[ SECRET POST #2567 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2567 ⌋

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Comments

Re: More power to you.

[nyxelestia]

Herongale and the anon explained a lot of it, so I'm not going to rehash their arguments. I would like to suggest, however, that if you do work in a psychiatric field, then while on one hand you do have invaluable insight that the rest of us laymen can't match, on the other hand your experience will also be heavily skewed in particular directions.

Again, I get where you're coming from. I believe that you genuinely just want to help, and are approaching this the same way you might approach an actual patient or close friends about this same issue in real life. As many others have pointed out, it's just a little sketchy in this context and with this persistence.

I'll also add that a lot of this is projected tones. Whether you mean it to or not, your comments have come off as passive-aggressive. I do not have a mental illness, but surrounded by people who do and often defending them, I've heard a lot of passive-aggressive concern trolling and insistence that they are just exaggerating their problems or simply haven't tried everything* because if they did, they wouldn't be mentally ill. This attitude is dismissive of the fact some people have severe problems that just don't respond to treatment, or compounded problems wherein treating one problem exaggerates another problem (an issue a close friend of mine faces - almost any medication she takes for her mental problems exacerbates issues with her physical health problems, and many treatments she takes for her physical problems create hormone imbalances that further screw up her mental problems).

* = that they can, which is another layer you should be aware of if you live in the U.S. as your profile says - sometimes even if someone hasn't tried "everything", they've tried everything they can afford, and even if there is some treatment out there that can help them, if it's not covered by their insurance then for many people it might as well not exist for all the help they can get from it. Now, we don't know where OP lives so for all we know they live in a country where it's a moot point, but your comments still tend to have an unintended but nasty sting to them when you post with an "are you sure you've tried everything?" attitude - maybe they know very well they haven't and it's because they can't afford some of the other treatment options.