Posted by ksvt on November 18, 2000, at 17:31:44
In reply to Re: Miscellaneous Reactions to the Board-Long, posted by stjames on November 17, 2000, at 21:18:47
> >I'm sorry james but I agree with julesvox on this. Not everyone has your curiousity and the knowledge of how to satisfy it. I don't make alot of use of the internet. My computer time is limited, my phone lines very poor which ruins my modem speed, and I'm easily overwelmed by too much information, so I can get pretty frustrated quickly with the whole process of information retrieval and information analysis. I have a pdoc who is more than willing to throw a ton on information at me in the form of journal articles etc, but i don't have a scientific background and its hard for me to slog through this stuff. Because I have never revealed my situation to very many people, what I have always lacked most of all is the sort of anecdotal data so available on this site, and the comfort that comes from being able to communicate with people who can actually understand what's happening to you. The first piece of that I could get out of the archives, although I've tried that and found it to be too too much. I also think that doing the kind of research you seem to be talking about requires that someone be ready to take a measure of control of their treatment. I was treated for depression for a couple of years before I reached that stage. When I'm not having meds concernes myself, I don't spend alot of time on the PB site. When I'm there, I get some satisfaction from being able to help people who are newer at this than I am. I also find it easy enough to skip right by those kinds of posts when I don't want to pitch in. I can understand your frustration that the PB site deals with issues and questions that are too basic for you, but I also think it doesn't necessarily speak poorly of people that they don't dive right into the archives. just my humble opinion. ksvt
ouch. appreciate your observations, stjames ... but am thinking if i am to search a FAQ for my problems, that doesn't really make it an interactive board, does it?
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> James here....
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> Huh ? If you search the archives, which are derived from the interactive sessions, how does this make the board interactive. Keep in mind that many people that post useful info leave the
> board, so the archives are the only way to find
> this info.
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> The other way to look at this is that people are lazy. With a connection to the internet, which has
> huge resources, some sill will not take any active
> role in finding their info and expect others to search the internet for them. If one can make it to this board then an internet search engine is not beyond their abilities. The information presented here, while often of excellent quality, is biased. An internet search can return primary source materials, the holy gail of research.
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> I've been on the internet a long time. Back in the SLIP days, using gopher, shell accounts, archie, ect. Now it is so easy to look stuff up.
> I also found it very healing to activly find stuff on my own. Because the internet did not have this info back then I used the Library, lucky to live near a major one. I worked digallanty to understand things and would like to
> see others do this, too. Ethically, because I am not a doctor, I would prefer people to not say " I understand X because James told me about it" but "James pointed me to X and I found Y and Z, so now I understand it"
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> Am a bitching too much ? Well, I do get e-mails for people on this board and other places that say "don't post URL's, I don't like to surf" or "quit posting those studies, I don't read them" Sigh ! How egocentric, like they are to only ones out there ! This attitude seems to indicate some "expect" others to do all the reading and digest it for them. I am so happy when someone says "I went to that link and there are a few things I do not understand" or even " I went there and understood nothing, could you help ?" The internet is not a souped up TV, where you turn it on and go passive.
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> james
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