Posted by psych chat on October 30, 2009, at 10:04:15
In reply to Re: sickening » psych chat, posted by 10derHeart on October 29, 2009, at 21:47:41
I meant practicing psychiatrist, not psychiatrist...
"I'm not sure you or I or anyone who does not know Dr. Bob intimately, or isn't his doctor, therapist, etc., can accurately make that assessment."
You are right, 10der, and I was referring to how I perceive him to be only based upon his behavior on this forum, and after knowing 2 people in my life who do not have empathy. After my experience having conversations with people who have that trait, it's quite easy for me to identify the pattern. I was shocked to see his brief comment below in response to Dinah's leaving - Dinah who has been his loyal deputy for how long?? But yes, I do not know him outside of here to be able to know if this is true about him outside of what I see here...
Maybe it would be more appropriate to say that it doesn't seem like he has any understanding of our concerns? I mean, he still hasn't addressed some of the 'big' questions - examples:
If the purpose of this community is support, and most of us have stated his recent actions are unsupportive, then why is he still doing this?
Also, he has stated over and over he wants Babble to be a civil environment. However, Dinah was basically recently bullied off this board! He did not even address this (unless I missed it somewhere). The icons have created uncivilty. Dinah was so upset that people were either clicking the icons of her comments, or linking them to facebook accounts. She was CLEARLY bullied - yet he did nothing that I could see. Maybe it would be reasonable to say this is not fact; maybe it *just happened* to be her posts where people accidentally clicked or tested those icons. I am doubting that, though. It seemed the more she got upset about this, the more people-or a person-were clicking the icons under her posts. These icons have already created an uncivil environment.
I tend to see if a person's ACTIONS match their WORDS. You can tell alot more about people by comparing these 2 factors, rather than simply forming an opinion according to words said.
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