Do people just not like me?

Obviously you are not . . .

Pep ( . . . or you wouldn't have posted)

First is - Kaos Jansma is right on. I'm an RN too - the accepted wisdom is that any threat of suicide has to be taken seriously.

Second - sorry snarkies, but in this setting your responses are just really irresponsible and self serving. Please try to interrupt that. A person is suffering here, and you're not helping. Would you want that, if it was you? Knock it off.

Third - compassionate, competent, experienced psychiatric help is the gold standard - probably the only standard. There's just not much else out there that's evidence-based. There are a lot of people in SL who represent alternative positions and therapies - but trends are trends, and medicine in general is getting a lot better and figuring out what works and what doesn't. I think Briana's comments were really helpful in that regard.

Cassandra honey - as a mom and an RN who's made her own way out of the junk and the crap, I can tell you that it's not easy - but it really is true: the old saying? Flowers really do grow from shit. If you die, then you'll never get to see that happen. Even better - to see yourself *make* it happen. Hang tough, lil sister.

I've met them all here in sl, stuck up people, assholes, super sweet ones that will go out of their way to help you out, and plenty of others that are just fun.

What I've learned is that even if you have a long list of people, that doesn't mean most of those people are good friends, or that their even people that go out of their way to say hello. For the most part, you won't have too many friends like that.

But one of the coolest thing of sl, is that there's always someone new to meet! Just go check out that profile, say hello, wave at them, and if they dont' respond, don't take it personally, they may be busy, or they don't notice the message in chat or in their im's. So move on and say hello to the next person you see that seems interesting.

Or chat up a noob, they always need help, and they appreciate it. Besides, you may make a long time friend that way.

But just look through these forums and see how many people are silly, fun, and helpful. It's a far cry from everyone being stuck up in sl.

Does RN mean Royal Navy? My wife is a nurse too, and her "accepted wisdom" is such that she seems to think that drinking enough water cures anything. I don't even want it in my scotch!

I'll take the view that "this setting" is not the place to express your cries for help, real or otherwise, and that it is an entirely inappropriate setting for any serious discussion of the issues. You are entitled to your belief, as I am to mine.

If only "compassionate, competent, experienced psychiatric help" was freely available. My experience is that help tends to be dispensed largely by amateurs and charlatans who are more disturbed than their patients.

At last something that I might agree with.

Pep (Have you got a reference for non-narrative evidence based research for that last contention though?)

It's not helping with that multiple-personality disorder though, is it, Immy?

Pep (I might be wrong of course)

Pep.

In the past I've generally thought of your posts as being humorous but I have to say that in these last few days, your posts have been obnoxious, both in this thread and the new one that Yummy started today. They are the posts of a genuinely nasty mind. I've completely changed my opinion of you.

That!

Well, since it's "Truth or Dare" time apparently I had better confess that my opinion of you has *not* changed.

Pep (Nor of you Sable)

Cool, now we both have something we agree on. Bring on your last word.

Pep... You seem to be the one who needs help. Please get some before you post again.

You must be right, because you wannabe thespians are so sensitive and insightful, and expert in the field of personality disorders, aren't you! Thank you so much for the advice.

Pep (Do you know where I can buy some rose tinted glasses like yours?)

Seems like you are the expert, mate. Pot calling the kettle black?

Hey, you got the joke! well done!

Pep (Or perhaps you didn't)

Your formula is pretty old and tired there P... I've only been here a while and I'm sick of it's constant ridicule of everyone, but a trolls gotta eat, right?

Again?

Pep (In English this time?)

Try this opinion out for him:

http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html

Ah Pep. I made the mistake of logging in from my blackberry to check this thread and truly regret doing so.

I say this from the heart and as the friends we have been. I am truly disappointed in you.

You're a far better man than this and I wish you would find him again because this guy that you're being currently is a true jackass and hateful. You are breaking my heart.

I keep on telling you - I only got 5/15.

Pep (Is 33% a pass mark in North America?)

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