> On one hand (damage email) you ask for the suffering
> competition to stop
> and on the other hand (you have five more fingers) you
> encourage the
> competition and ask others to share publicly their suffering.
I'm sorry I don't see how encouraging people to feel free to talk
about their experiences if they want to is encouraging a
competition.
Indeed, the very reason I wrote the "damage" mail was to make it
clear that if someone wants to discuss something, it *doesn't*
have to be major trauma, it could be anything that they found
interesting, or that they are still stuck with, wondering about.
It is actually one of the sad things that people discount their
own experiences of suffering on the grounds that they shouldn't
have felt like that. After all, it was ONLY <...> and NOT <war,
rape, trauma>. If it had been, then perhaps I might have had a
right to feel like this but as it is, I don't.
Not useful.
SF
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