Political Topics in the Forum - Your Thoughts?

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One of the toughest struggles for people with schizophrenia is staying compliant with their treatment. I think the desire to get off meds is pretty much universal, but unfortunately, in most cases, it’s disastrous.

People can lose jobs, marriages, homes, families, even their lives, in their attempts to go med free. And for those who are able to go back on meds, often they need higher doses or stronger meds (with more difficult side effects) to get back where they were before the relapse, if they can get there at all.

It’s why we have to be very careful about what we post and where we source it from, because no one wants to do that kind of damage to someone else’s life.

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I like politics(self confessed lefty here) but am not sure about allowing such discussions here. The trouble though is that lots of social issues worth discussing have a political element to them.
I do think it would require increased moderating if political threads were allowed. The question is would that be foisting the moderating team with too much work?

To cut things short I’m sitting on the fence on this one.

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I wouldn’t go into a political category because it is not a topic I like to discuss. But others should have the right to discuss it if they want to. just my penny’s worth.

I would like to see an Psychotherapy or Self-Treatment Category to discuss treatments outside of the medicine realm. Treatments like CPT, TMS, EMDR so far have not been allowed to be discussed here by admins. These all all treatments that may help some people and we should be able to discuss the experiences anyone has had with the,… I agree with meds, but there are treatment therapies that work as well in conjunction with or at times when not able to be on meds. I think this is one of the only forums that are against alternative therapies in members posting, but szadmin and others can post news related to them. What gives?

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I think we are going to be saved in spite of our beliefs, not because of them.

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I’ve learned to just keep it to myself…I’m cool with that. people are going to post about it anyways, but it always blows up into a fight and who needs that? I voted “no”.

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None of those things are against forum rules. We have relatively frequent discussion of them.

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This is a significant issue we have to consider.

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I voted nah…it just causes strife amongst users…plus i for see bans and locked topics…I see this as a negative influence on our holy ground of understanding and friends…

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I mentioned you and it in my goodbye thread.

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Any time you think you can do better than this place, go here and start a community of your own:

Won’t cost you a penny.

The discussions get locked down when the proponents of the alt therapies start hectoring those who are med-compliant to be less so.

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We can test this easily enough… Let’s have one official election thread as a test case and watch head explosions.

This will also be fun for me since I’m not moderating right now. :grin:

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I chose no. The server would be down because political topics. People will be enemy even we have sz.

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This is a valid point. Political discussions could get this site blacklisted in countries where the government controls what the population can read.

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Yeah, good point, pixel . Like my country.
It seems we can only talk about American politics. :grin:
So we shouldn’t have political posts.

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I thought @moonlee meant that the popularity of the political threads would cause so much posting that the server would go into overload and crash. :grin:

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Yeah, you are right, @Moonbeam. That’s my meaning.
But @shutterbug expressed a more valuable and serious point about political posts.

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I voted no, because I don’t want to see people here in black and white. You see?

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I think there should be a political and especially a religious section if you don’t like it don’t go there. These are important parts of our lives.

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No way in hell I’ll volunteer to moderate that. It’ll be a crap show.

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i cant vote bc its like a double edged sword bc it can be both good and bad so i am split, i will reply to political threads sometimes but i dont want any devisions between people, however maybe if people respect other peoples decisions then we can get along ok.