Posted by yxibow on June 24, 2006, at 15:45:22
In reply to Re: please be respectful and sensitive, posted by bassman on June 24, 2006, at 13:31:14
> I could be 100% wrong, yxibow, but I don't think Dr. Bob was (really) referring either to your post or even to Ms. Ashton's site. My guess is that he was really referring to another post about Benzo Island. And on the main page of Benzo Island, I translate what they say as, "we aren't interested in anyone's opinion that is different than ours, namely, that benzos are evil. We also are equally uninterested in any differing points of view on a way to withdraw-we all think the switch to Valium (Ashton method) the only way. In the same vein, we don't want you to tell us that any adjuctive drugs (SSRI's, etc.) work, either. If you can't abide by these rules, get off our site". Fair enough-they don't want our input, but at the same time, courtesy demands we not go to their site and make fun of them, IMO. And I think that is what Dr. Bob was talking about-not the "benzo hater"-phrase. But then, it wouldn't be the first time I was 100% wrong. :>}
I dunno.. I think it was "notorious benzo hater." I suppose if I "bent over backwards" (I'm not trying to be flippant) I could have phrased it differently in some other fashion, but the whole site and all struck me as pseudoscience.Okay, that's a personal view and therefore I know some people do ascribe to Ashton and to the independent person who seems to manage the benzo.org.uk site, which also has Christian symbolry (the fish in the middle of the page) (and I have no problem with religion, but it doesn't really belong on a site that is supposed to be disposing scientific information.)
But I'll get slapped for that too -- I know that some people find comfort being consoled in hospitals by the religion of their choice so that is fine, who knows, it may contribute to their success in treatment as any sort of consolation whether religious or psychiatric.
In the same manner, some people find it offensive to have a religious symbol not of their choice in their hospital bed room.
But then we go down the slippery slope of religion, evolution, things that cant be proven by science, things that don't belong in evidence based psychiatry, etc.. so I'll stop there and leave this thread without treading on others.
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