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Originally Posted by Lady Jewel

Instead of anyone asking questions evertyone lets their imaginations run wild and start making assumtions and uninformed statemtent. The chat room willbe open to ALL PTSD surviviors that need support. If u want to join, you PM and and you get the password. Simple as that. But everyone felt the need to put their 02. cents in when they really had NO clue how the group was going to be run. It is password protected because people dont want someone who has just wanted to go and have the regular chat I.E The Planet chatroom, to come into the PTSD chatroom and hear their private stuff. Sooo ANYONE that wants to discuss PTSD can get the password. It was ALL put in place so survivors could have confidentitality if THEY needed it. The open forum is awesome for people that are comfortable putting their stuff out in an open forum, some of us are not evolved in our PTSD journey and dont want it in an open forum. There is NOTHING opressive or elitist about than when its open to all members. And as far as breaching this forum thread, its already been discussed and there was NO advertising involved. Someone asked a question and it was answered and then it go bigger. Lets get back to aopcs original thread here and when the kinks have been worked out, an announcement in ANOTHER thread will be made. enough is enough. Do we have to dissect and pick apart every single things thats made public? And no the facilitators arent PHDs. They are people that have been thru PTSD themselves and want to help others. They are just there to make sure we dont sit there and not know what to say to each other. Just to help the convo along.

With all due respect, Jewel, you have no right to speak to me about what is "oppressive" or not.

If I feel it is oppressive, it is oppressive. Just because YOU do not feel it is oppressive, does not mean you are allowed to take away my truth.

To be perfectly blunt, I do not think the ~*average*~ chatter would be so rude as to go into a support chat room just to see what was going on out of boredom. The whole ~*password protection*~ thing is elitist, in my eyes, because--maybe? Maybe I'm not comfortable PMing you and telling you I want to go. Maybe I just want to go. Maybe I don't want to need your ~*permission*~ to have the password to go in.

And, I'm sorry if you don't like that we are discussing this in here--but it was brought forth, so I am damn well going to talk about it until I am done. This is a thread for PTSD survivors to talk in a safe zone--so I'm talking. If you don't like it, lump it.