Posted by violette on July 22, 2010, at 13:55:39
In reply to Re: Check This Out! Bob Shares........... » violette, posted by fayeroe on July 22, 2010, at 13:16:50
Yeah, Dr. Grohol's concerns for privacy and safety is basically what I'd expect from a forum administrator who works in the mental health field. The disclaimer here - "posting gives me permission to do what I wish with your posts" (paraphrased) was very misleading to me, as I did not expect lack of safety and privacy concerns by a psychiatrist....If this wasn't the case, I'd have thought otherwise.
I rarely post at Psych Central since I discovered you are unable to edit your posts after some limited time...but the moderators said they would delete/edit posts upon request. I don't want to have a habit of posting anywhere where you are unable to later edit posts for various reasons...
Instead, I use a very supportive forum that allows editing at any time, and it has worked well there. People usually say I had to delete this or that because of x y z..people are so understanding. I was surprised to come across reasons people have edited or brought up the issue, things I did not think about...such as one person having felt 'exposed' while experiencing a change in mental health symptoms..(imagine the suffering if you were having a breakdown or psychotic breakthrough related to your posts and could not remove them-such as extreme paranoia) or another with a stalker IRL...
Anyway, I would feel comfortable here posting brief, one line medication questions or something here and there. But yeah, as far as forum improvements here, the safety and privacy issues helped steer me away from discussions here..as anyone with an imagination can think of reasons why aspects of this forum aside from the members could be detrimental to a person's mental health or someone's life in general.
There's a lot of things about this site that can worsen mental health. Thanks for pointing that out.
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