Seeing all these Feeling Low Posts makes me feel like screaming THAT'S LIFE

[RegularPoster]

I'm sorry

I don't really read these threads

I do know that depression is a real illness and requires medical help and I do not wish to denigrate those who are suffering in this way

I cannot help thinking that a lot of these posts stem from expecting more from life than there really is. Some people just seem to want to feel good all the time, and the things that are getting you down are JUST LIFE

I think a lot of you do need to pull your socks up and stop analysing things. just get on with your lives and make the best of it

God forbid you had something proper to worry about - like war, disease, famine

Don't seem to see many of the mothers from the SN board posting here nor those who I do see as having real problems to worry about.

Discuss...

Then why didnt she come back to debate?

not "civilised" or "humane"?

Seems far more civilised and humane than some of the posts directed at rp.

I dont know. Do you?

hercules - but a debate at the expense of people who are feeling down?

How do you know it was meant to be at the expense of depressed people?

I think you're probably already back aren't you shame you couldn't have posted this subject under your own name and in other subjects. I think it's completely understandble that people are upset, you have posted on the very thread where people do fell low and as such need support without feeling their problems will be belittled. That is why they post on here out of the way as such.I totally agree sometimes I see a thread(not on feeling low) where despite encouragement, help from other people etc I do think really the poster needs to stop thinking and start doing but it is at this point I stop posting. I think the fatal error RP made was posting this in the category they did.

Nicely stated MTS

Hercules and FairyFly. Good for you being the ones sticking up for RP, but they are not here......have said nothing all night and like MTS said, they blatantly posted a cruel message on a board where people are already down.

It may be against mumsnet policy to not allow personal insults, but obvoiusly they feel this thread should be left.

I didnt say depressed people - I dont think that - it was a debate about people feeling down (or low)

hercules - how can this be called a "debate". Rp made her point and that's it. A lot of people are upset. People post on here for support and what may not make one person down low can really upset someone else. This poster has trivialised people's problems and I think that is very unfair.

Eh clairbelle?

Hercules - yes some people said things they shouldnt have. But what this person said WAS inflammatory. She feels that not everyone should have the right to post as some people do not have serious enough problems, in her opinion. There is no denying that. And we could go on all night with this - you defending the person (without knowing fully what she intended), and us believing that she could have gone about this whole thread differently, if she felt she had to (without knowing what she intended).

I think saying someone should burn in acid is probably the most inhumane thing you can do.
And in my opinion again, even though it has been made clear i am not allowed one as i am not R P's best friend, she may have well posted people with depression are the scum of the earth because that is exactly what most people have read anyway

I agree that it's not a debate.
If we had to be so careful as to monitor what ever we post for fear of upsetting someone noone would ever post anything and mumsnet would be a boring place.

Pardon hercules?

If RP had said something like 'do you think that gps prescribe ad too easily? Do you think that sometimes it is more beneficial to try and be positive rather than descuss all of our problems all of the time?' then I dont think that there would have been so much nastiness

It maybe mumsnet policy to not let anyone be personally attcked, but she did not personally attck anyone

erm - my post was perfectly civilised. nowt to do with me if other peoples weren't. but then again I am only a poster who felt like bursting into tears when reading this thread, rather than a poster who deliberately and anonymously set out to wind up and upset people.

Why is it I'm being told I cant read into the original post that it wasnt intentioanlly cruel yet it's okay for others to assume this.

We dont know! Whatever happened to the benefit of the doubt and not slagging a poster who for what ever reason unknown to all of us hasnt come back.

Perhaps they havent come back because of all the nastiness about them.

I agree that you cant censor what you say and it would be a shame if we had to watch everything we say - but I think that the poster knew the response and because they worded the post like they did we have spent more time debating How we debate rather than the topic

No doubt about it. 'Seeing all these Feeling Low posts makes me feel like screaming THAT'S LIFE'

How could that not upset some people?? Definately better ways to go about it.

There are a lot of "thinks" here. We dont know!

You all think you know what the poster was thinking and it was nasty. I just happen to think it wasn't. Perhaps thats why im not depressed.