And fwiw, I disagree with saying “This isn’t professional medical advice, it’s just my experience and amateur knowledge.” Perpetuating the illusion that mental health professionals usually know what they’re doing can be harmfwl, especially in this crowd, because most people here can do better by trusting their own cursory research.
I think people thought it was bad faith or deliberately provocative or something. Or people aren’t used to separating between “disagreement” and “I want to discourage this behaviour”. Or maybe they downvoted it because I stated something potentially harmfwl without justifying it, and they were worried that people would defer to me. I think I shouldn’t have posted the comment without more explanation, because it predictably would be misunderstood, wouldn’t help push communication norms further towards what I want, and made the forum feel less nice for people.
Something like, they misinterpret my comment as if written from a culture full of narcissistic/misanthropic/bitter people, and it makes them feel marginally more like the forum is partially a home for those kinds of people. I did use very strong/rude language, which I now regret. Mental health professionals are good folk, and I should’ve been kinder in my critique.
And fwiw, I disagree with saying “This isn’t professional medical advice, it’s just my experience and amateur knowledge.” Perpetuating the illusion that mental health professionals usually know what they’re doing can be harmfwl, especially in this crowd, because most people here can do better by trusting their own cursory research.
Not sure why people were using the main downvote button on this one, and not just the disagree downvote.
I think people thought it was bad faith or deliberately provocative or something. Or people aren’t used to separating between “disagreement” and “I want to discourage this behaviour”. Or maybe they downvoted it because I stated something potentially harmfwl without justifying it, and they were worried that people would defer to me. I think I shouldn’t have posted the comment without more explanation, because it predictably would be misunderstood, wouldn’t help push communication norms further towards what I want, and made the forum feel less nice for people.
No I mean the one I replied to, your sub-comment
Why would your comment have made the forum feel less nice for people? Sincerely curious.
Something like, they misinterpret my comment as if written from a culture full of narcissistic/misanthropic/bitter people, and it makes them feel marginally more like the forum is partially a home for those kinds of people. I did use very strong/rude language, which I now regret. Mental health professionals are good folk, and I should’ve been kinder in my critique.