Posted by Peter C on June 18, 2000, at 19:14:34
In reply to Bipolar:Salt's better than Sugar…read all about it, posted by Janice on June 18, 2000, at 17:09:26
Whew - that is a lot of vitriol, unfounded accusation, hatred and bullying.
For the record, the only posts on this thread created by the creator of boBB are the posts by Peter C. and the boBB posts.
On the matter of "pushing buttons," Robert Hsuing misleads his fans when he suggests that the creator of BBob is responsible for anyone else's feelings. Most clinicians endeavor to help clients become responsible for their own feelings. Robert Hsuing does not seem to hold contributors of this board responsible for boBB's feelings. Instead he seems to perceive correctly that (the creator of) boBB tries to hold himself responsible for his own feelings. Perhaps boBB is foolish to think others here are mature enough to do the same, but believes failure to own one's feelings reflects more of a muturity problem than a mental disease.
the PeterC data about the lithium study was posted as a public service. Bobb (Peter C)graciously posted bare-bones information and omitted intelligent criticisms of the study to leave room for intelligent replies by so-called experts on this board. The style of the origninal post reflected an intent to avoid "pushing buttons." An intelligent discussion also could have broached the placebo question, to consider how the promise of help might effect unsettled novelty assessment networks in the brain. Instead, some of the replies seemed to reflect deficits in the respondents neurocircuits that faciltitate novelty assessment.
(I suspect that assessment will be "going to far" in Robert Hsuings arbitrary court, whereas a week of hatred and unquailfied diagnosis against bobB will go unquestioned)
Bobb does not participate more actively in this discussion now because:
* some people are allowed to call names and make but others are not.
* contributors who masquerade as psychopharmacology experts resort to emotional abuse when challenged, violating protocols of scientific discussion.
* anonymous posting is prohibited. Unless a contributor's server logs an ISP number into the University of Chicago computer that serves this site, the board will not accept a contribution.
* we suspect Robert Hsuing and his cabal of student interns have used this web site to selectively deliver destructive viruses to contributors with whom he disagrees.Also for the record, many here are wrongly attempting to diagnose the author of boBB as a sufferer of some multipersonality condition. They forget that their is a rich history of misdiagnosis of multipersonality disorder. The error was largeley caused by a small group of clinical psychologists and by popular authors of psychobabble books (not the board - the genre). Those concerned with stigmas associated with mental disease would do well not to perpetuate the myth of "split personality." Further reading on the topic is available in the medical folklore section of health sciences libraries. Also, remember that psuedonymic writing has been a common practice in Western literary history.
Robert Hsuing could easily debunk the malicious myth of boBB being some of the other regulars on this board, but has apparently chosen instead to encourage the myth. The university of chicago professor is well aware of the limited number of ISP's associated with the pseudonyms associated with boBB, which do not include ISP numbers used by Odzilla, Cass, Claire7, todd, janice, shar, Cam W or SLS.
As for boBB not being a journalist, that is correct. He is not. Bobb is a fictitous psuedonym created by a journalist. The creator of boBB enjoys taking inspirational breaks from his tedious job of hacking out routine community news to read such misguided and ill-informed speculation that he is not employed as a writer. the Creator of boBB might someday appear in one of your favorite publications as the author of a work you truly admire. Remember the king who wore pauper's clothing....
And as for boBB (or his creator) being an English major, no... his spellling should offer sufficient evidence to the contrary. BoBB is a high school drop-out who learned about reportin, journalism, writing, neruoscience and logic as an autodidat, relying on books acquired in used book stores and libraries, as well as personal consultation with working professionals and by participating in such challenging forums as this one.
This post was contributed from a more secure server, which will suffer less damage if Robert Hsuing is in fact delivering destructive programs from his web site. The matter of maliciuos programs possibly being distributed by the creators of this board is the subject of an ongoing investigation.
poster:Peter C
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