Hello everyone.
Time for a massive apology and humble-pie eating session from MNHQ. Well, actually, more specifically, from me.
We should have deleted troisgarcons' post several days ago when it was first reported to us.
The MNHQer on duty asked me about it and I speed-read it and missed the very last part where PND was dismissed as not being a genuine MH issue.
It was my decision to let the post stand - we don't delete opinions just for being unpleasant or ignorant or misguided. If I had read it properly, I would have agreed that it should be deleted - as we would delete any post that stated any acknowledged mental-health condition was not real.
I'm very sorry. Really bad call on my part.
Thank you to all who reported to us and to those whose eloquent responses on this thread stopped short of personal attacks. However delete-worthy a post and however balls-uppy the initial MNHQ response to it, personal attacks are still against our Talk Guidelines, and we have to delete them, too.
In a situation like this, we would normally just delete the whole thread for turning into a bit of a bunfight. But there are so many moving and inspiring posts on this thread now, we'd really rather leave it up. We hope you agree this is the best move.