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To Teak and Lizzie Lou
My name is "Greenlydia" and I am one of the CLs from the Anxiety Forum. "Worriedman" and I have been posting for the past few days and I advised him to come here for some help with his concerns regarding HIV. I also sent him to the OCD forum for help with THAT issue. He is on a waiting list in London for therapy, which is sad when someone obviously needs help immediately. Unfortunately, not all countries have the same health care advantages that we take for granted.
While I DO understand that answering the same questions and concerns over and over and over can become very frustrating, we must understand that we are dealing with people who are very often terrified, fragile and desperate. They come to us for help, hope, reassurance and compassion.
That you treated "Worriedman" the way you did is reprehensible and totally inexscusable. To threaten him with being banned if he posts the same concerns again is NOT a MH policy.
I am extremely disappointed in both of you and will be sending copies of your posts to MH with the recommendation that you immediately offer an apology to "Worriedman" for your innapropriate and insensitive responses. I'm quite sure it is YOU who has crossed MH policy.
Please feel free to respond to me in the Anxiety Forum.
Cordially,
Greenlydia
While I DO understand that answering the same questions and concerns over and over and over can become very frustrating, we must understand that we are dealing with people who are very often terrified, fragile and desperate. They come to us for help, hope, reassurance and compassion.
That you treated "Worriedman" the way you did is reprehensible and totally inexscusable. To threaten him with being banned if he posts the same concerns again is NOT a MH policy.
I am extremely disappointed in both of you and will be sending copies of your posts to MH with the recommendation that you immediately offer an apology to "Worriedman" for your innapropriate and insensitive responses. I'm quite sure it is YOU who has crossed MH policy.
Please feel free to respond to me in the Anxiety Forum.
Cordially,
Greenlydia
The next time you think you need to call me an arse at least know what you are talking about before you run off at the mouth. You need to apologize to all of these forum members for your intrusion into this forum with your ranting.
lolol...i cannot believe that tomshine is STILL trolling this forum...geeeeeeeeeeeez
As I said.....and have already apologized for....even if I HAD read the guidelines, I would have written anyway. You needn't be redundant concerning my error, I "got it" the first time.
I don't feel what I did by coming here and confronting you was wrong. I think you would have done the same thing if one of your posters had been treated unkindly on the Anxiety Forum. At least, I hope you would.
Peace
Greenlydia
I don't feel what I did by coming here and confronting you was wrong. I think you would have done the same thing if one of your posters had been treated unkindly on the Anxiety Forum. At least, I hope you would.
Peace
Greenlydia
By the way if YOU would have done what you were suppose to do before posting in this forum you would have "READ" the guidelines that are up at the top of the page that says. New Guidelines for HIV Community - Please Read Before Posting
by Med Help
by Med Help
I'm quite sure you don't give a damn that I'm a CL, my intent was only to identify who I was, not to "throw my weight around," of which I am fully aware, I have none. Here or anywhere. That you feel I came here acting like a "twit" is your opinion and you're welcome to.
I DO apologize for not reading your guidelines, but even if I HAD, I would have written anyway. I don't understand how I have violated them, but perhaps I need to go back and read them again. If I did, I apologize for that as well.
I am also fully cognizant of the fact that I am not qualified in HIV and I did NOT come here to offer any advice in that area. I came here with an issue of how a poster had been treated in this forum. I don't believe I acted like I was some sort of "big shot" from MH. (I am NOT from MH at all) And I did NOT threaten to have anyone banned.
Even taking your guidelines into consideration, I still feel very strongly that the way "worriedman" was treated in this forum was wrong and what I said was that I thought he was owed an apology. It would be my thinking that he was as unaware of the guidelines as I was. Did you make him aware of your fourms policy?
Your last two lines prove to me that my initial characterization of you were absolutely correct.
Greenlydia
I DO apologize for not reading your guidelines, but even if I HAD, I would have written anyway. I don't understand how I have violated them, but perhaps I need to go back and read them again. If I did, I apologize for that as well.
I am also fully cognizant of the fact that I am not qualified in HIV and I did NOT come here to offer any advice in that area. I came here with an issue of how a poster had been treated in this forum. I don't believe I acted like I was some sort of "big shot" from MH. (I am NOT from MH at all) And I did NOT threaten to have anyone banned.
Even taking your guidelines into consideration, I still feel very strongly that the way "worriedman" was treated in this forum was wrong and what I said was that I thought he was owed an apology. It would be my thinking that he was as unaware of the guidelines as I was. Did you make him aware of your fourms policy?
Your last two lines prove to me that my initial characterization of you were absolutely correct.
Greenlydia
greenlydia, needs to read the guidelines of this forum, then she needs to keep her nose out of this forum.
All of Teak's recent postings seem to have been removed. Was he banned as a result of this? If so, I find that incredibly repulsive and unfair. Not to mention that it would mean a significant diminishing of this forum's talent, wisdom and ability to give good, honest, medically sound advice. Does anyone know what happened?
and furthermore...before you go putting MY name at the top of your post...how about reading my responses to him first.
move on
move on
if i was "that" kind of person...i would forward you the pm that he sent me this morning thanking me for my help...but since it was a PRIVATE message, i wont do that.
I sincerely hope that worriedman can get the help he needs for his OCD.....
If you look at the top of this forum, it was Medhelps policy to ban obessive posters with a no risk situation.
If you look at the top of this forum, it was Medhelps policy to ban obessive posters with a no risk situation.
Seems to me you came to this forum to make threats! That being said I will report you for doing soooo................
In this forum its the same nonrisk or wait for a conclusive answer thats all we can offer SORRY we do not try to hold there hand. I know he is worried I have been there but he will just have to wait.
Dont try to use your CL powers here keep that in your Anxiety forum
In this forum its the same nonrisk or wait for a conclusive answer thats all we can offer SORRY we do not try to hold there hand. I know he is worried I have been there but he will just have to wait.
Dont try to use your CL powers here keep that in your Anxiety forum
And so that means he is unwelcome here?
Many of the posters on the Anxiety Forum are convinced they have cancer or MS or brain tumors or AIDS............should we turn them away?
Where is your compassion?
Many of the posters on the Anxiety Forum are convinced they have cancer or MS or brain tumors or AIDS............should we turn them away?
Where is your compassion?
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