Edit /u/givesomefucks has now permanently banned two people from Mental Health, a supposed "safe space" in the last 3 hours. That seems odd for a community with an average 1 post per day. And that the other now banned account, /u/betterdeadthanreddit, was banned right after I called it out as being an alt of his along with /u/dingus in the comments here. I'd imagine the comment leading to that lifetime ban doesn't match whatever the comment said, and he's trying to hide that he has a bunch of alts modding a bunch of communities and banning users on this instance for no actual reason.
Hello, I'm relatively new to Lemmy and not sure how the instance administration works.
I spent around 3 hours writing up a long post for the Mental Health community detailing my personal history of symptoms, the issues I had with diagnosis, and the understanding of the root causes of AI that led me to realize what was causing my trouble with the medication I was on as well as why symptoms that were actually caused by ADHD had been diagnosed as Major Depressive Disorder or the like more than once.
Because the post got very long, I decided to break it into sections with headers and some bullets to make it easier to read.
The post had several replies that were all normal discussion on the issue, and violated no rules of Lemmy.world or that community. One of the two mods, presumably u/givesomefucks, removed the post without warning and listed the reason as "AI rambling about serious medication and how the doctors donβt know better."
I tried to message the two mods listed and got no response from either. Since I was in the middle of multiple conversations in the replies, I created a new post questioning deleting a long post in what they describe as a safe space to share and discuss mental health issues.
While continuing conversations in that new post, I got a popup that told me I was banned from the community. The reason they put in the modlog this time was "medical misinformation."
Both of those modlog entries are false. The first is an assumption they made at a glance. They then deleted that post based only on their assumption without bothering to read the post first.
The second is a blatant lie. There is nothing at all in either post that is medical misinformation. In the first post I even took the time to explain the various symptoms that can present depending on which neurotransmitter a person has a deficiency in the availability of as well as why my medication that targeted only one of those neurotransmitters was causing me to be tired even though it was a stimulant, and how a severe deficiency of both neurotransmitters can be diagnosed as depression since those symptoms aren't commonly associated with ADHD.
All of that information is accurate and all of that information can be verified.
In the second post, the one that I was banned from the community for, I had never even given medical information in the post. It was entirely calling them out for deleting a post without bothering to even read it in what they claim to be a mental health safe space.
The first post URL is: https://lemmy.world/post/50462838
and the second post is: https://lemmy.world/post/50461425
You'll note that one of the comments is a user saying that the entire lemmy.world instance isn't a safe place for any community.
The Mental Health community averages one single post per day. It's not a lot to ask of a moderator, and something they volunteered for. This is not how to grow a new communication platform.
It has now been 2 hours since my first post was deleted and 30 minutes since I was banned from the community. I have messages both moderators twice now, and neither of them has bothered to reply.
If the moderators of the lemmy.world Mental Health community are unable to keep up with that whole post per day by actually reading it and communicating with the poster if they see an issue, and they need to rely on removing posts based on blind assumptions and then instead of correcting their mistake doubling down by banning users based on complete lies then I volunteer to take over as moderator of that community.
Of course, and you all also just happened to show up here at the same time I was calling that out and delete of course delete the post I'd just linked where any user could see there were in the end 5 accounts all made within the same few days all with the same pattern who all jumped out of nowhere to attack a user who dared question why someone had been banned like that.
Aww, you even banned this account with your alt for being a "troll" to make it look like it isn't the same person. Now I know it is.
I know you are hurting right now and you need somewhere for that hurt to go, but I am not your enemy. I am not familiar with the users you posted, nor do I have the ability to change your situation. I'm just some random person online who is a bit bored on my weekend off haha. It's somewhat marred by the fact that Lemmy keeps erroring out every time I try to do something, but alas.
To be frank with you, I'm not interested in having some long protracted debate with you about the content of your original post.
I'm sorry for the ramble (we both appear to be prone to it lol) and I know this sounds a bit out of left field, but have you heard of DBT? I don't have ADHD myself, but I struggle with the intensity of my emotions when something happens to me. I've read that a lot of people with ADHD struggle with this too. You are absolutely valid in being hurt and upset, but your own behavioral response afterwards isn't necessarily helping you out. I've been trying my best to have a more nuanced understanding of things, myself, life, etc., and to be less polarizing in "right" vs. "wrong". I don't always succeed (as no human is perfect), but I feel as though it has helped me out.
I do wish I had another mental health community to direct you towards that would welcome you, but unfortunately I don't at the moment.
I can only hope you do something fun/nice for yourself today to try to make what happened weigh less on your mind! Wishing all the best!
Of course, when I call out your messages and ask you to specify what assertion you were saying your could see as being medical misinformation you are unable to actually do that and so you deflect to acting as though you're worried that I had issues controlling my own emotions.
Instead of backing up your own statements and words, you call into question the personal emotional state of the other person. There's a term for that.
This is a support thread. I was giving some of my thoughts on it. It didn't seem to be a space where a back and forth debate made sense.
I posted the comment you replied to when you started attacking me and started accusing me of things that I did not do. I did not do it before you attacked me.
Please understand that you are speaking to another human when you are doing this. I am a living, breathing being with my own thoughts and feelings. And you are being hurtful.
Being hurtful is not only unfair to me, but you are hurting yourself in the process. I found a lot of help discovering DBT, and I just rambles on about it as something that felt relevant to the scenario.
Note that you walked into this thread and accused me of what could be seen as a rather serious wrongdoing. You made a long post and ended in saying that you would understand someone seeing my assertion as being that. Medical misinformation.
When I replied rebutting your reply and questioning for you to point to a specific assertion that I made that you are claiming would be reasonably considered medical misinformation, you instead deflect to questioning my emotional stability and control.
After that was called out you doubled down on that and now also try to assert that I am the bad monster causing you emotional harm in this situation.
It seems likely that you are correct that you do have issues controlling your emotions, however that's not an issue I've ever had. I thank you for your deep and genuine concern.
However the only words I'm interested in seeing from you are words backing up your own statement. Specifically, what is the assertion you claim that I made which could be reasonably considered medical misinformation?
nobody here can help you. you need a professional. stop pushing the responsibility for your own care onto other people.
You don't seem to be referring to the post here, and don't seem to be replying to the content of the reply you replied to.
This is the Support community. "Nobody here can help you" seems a strange response. Looking for support with Lemmy.world issues is what this community exists for.
Can you show where I pushed the responsibility for my own care on to other people?
I did the opposite of that. I made a long, detailed post explaining the difficulties I had getting an accurate diagnosis and effective medication, the understanding that led me finally doing that, the interaction of other differences between human frames of reference that led to professional confusion, and even a surface level seminar on the neurotransmitters behind the varying symptoms and how the medication I was on and the one that I switched to effect those neurotransmitters.
Nothing in any post I've made was looking for mental health help. It was providing information to help others who may share my symptoms and struggles in getting help for themselves.