Posted by floatingbridge on June 2, 2011, at 10:40:56
In reply to Re: What is psychobabble? Supportive or cliquey?, posted by wittgensteinz on May 23, 2011, at 17:57:40
Witt,
If it's not to late to respond. I found myself at this board by accident. I meant to push meds. Your post title caught much eye because I have wondered that about the psych board.
Well, because, the first reason being, when I posted awhile back, DaisyM and
Phillipa were the only ones to post. I was in a bad place, off meds, slogging through an accidental year of homeschooling. I was unable to get out of bed.I felt at the time very isolated. How I felt was like the only depressed mom at the park while others (from my vantage) chatted and somehow functioned, even if they did complain of sleep deprivation and the other discomforts and challenges of parenthood.
Yes, this is my baggage. And some posters here will know how much I esteem them, esp because we have exchamged posts on Social or Meds.
I decided to stick with Meds or Social after that. Maybe the silence was because I really was hurting my son and
no one could really say so because it seemed such a mess. I never could be sure and was fearful.I know this post is subjective and
therefore full of holes--I don't want to present evidence of any real sort. I haven't spent regular time here, maybe because I haven't yet come to a real relationship with therapy. I haven't spent regular time here and thereby haven't naturally developed rapport. Maybe this board isn't a good fit for me. And to expect folks who are busy to respond because I drop in with a crisis is, well, an
expectation. And I know expectations are sometimes very unreasonable.Still, it stung. I might be one of the few posters with a young child. Certainly the
magnitude of my depression was
frightening at the time, and there is a
taboo of maternal depression.Sometime ago I did have some good exchanges regarding ptsd. Maybe those folks really are gone.
And if I dropped in more often...
You know some of you are very dear to me. I don't even know whom I would point a finger at.
So no finger pointing. Just my one experience that just about scared me off the pysch board for good. Because it still
haunts me.fb
* and whoever gazes at the stars will never again be quite alone...
c-ptsd & attendant health concerns
poster:floatingbridge
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