14YearsOfFlux
Bluelighter
- Joined
- Aug 8, 2016
- Messages
- 126
I have been a blue lighter for MANY years. I don’t check in as often as I should. I posted a recovery journal many years ago and consider this place a HUGE contributing factor to my recovery (still clean as a whistle after 14 years of hard hard abuse (hence my username)....
Lately, I see a LOT of very unsupportive threads with little to no moderation. Not only the weird paranoid rants, but nearly every reply is an exercise in one-upsmanship. Ex. “Oh you saw two people almost die? I’ve seen like 6 people almost die”.... “oh once a week? Try once an hour”
Da fuq is going on around here? What happened to the recovery journals and the supportive outreach? Why has this forum turned into some weird rock-bottom-off? Furthermore, why do some people take pride in being “more fucked” than the next person? I don’t doubt we’ve all seen some shit. Horrible, not societally normal shit.
I don’t really have a point. I’d just like to see more positivity and support. That’s what helped me. And I don’t see a ton of help around here right now... just venom.
Makes me sad.
Lately, I see a LOT of very unsupportive threads with little to no moderation. Not only the weird paranoid rants, but nearly every reply is an exercise in one-upsmanship. Ex. “Oh you saw two people almost die? I’ve seen like 6 people almost die”.... “oh once a week? Try once an hour”
Da fuq is going on around here? What happened to the recovery journals and the supportive outreach? Why has this forum turned into some weird rock-bottom-off? Furthermore, why do some people take pride in being “more fucked” than the next person? I don’t doubt we’ve all seen some shit. Horrible, not societally normal shit.
I don’t really have a point. I’d just like to see more positivity and support. That’s what helped me. And I don’t see a ton of help around here right now... just venom.
Makes me sad.