Posted by zenhussy on June 24, 2004, at 22:06:30
Please note that *I* am expressing my loss here in my post and while this board allows for comments I beseech anyone with the need to question my grief to start a new thread out of courtesy.
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I grieve for the loss of a sense of fostered support by the administration of this board.I posted here in winter/spring of 1999 for the first time. I found and followed those that are no longer here. One can only hope they are doing better but sadly through the close babblevine I know some are still in the same arduous battles they've been waging all their lives.
I grieve for their loss of support and dignity they once had here.
I grieve that I no longer feel this place (the actual little 1s and 0s that make up this 'site' as it is) is of any safety to me.
I will be mourning for a long time the unknown status of many who were shown the door.
I will be mourning the loss of many friends I once held so dear as without this site it is damned near impossible to stay in touch with all those one would like to.
I am sad that the archives are swiss cheesed and much of my posting history no longer remains. That part of my life was chronicled here because I was hardly able to lay pen to paper. But hey I'm only someone with mental illness so what does my life count for, eh? At least I do have many posts printed out to show pdoc and therp. and without this ability I would be even more lost with dx than I am now.
Again I grieve this place that fostered such an incredible array of people in dialogues of such differing subject ranging from meds to philosophy to legitimate medication info (there used to be a couple of folks who posted that shared their credentials and in one particular incident that information I had asked for saved my kidneys from going into failure)....
I could go on ad nauseum about how much there is to grieve for and I'm sure some will come up with a 'let's celebrate babble' and post away with all the bazillions of good it does them and theirs.
I grieve for the one who has their head embeded so deeply in the dirt ostrich-like hoping and praying that the inevitable won't happen.
It will. And for that I cry.
--zh
poster:zenhussy
thread:360034
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/grief/20040220/msgs/360034.html