Shanazel
Moderator
Wow, I stay off line a day and come home to a new flapdoodle. Never a dull moment at OD.
A number of people here at OD (including me) have their own challenges that range from bi-polar disorder to major depression to dissociative disorder. Using any of those challenges as an excuse for antisocial behavior is not acceptable, perhaps especially to those of us dealing with our own issues. There are enough stigmas and steoptypes connected to psychological disorders without reinforcing those them on-line.
Medication for psychological disorders exists and it generally works quite well if the a person takes it regularly and according to directions. If a person is having a particularly bad day it is a good idea to check medications, call one's counselor, one's doctor, and get it under control before going out in society, be that society your home town K-Mart or Oriental Dancer.
No judgement here, just personal experience. Another bit of personal experience is that forum members are compassionate folks who are willing to forgive a bad mood or slip of the computer keys and who are also willing to deal with an occasional lapse in medication or deal with a person whose disorder is not controllable with meds. (Anyone seen our dear Dan of the cartoons lately?)
We aren't quite as good at accepting personal abuse, but we do accept sincere apologies and allow bygones to be bygones.
A number of people here at OD (including me) have their own challenges that range from bi-polar disorder to major depression to dissociative disorder. Using any of those challenges as an excuse for antisocial behavior is not acceptable, perhaps especially to those of us dealing with our own issues. There are enough stigmas and steoptypes connected to psychological disorders without reinforcing those them on-line.
Medication for psychological disorders exists and it generally works quite well if the a person takes it regularly and according to directions. If a person is having a particularly bad day it is a good idea to check medications, call one's counselor, one's doctor, and get it under control before going out in society, be that society your home town K-Mart or Oriental Dancer.
No judgement here, just personal experience. Another bit of personal experience is that forum members are compassionate folks who are willing to forgive a bad mood or slip of the computer keys and who are also willing to deal with an occasional lapse in medication or deal with a person whose disorder is not controllable with meds. (Anyone seen our dear Dan of the cartoons lately?)
We aren't quite as good at accepting personal abuse, but we do accept sincere apologies and allow bygones to be bygones.