Posted by Racer on November 24, 2006, at 12:46:35
In reply to Re: My bulimia and the eating board » poet, posted by Deneb on November 23, 2006, at 21:46:35
> >> > I can't really answer your question about bulimia and the eating board, so I'll ask a question of you: what did you learn from your experience posting on that cancer site?
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> > Poet
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> I learned that I can't keep posting that I'm doing badly over and over again or else people will start to get really upset with me. I have to learn to suffer in silence.
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> Deneb*Deneb, I don't think that's the lesson you learned there, is it? Let me ask you a slightly different question:
When you posted on the cancer board, did you have cancer? Do you think that has anything to do with why people became upset there?
In asking that question, I'm not saying you don't have an eating disorder. I'm asking you if you think the fact that you did not have cancer, yet continued to post that "I'm doing badly over and over again" on that cancer site might have had anything to do with people there becoming upset at your posts.
The PsychoBabble community is a place where people can come for education and support. You can post anything you like, as long as it is within the civility guidelines, and you can post the same thing over and over again. No one is saying you can't continue to post here on this board within this community.
There are, however, consequences for our behavior here. The one I think you're running into, and becoming upset by, is that people won't always give you the response you're hoping for. I think that's what's happened here. Just as you have the right to post whatever you choose to post -- always within the guidelines, of course -- others have the right to respond as they choose -- as long as it's within the guidelines.
I won't comment further on anything else in this thread, beyond saying that I do hope you get help with your problems, because I do believe you when you say you're suffering. I wish you were not suffering, I don't like to see you in pain.
Whether or not you choose to do anything about it, though, is -- as you've pointed out -- your choice.
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