Posted by AuntieMel on July 19, 2004, at 17:49:13
In reply to Possible trigger » AuntieMel, posted by Dinah on July 19, 2004, at 16:06:02
OK, I will answer after all. Just can't stop myself, I guess.
I was perhaps trying too hard before to keep in civility guidelines, and ended up being vague instead. And PLEASE, PLEASE don't think for a second that I'm taking sides. I'm way too new here to do that, not knowing all the history and all, and wouldn't do it even if I did.
I'm just cursed with seeing both sides of any issue. Believe me, my life would be a whole lot simpler if I could have an opinion and stick to it.
And I wouldn't dream of trying to judge ANYONE here. I just don't have enough information about what is going on in their life currently or where they are in trying to get better.
Yes, I agree that some of the links you gave were over the top. But, I just can't take them out of context.
> http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/psycho/20040614/msgs/358820.html
At the beginning of the thread (started by someone that was wondering if therapy was making her worse) he seemed to me at least that he was trying to be supportive, share his experience and asked her to try to consider medication if she is feeling suicidal. That seems reasonable to me. But it was immediately followed by a "do not post to me" and the whole thing went downhill from there.
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>http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/psycho/20040614/msgs/358208.html
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Well, I for sure had problems with all the links provided here were from skeptic.com. I would have liked to see something from a trade journal.However, he also mentions that he has been criticized elsewhere for disagreeing. Which has made me (until now) way overly careful NOT to disagree. This, in my opinion, isn't helpful - to me at least. I would love for someone to disagree with me and (logically) show me other things to consider. If I had all the answers I wouldn't be here.
Then later he thanked someone for posting something that wasn't anti-therapy, but did talk about reasonable precautions.Thank you for having the courage to say what you did:
"Not all Ts are good and not all good Ts are right for every person. It can be difficult to find a T that is both good and right for you. It seems that you never find one what was. Research shows that depression is best treated by a combination of medication and talk therapy. I think of it like diabetes, insulin compensates for that biological problem ..."Wonderful
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> http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/psycho/20040603/msgs/354355.html
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Highly sarcastic, in my opinion. Uncalled for.=================================================
> http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/psycho/20040614/msgs/358814.html
> particularly "Because relatively short term therapies are the only ones demonstrated to help Dep. Psychoanalysis has never been shown to help any condition, with the exception of the therapists bank account."Agreed. But isn't it possible that by then anything would have become a p**sing match?
To be honest (hopefully not brutally) I think from what I've read that if blame MUST be assigned that there is plenty to go around. And two (or 20) wrongs still don't make a right.
But all of that happened, and can't be changed now.
poster:AuntieMel
thread:367697
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20040717/msgs/367906.html