Posted by CherC68 on July 27, 2003, at 15:56:38
In reply to What is the Effexor Club?? » NThompson, posted by gabbix2 on July 27, 2003, at 14:03:44
Sorry Gabbix2 - The Effexor Club was a name one of the posters came up with because we had been posting in Psycho Babble (the medicine part of babble) under the Effexor section for a while now. It was a group of people and we had gotten to know each other through postings.
Since some of us are not on Effexor anymore and since we got to know each other and give so much support to each other - we started talking more about our personal lives instead of talking about the medicines we were on.
Dr. Bob had redirected our posts to Social Babble and many of us could not find our posts - and some had posts that could not be responded to because we couldn't find it.
When this happened it turned many of our worlds upside down - we were used to posting in a certain section, had posts out with no response and it seemed like our bond had been broken.
Don't get me wrong, any newcomers to posting in the original Effexor section was more than welcome and we did our best to help answer questions and include them at all times. This was not a sorority or an exclusive club.
Believe me, I bet you that there is not one person who posts on Babble that really want to be here. We would rather be fine, no meds, no depression, no anxiety, no crisis, no mental crap, but, we have all those and we loved coming to Babble every single day and hear from each other.
The move to social babble was too much for most of us to take. The redirect in many of our eyes felt like rejection.
Our heels are cooling a bit now, and we are gathering our thoughts and don't want to loose the bond we had. Also, a few girls stated that they feel bad that there are others in the original Babble that are not going to benefit from our help.
It's not exclusive, its just that it may take us time to adjust to coming to "Social" babble.
I've been looking through social babble and notice several postings by the same people and that's exactly what we had - but in Psycho Babble - not Social Babble.
I hope this clarifies it a bit for you - and want you to know that it wasn't really an Effexor Club, I'm not on Effexor any longer, but it was just a bond of posters helping each other by listening, caring and offering suggestions whether it be about the medicine, about therapy or lack thereof and of personal crisis.
Take Care,
Cher
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