Re: Look!!! He's acting a bit 'weird'!

On Jun 10, 10:05 am, firemonkey <tim...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Angel Eyes wrote:
As I said before, if we only allowed people suffering purely with
depression to post here then the group would be extremely quiet indeed,
almost non-existant!

Now, remind me nigel, which mental illness do you suffer with and what
are your reasons for posting to this group?

Even though Nigel is not, as far as i know, suffering from a mental
illness he is an interesting contributor to this group.
As for his position re Sgates i have mixed views. I will freely admit
that on a few occasions i have been banned from forums for behaving in a
similar manner to Sgates. Once was on the Rethink forums where due to be
being badly stressed by a fellow poster i was later told by yet another
poster i had made in the region of 70+ rather out there posts in a night!
Although the posts in themselves were not targetted at anyone ie just
generalised rants some people found them quite disturbing.
There was no intention to harm others(which i believe is the case with
Sgates) but nevertheless they did affect others in an adverse way
that may have been detrimental to their mental health.
There is no option on those forums to ignore posts by certain users as
there is the ability to use a killfile here.

Thee sheer volume of posts from Sgates over such a time would possibly
indicate that there is a degree of dysphoric mania/ mixed state going on.
It is very hard to reason with a person in the throws of such dysphoria
and therefore Sgates would not be someone who could currently be
reasoned with however that is not the same as saying he should find
somewhere else to post.
Better for him to unleash some of the verbal maelstrom here than in 3D.
Generally people here will be comparatively more understanding than in 3D.

Going back to Nigel finally. I think one could find as much fault in the
villification of Nigel as one could the stance he has taken over Sgates.
Indeed where is the difference between Nigel's belief that Sgates should
post elsehere and your very  pointed

'Now, remind me nigel, which mental illness do you suffer with and what
are your reasons for posting to this group?@



Sgates should be here .Whether one chooses to read/reply to his posts or
indeed killfile him is down to the indiividual.

It is good for us as mentally ill people that Nigel as a non mentally
ill person is here and it would be better still if more such people were
willing to engage here and in doing so get a better idea of what we go
through as mentally ill people.

It would be a sad day if the likes of Sgates and indeed Nigel were
driven away by a pitch fork mentality.

I felt this too but didn't have the guts to get involved since I agree
with both of them to a large extent - I read one side & agree, then
the other & see their pov also.

I don't think anyone should try to stop sgates posting & I also regret
having said he was a PITA but actually I also somewhat resent not
being able to say he is a PITA if that's the way I feel, since I doubt
it would have affected him & if I can't say what truly bugs me then it
may not be worth me posting here anyway.

What I find most distressing isn't sgates or people saying anything
about him but the palpable anger that I detect in these long winded
acrimonious arguments between different members of the group which
result in name-calling & it is these types of posts that I think would
put a newbie off.

Can't we just put this behind us & as I've been advised in the past,
shake hands & get back to trying to make this a support group.

.

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