well thanks for volunteering me Capt.!
...i would rather leave those type things where they usually end up, because frankly sometimes i don't want to deal with the interminable long-winded, often not credible, jerry-springer-like stories from people who come here with their very first post and spill their guts all over the forums...some of those letters are real and frankly some aren't. some really want some good advice, some just want some cheese with their whine.....i am not at all unkind, but recently i really ran out of patience with a proponent of self-cutting who absolutely REFUSED to accept any good advice, instead wanted to babble about her body image and boyfriend who looked at other girls. when i tried to discuss the real problem she said i was a 'bully'. then there was another one with about 5 men in her life, one in and out of jail all the time, has 'cancer' but is only concerned with her sex life, not her children, and told the most contradictory convoluted improbable story i have seen anywhere yet. (and remember, i listen to this crap in the real world all the time, and know BS when i hear it, i am finely tuned to it.) if "regular" people here, that we feel we know, have a real problem, everyone would jump in to help. i among them. but the attention-seeking nut case who registers and then hangs out all their dirty laundry leaves many of us shaking our heads. and frankly it is obvious some of these stories are pure fiction, and poor fiction at that. some of them needed psychiatric help, more than we can provide. i am going to ignore the next phoney one i see, wish them well and not feed their little game.