Posted by Dr. Bob on June 7, 2002, at 16:53:13
In reply to Re: overdose and confusion » Dr. Bob, posted by Zo on June 7, 2002, at 0:36:46
> It's the med board name that... says nothing about meds!
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> beardy : )>
> http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20020510/msgs/5510.htmlTrue, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of confusion there, so I'm reluctant to rock that boat...
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> > Maybe with time you'll get more used to the new arrangement?
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> Maybe you should expain why we should get used to it, when most of us would vote to stay with the originial PB and PSB, with perhaps the reunion board for 2000.When people vote to keep something the way it is, I take that as a sign that they like it that way, which is of course nice. But I still think sometimes change is for the better. If you could please try to accept what I decide and to trust that I'm doing my best to be fair and to do what I think will be good for this community as a whole, I'd really appreciate it.
> So you never did answer the question of why in such a short time you piled on so many new groups.
Wasn't there at least some discussion each time? Also, I think Phil and Susan C made some good points:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20020510/msgs/5502.html
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20020510/msgs/5522.html> Does this have to do with your research? Are you adding these boards to clarify your studies?
This isn't the first time that someone's wondered if "research" is why I'm doing something. As if you're rats I'm giving electric shocks or something. The goal of this research is understanding better "how online communities work and affect the mental health of their members". Giving you electric shocks does *not* further that goal.
> When I grew up my parents made me eat asparagus and I used to gag. Well, I still gagged the last time I tried asparagus. Even the thought of it makes me gag.
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> ShelliI don't mean to be unsympathetic, but these boards can't be all things to all people. I meant it before when I said:
> > it may now be more like a city than a small town... And city life isn't for everyone.
> > http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20020510/msgs/5520.html----
> Expectations (that feedback on a given issue matters) without information (the issue has already been decided) tends to lead to disappointment and bad feeling, don't you think?
Sure, but feedback can matter even if I don't make the decision you want and can matter even after that, since I might change my mind...
> Maybe we don't have much other place to feel at home with friends, in our life . . .But somebody else owns this house. . Invited us here. . . but the house rules are all to make it easier for him?
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> ZoThe house rules are all to make it easier for me?
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> My big beef is with the bifurcation of PSB and PPB. Let's say you meet someone on the street and stop to chat and you talk very socially for awhile and then you ask your friend how things are going and your friend launches into a big explanation about her depression. I've never thought that PSB was "just social" although there are some threads that are just that. But how do you separate out a discussion about how genuinely lousy you feel without talking as well about therapy issues - maybe not discreet issues about a therapist or about the efficacy of specific types of therapys, but certainly what you're trying to work on and address in therapy? There's alot of overlap, and if you look at PSB there are several threads that hardly fit into the category of social chitchat.
I agree, there's a lot of overlap. Maybe post to PSB if you're more interested in support and PPB if you're more interested in information? But like I said before:
> > The important thing is getting help and support, not what board (or where in person) you get them from.
> > http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20020510/msgs/5505.html> Maybe you should get rid of a few extra boards (at least temporarily) and institute a rule that no post will be redirected if it at least partially involves the subject matter of that board.
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> Mair
> http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20020510/msgs/5532.htmlHave I redirected a post that didn't at least partially involve the subject matter of that board?
Bob
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