Posted by kid_A on February 8, 2002, at 10:41:21
In reply to Re: How has PB affected you? » Dinah, posted by fi on February 8, 2002, at 5:49:31
Finding this board for me was, i hate cliched words, a godsend... Its been a vast resource for me not only in medication information which is what I initially used the board for, but also in finding others who could understand what I was going through and who didn't judge my actions in the ways that other non-afflicted people have.It's probably too archaic an organization to be remembered but long ago, I stumbled across the alt.sucide.holiday usenet thread and accompanying FAQ... Grimly enough the FAQ described various methods of suicide and provided many links about suicide... Some of the posters on the newsgroup came together to form the #ash IRC channel... IRC for those who havent used it is a much more robust form of Internet chat than normaly is found on boards like Yahoo and the like, and has been a staple of the internet community since well before there were shrines to Britney Spears by the hundreds...
The point to this long rambling post was that as a group, a regular if not sometimes wavering small group of us regularly chatted on #ash, not about suicide but just as friends, supporting each other through trials and problems and generally making friends... It seems odd that something so helpfull can come from something that seems so insideous as a conpendium of information on the act of suicide, but the process of coming together, what Marshall Mcluhan called "Group Experience" created an environment of caring people who were honestly interested and involved in the well being of the other participants...
Thats exactly what I've found here, and it's why I keep coming back... Open expands these possibilities by providing what the old #ash IRC channel did, realtime interactive chat with the participants of this board. Getting to see that there are people beyond the depression, that these people are more than just their DSMII description... Thanks to everyone who I've had the fortune to talk w/ here, thanks for reading my poetry, thanks for your input, thanks for sticking around.
-(a)
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