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| | Notices | Welcome to PTSD Forum. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a life threatening, debilitating disorder that can break down a sufferer’s body through anxiety and stress. Further it poses a significant suicide risk resulting from the brains neurological imbalance and chemical depression. Sufferers often live in denial, thus this community is aimed at helping PTSD sufferers help themselves through others experiences, guidance and education. We are here for the sufferer, spouse and families surrounding PTSD. Spouses and family are too often forgotten in this equation, and often they receive all the worst that PTSD has to offer. If you're involved in any way with PTSD, get registered and help yourself now. Non-active members will eventually be deleted. If you are not a sufferer, carer or someone within the mental health industry, and active, then there is little reason for you to be a member of this forum. Non-active members with zero posts are deleted periodically during the year. |  | | 
05-10-2007, 10:39 AM
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I must add though SP, that the member here is a carer looking for support, and whilst we with PTSD already know the outcome of our behaviours, carers to a new relationship who didn't know their partner had PTSD do not... that we must be understanding off and direct them. You are blunt though, and there is nothing wrong with that.
Again, I do believe you have very valid opinions.... blunt, though valid. |
12-10-2007, 07:12 AM
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I think I understand why Rachel never came back. She was looking for advice and support, but I can´t see that that´s what she got. Perhaps there´s nothing wrong in being blunt, but there´s nothing wrong in being compassionate either. |
15-10-2007, 01:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Alienne I think I understand why Rachel never came back. She was looking for advice and support, but I can´t see that that´s what she got. | The problem though Alienne, is that you won't always get what you want, and a person must fight their own fears in order to continue posting to get what they want and disregard what they do not want.
Online communities are tough at the best of times, and you really must just have thick skin, develop it even if you want to participate, then jump in and stick by your own guns. Be willing to accept others opinions and different angles of approach. Saying that, if you don't like what is being said, you simply ignore it and continue posting disregarding what you do not find useful. |
16-10-2007, 06:38 AM
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The discussion above is, in my opinion, just as valid as it is interesting, BUT I feel it does not really belong in the introductions section. It should in fact be moved and get its very own thread as I guess it would make an interesting topic for many to debate!
Following quote reads from under the Break the Ice-sections heading: "This Forum is to break the ice...the initial anxiety of posting in a community thinking others will judge." And please correct me here if I´m wrong, but isn´t the discussion above quite judgemental in it´s tone? We as an audience, I feel, do not know enough about "R´s" personal circumstances to be drawing generalising conclusions referring to her "problem", as I feel has been made above. "R" was looking for help and to connect with people who were finding themselves in circumstances similar to hers, not to get her head bitten off.
Besides, I haven´t seen any other new member recieving that kind of welcome. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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