I apologize for all comments or topics that I offended anyone with or ‘fueled your delusion’. I have enjoyed meeting all of you online. @turningthepage, @flameoftherhine@Reggie@Vertigo
The mods say I have been doing it too much lately. They were nice enough to pm me instead of just suspended my account.
I thought about this all night. Fair is Fair - I should be treated like any other member. I don’t understand why an approved psychiatric method for recovery and coping can not be posted here, but that is how it goes.
@SzAdmin as you are the only way we can delete accounts - go ahead and do so. There really should be a way for us to delete our own account.
Oh dear i totally understand you… I felt like I wasn’t treated fairly enough lots of time and I had plenty enough polemics with moderator/s that I can now say: its not worth it. Eventually the drama passes and you realize that this community is much more worth than couple of fights here and there.
I didn’t notice you were fueling delusions though. You are always so down to earth.
And something else… Maybe its not so bad to learn to accept critics and use it to question and correct yourself instead of being hurt and offended. That works better in real life too. But you probably need some time to figure it out…just like me…um hundreds of times before.
What was said is that you were fueling some delusions, and we talked to you about it because you also give good to the table. No drama here, no need for it also.
Take a break if you want, but no need to leave because of it.
Oh no! Please consider staying @mjgh06
No need to leave.
Maybe take a small break if you have to but don’t go.
I really like you as a person and I’m sure that a lot of other people do too.
I don’t want to see you go! I think you’re a great, positive influence on the site.
I agree that Unusual Beliefs has gotten a little out of hand - it should be a place of helping people work through disturbing and delusional thought, not a place where we encourage the thoughts and add to them. Just like in every other part of the forum, we want to help people overcome their symptoms there, not compound them.
I have a few compelling beliefs of my own that it just kills me not to talk about sometimes. As entertaining and instructive and topical as I think some people might find them, I have to recognize that a mental health board isn’t the place for that - people come here to get a handle on those thoughts, and I’ve got to respect that.
But mj, that’s such a small part of your postings here, and you are hardly alone in that kind of conversation. You got a message because you’re such a positive role model here, which gives your postings extra weight.
The absolute last thing anyone wants to see is you feeling unwelcome or thinking that you need to leave.
@mjgh06 I always enjoyed your posts…I must be missing some posts but I never thought of you as someone that should leave? just take a break dude…come back later…you may find that you like it here after all.
I took some time and talked with my family. The issue that really upset me is I honestly believe what I said to the individuals in question were factual medical advice that does work especially in med resistance patients with sz. It is the only thing working for me. I know you 110% disagree, but my family helped me so maybe I could explain it better to you
They wrote it down for me so I could copy what the doc said and from the papers she gave them. -
“The treatment of delusions and hallucinations have laid the foundation for more recent developments in comprehensive cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) interventions for schizophrenia”. The new pdoc I go to uses a form of CBT that helps desensitize sz patients from their delusions and hallucinations. Because sz are already flooded with the events, it is a faster way to recovery in many cases. It also can help alleviate both positive and negative symptoms.
Because I am med-resistant, this form of CBT is a method she is wiling to try with me. It works for me. By accepting the ‘voices’ as spirits, it allows me to be in more control and less fear of them. Just as accepting being in the delusion allows me to know it is a delusion and take back control.
My first response to everyone has always been take the meds… But I hope you understand now that when I offer my opinion to someone who is not on meds or can’t get meds, or is med-resistant that I am only stating what has been offered to me as a valid form of treatment. You can research it for yourself - my family has the literature she gave them, and they say there are plenty of articles on it.
With that said, I still don’t know if I am going to continue coming here because I feel that CBT in this form is a valid method and if it is still refused to be discussed, I just can’t see myself being part of a group that refuses to acknowledge there are different treatments that work for everyone. I think szadmin himself posted a video of this type of CBT.
@Rhubot
see my post above in response to minnii. Unless I misunderstood that is exactly what I was warned to stop doing. CBT desensitization for sz. I didn’t know what the therapy was called until I got warned not to do it and talked to my family about what the doc had told me. If it was a misunderstanding, then I would like clarification in a pm about what I was doing.
If I can post about my CBT desensitization therapy without having to keep referring to it like that, I am okay. If I can’t talk about it here, then I am not okay with it.
Am I understanding you correctly in that you want to be able to talk about CBT techniques without calling them CBT techniques? I can’t see any real reason you can’t, though I suspect that for some of the more personalized ones you use, it might avoid confusion if you mention where your approach originated.
In any case, cognitive therapies are absolutely on topic here - I owe a lot of my wellness to them and wish more people could take advantage of them.
@mjgh06. CBT techniques are regularly discussed on the forum so I’m not sure how you got the impression that this was not allowed. If you type CBT or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in the forum search box, you’ll find many threads about CBT.
I responded to your pm. But yes that is my only concern - my CBT therapy. If I can’t discuss something that is psychiatrist approved that could help others, why are we here?
