too true. Here's one back atcha:"Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason."
- Anonymous
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Posted by fires on October 7, 2005, at 20:44:32
In reply to Not uncomfortable about this » fires, posted by barbaracat on October 5, 2005, at 16:24:09
Here's a qoute that my former doctor often paraphrased:
"It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything."
- Joyce Cary
Posted by barbaracat on October 7, 2005, at 21:23:02
In reply to Re: Not uncomfortable about this » barbaracat, posted by fires on October 7, 2005, at 20:44:32
**That took me a few readings to get but then I got it and said 'yes! absolutely totally true!'
Here's one of my favorites. I don't remember who said it, a guest on Fresh Aire who eventually died of lung cancer, might have been Guy van Zandt:"I don't have a problem with death. It's getting there that's the tough part." (Yep, it's called Life.)
This is fun. Keep 'em coming. Maybe we should move this to Books or someplace besides Admin? - Barbara
> Here's a qoute that my former doctor often paraphrased:
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> "It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything."
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> - Joyce Cary
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Posted by Dr. Bob on October 12, 2005, at 2:55:19
In reply to Re: Not uncomfortable about this » fires, posted by barbaracat on October 7, 2005, at 21:23:02
> Here's one of my favorites. I don't remember who said it...
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> This is fun. Keep 'em coming. Maybe we should move this to Books or someplace besides Admin?How about Social? Here's a link:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20051007/msgs/565941.html
Thanks,
Bob
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