To mirandathejoy: First of all, let me apologize to you if you were personally hurt by what I said. I certainly don't think I was offensive, but let me try to shed some light on why I said what I said:
While you certainly have valid views (most of which I agree with, actually, so please don't jump to conclusions), I am not going to use verbminx's journal as a forum for discussion about societal attitudes towards mental illness. This isn't the place, nor the time, unless she opens the floor for it.
She is discussing a personal issue in her own personal journal, just as you do in your own journal, I'm sure. I feel it is frankly presumptuous of you to judge her for her reactions to the stressors in her life, which are posted in her own personal journal. Actually, her reactions are a lot better than most people's...she has empathy towards the person in question, and recognizes the difficulties inherent in the situation.
The fact is: she has her problems; you have yours; I have mine. We each use our journals as we each see fit. But we use our OWN journals to bare our hearts and souls and convictions...not other people's.
My comment about not reading her entries if they're so upsetting to you was not meant to offend. Merely a suggestion...you obviously are passionate about the issue, but using someone else's journal to take issue with peoples' attitudes about mental illness, or any other issue, for that matter, is inappropriate.
Finally, please don't rush to make assumptions about me, or anyone else, for that matter. You know nothing about my own personal experiences with mental illness, and if I weren't a fairly reasonable person, I'd frankly be offended at your rush to judge me and lecture me on the topic. I agree with you about the majority of your points, but railing against someone you don't even know, in a third person's journal, no less, is no way to win them over to your p.o.v. Go to town in your own journal, I say, but leave it out of hers. Let her have her unimpeded say in her own journal.
This will be my last post on the issue, as I don't want to subject verbminx to any more ag on the issue.
== To verbminx: I'm sorry if I caused more ag on your LJ, y0!. (Actually, it looks like it's across the board, but I'm sorry I added to it.) I only meant to be supportive of you and extend my sympathies to the momster and the Kid as well.
This will be my last message on this, so as not to clog up your journal with it, unless you decide to continue the discussion yourself.
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Re: Phwump.
Date: 2003-04-28 01:00 pm (UTC)While you certainly have valid views (most of which I agree with, actually, so please don't jump to conclusions), I am not going to use
She is discussing a personal issue in her own personal journal, just as you do in your own journal, I'm sure. I feel it is frankly presumptuous of you to judge her for her reactions to the stressors in her life, which are posted in her own personal journal. Actually, her reactions are a lot better than most people's...she has empathy towards the person in question, and recognizes the difficulties inherent in the situation.
The fact is: she has her problems; you have yours; I have mine. We each use our journals as we each see fit. But we use our OWN journals to bare our hearts and souls and convictions...not other people's.
My comment about not reading her entries if they're so upsetting to you was not meant to offend. Merely a suggestion...you obviously are passionate about the issue, but using someone else's journal to take issue with peoples' attitudes about mental illness, or any other issue, for that matter, is inappropriate.
Finally, please don't rush to make assumptions about me, or anyone else, for that matter. You know nothing about my own personal experiences with mental illness, and if I weren't a fairly reasonable person, I'd frankly be offended at your rush to judge me and lecture me on the topic. I agree with you about the majority of your points, but railing against someone you don't even know, in a third person's journal, no less, is no way to win them over to your p.o.v. Go to town in your own journal, I say, but leave it out of hers. Let her have her unimpeded say in her own journal.
This will be my last post on the issue, as I don't want to subject
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This will be my last message on this, so as not to clog up your journal with it, unless you decide to continue the discussion yourself.