I don't like the way you treat me and everyone else on this board...

Posted by Emily on March 29, 2002 at 14:29:38:

In Reply to: I have ideas about many things. You are no exception. posted by Bartholomew on March 29, 2002 at 14:04:08:

: : My struggle with depression and anxiety is real. You have no idea what I've been faced with in my life.

: Yes, I do.

Ok, then, Bart, tell me my own life story. What's the reason I consider jumping in front of oncoming traffic everytime I go to the mailbox in the mornings? Why can't I drive past 206th and Dodge? Why is my last name the same as my mom's? Why can't I stand my own company?

: Do you consider yourself sensitive, delicate, perceptive, and having strong powers of reflection and introspection?

Yes, I consider myself sensitive, but that's one quality about me that I don't like. I'm delicate, as in I get affected by things way too easily, and I also don't like that about myself. Just because I think those things about myself doesn't mean all of a sudden I see myself as better than anyone, or that no one else in the world can be sensitive and delicate. I also don't see those things as neccessarily positive.

: I'm not necessarily talking about PHYSICAL image.

Neither was I.

: I wasn't assuming anything. I was noting that you were painting a highly positive picture of fours, and that you consider yourself a four. What was my assumption?

You're treating me like a number, assuming that because I'm a four, I hold all of these characteristics that you loathe. For instance, you said, "The 'depression' that fours trick themselves into having does not include any of the self-loathing that more genuine depressions have." You're assuming that fours don't have "genuine depressions".

I'm not going to explain my depression to you, nor my severe bouts with anxiety disorder. It's too real, too serious, and not something I'm willing to discuss with a person who sees me as a stereotype and a number. I'm a real human-being, not some commodity you can get your kicks off of by telling me I'm wrong about everything.

Treat me with some respect.

-Emily

Follow Ups:

• You know enough to know WHY I treat people on these boards the way I do. Don't act so surprised. Bartholomew 19:21:14 03/29/02 (3)
  • Bart, Emily 21:48:09 03/29/02 (2)
    • Re: Bart, felix felix 05:28:29 04/01/02 (1)
      • Re: Bart, Emily 11:15:50 04/01/02 (0)

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