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23 Sep 2022 07:11 AM
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@Historylover, @Appleblossom , yes, I'm still here, and still as fine as can be expected. πŸ™‚ Thank you for your concern, all the same. I hadn't made any conscious decision to wander away from these forums, but I guess it must've happened lately, regardless. Other things going on... mind wandering elsewhere, ect.

 


@Historylover wrote:

Anyway, I just wanted to check in with you. I've missed you about. You cannot imagine the delight I've had in our interactions over the past couple of years, in my most difficult times. You've brought a happy smile to my face on so many occasions, and out-loud, joyful laughter from my soul on others.

 

Anyway, just sending best wishes and hope all is well with you. Cheers.😊

Thank you so much for this comment on that other thread, @Historylover !πŸ˜ƒπŸ€— (I'll reply to everything here, just for convienience.) It was really very uplifting and humbling! You describe the sort of person I always aspired to be, in my younger days, but that I never seemed to be able to achieve. Makes me feel like maybe I'm not a complete failure, after all.πŸ™‚

 


@Historylover wrote:

@chibam. I know what you mean re trudging through dark days. I've been deep in my own, and to be honest, just can't get out of them anymore, so I'm not good company. I hope you're doing alright. And I agree re not being able to know how to help, or what to say. We can't, can we? Most of the time, I leave it to those who feel they may have a better connection to the problem, otherwise I'm just saying the same thing over and over–and I can't help myself!

I can't help but feel like it's the so-called "wiki effect" having taken over the realm of mental health while we weren't watching.

 

It reminds me of times when I've needed to get some sort of clarity from the ATO, Microsoft, and a few other big, complex organizations.

 

You go in really needing to get clear directions from a knowledgeable member of the staff; except you discover that there are no longer any direct chanels of communication to the staff anymore; and what they've done is set up community forums, so that all the equally-confused peasants can chat amongst themselves, hoping to bumble their way to a solution that really only the officials know how to attain.

 

It's by far a much cheaper way of managing the disgruntled masses; but you get what you pay for.

 

Likewise, here we all are, a bunch of hopeless individuals, totally confused about how we're supposed to make life worth prolonging; and so we get shuffled in to an online forum filled with equally-confused sufferers, under the laughable pretense that maybe we'll find an answer in a room full of people who at their wits ends for lack of having any answers.

 

We're talking to each other, when really we ought to be talking to somebody who's in charge.

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