damn_registrars's Journal: In response to squiggleslash...

I saw a message about a recent Journal Entry from him . I've followed and conversed with him before here. I'm responding in my own JE because I'm not allowed to respond to his JE itself - not sure how I earned a spot on his foes list.

His JE - and I'm taking it at face value as a literal depiction of how he feels - describes someone who could really benefit from mental health care. I know the world is dreary in a lot of ways. A lot of us are drowning in stresses and strains in ways that we didn't before. It doesn't help that our country still places a stigma on seeking out help with mental health issues, and our insurance system tends to savagely fuck over many who do.

I don't know who squiggleslash is in real space. I only know what he writes here. I only call him he because he mentions a wife and child. I have made no attempt to seek him out anywhere outside slashdot.

More importantly I wish him well. I don't know how much of his anguish is directly from this site - I presume it's not none of it as he mentions closing down his account here - but I hope it wasn't somehow at my hands. I'm known for griping about what a hopeless cesspool / echochamber this site has become, and yet I am guilty of returning time and again. That doesn't mean my choice is right for others.

Yup

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

"His JE - and I'm taking it at face value as a literal depiction of how he feels - describes someone who could really benefit from mental health care."

Well said. He seems have a lot of cognitive issues and maybe some mis-directed anger problems as well.

I'm not a psychologist, so who knows, right?

At the same time though, I'm also not a meteorologist but I can still tell when it's raining.

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[damn_registrars]

He seems have a lot of cognitive issues and maybe some mis-directed anger problems as well.

I can't say I've read a lot of his writings. Some time - almost certainly years ago - I added him to my friends list, though I don't remember why or when.

I'm not a psychologist, so who knows, right?

Neither am I. Psych 1001 was fun in undergrad but I took it no further. It probably doesn't do any good to speculate further, I'm just stating that based on what he wrote I really hope he seeks out some professional help.

I don't dispute or disagree with you or Squiggy

[smittyoneeach]

The information age has introduced so many new stresses.

While my wildly unreliable short-to-mid-term forecast echos the gloom--there are pressures that have been building for 100+ years that seem to produce what looks like a slow eruption--I remain cheerful in the longer term.

My useless prophecy is that the general populace figures out that technology has its place, but not a central one, in life. That is, an increasing offline trend will emerge as a collective understanding about how to draw a line bet

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[fustakrakich]

Technology® is nothing, well, except convenient, very much so... How people deal with it is everything. For instance, I don't answer the phone during suppertime, or lunchtime, or breakfast time for that matter... Some people are writing Tolstoy the whole time.. I worry that people soon won't be able to change a light bulb, or even know what one is. What is on display is the power of the herding instinct

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[smittyoneeach]

I was just at a Nez Perce heritage site. When the globalists finish crashing the economy, those who recall older hunter-gatherer ways are going to be carrying on smartly. The foppish white collar types in the big cities? Perhaps no so much.