From embedded tweet:
Talking to a douchenozzle might well be enough to send me completely over the edge.
I’ll stay depressed, thanks.
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[chuckles]
That’s not a Dick pic.
[Pulls out Dick pic]
Now that’s a Dick Pic.
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he started the conversation by saying, “Hey, check this out!”
What would be really good is if you could make it pop out by holding your nose and blowing.
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I’m pretty sure a therapist owes time to their patient. Which, as it happens, is what a depressed person should depend on, at least in a society with proper health care.
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I just hand them my card:
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Hopeful! There’s to many people on this planet…
Even then, there are boundaries. Unless it’s an emergency, a therapist or other professional has every right to establish and enforce personal boundaries between their personal life and their professional life. (And, if a therapist doesn’t, they very quickly end up getting used by a minority of their patients as a crutch and externalized decision maker).
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##Cyclists with iPods hear the same as motorists listening to nothing
The magazine concludes that “a bike rider with ear-bud earphones playing music at a reasonable volume hears much more outside noise than a car driver, even when that driver has no music playing.”
Furthermore, “a bike rider with in-ear earphones playing music at a reasonable volume hears about the same outside noise as a car driver with no music playing, but more than a car driver playing music.”
Contrary to the mainstream media myth that cyclists (and pedestrians) who listen to music on the go are “iPod wearing zombies”, Ride On finds that “ear-bud earphones set at a reasonable volume still allow riders to clearly here the warning sounds of other riders.”
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People need instructions for this?!
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Yeah, I simplified. I was just underlining how misguided the quoted tweet was.
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Arbitrary pedantry; oh, joy.
I suppose I should’ve included a qualifier excluding professional relationships, or any contractual obligations, but considering the actual subject at hand, I thought it would have been obvious.
Silly me.
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I’m sorry if that sounded so, I was trying to be flippant. What I meant is that it’s not up to random strangers to provide a depressed person an audience, so the tweet was quite misguided at best.
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Less “misguided” and more “simplistic” or perhaps “poorly defined”. The word “owe” has multiple meanings, all around an obligation to render goods or services to another person. In one context, “owe” could be “in exchange for something received”, while in another, it might mean that the person has a moral obligation to render goods or services to someone else.
So I believe that @Melizmatic is saying that, in the context of this thread, that no one has a moral obligation to devote their time or attention to someone else, especially outside of the context of a preexisting relationship.
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No harm, no foul.
I concur, though ‘misguided’ isn’t the descriptive word I’d personally choose.
Clingy, assumptive, audacious, and excessively needy, though?
You bet.
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Yes, and don’t think you can get by on directions for how to approach a woman who is covering a statue in cheese slices, either. Completely different scenario.
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Yes, but my therapist agreed to me taking up her time and I have agreed to conversing with her about my life. She also gets to ask me questions and get details to which I much prefer to control access. In either side of this equation, neither of us would likely agree to this exchange with a random stranger on the street, especially when we’re clearly indicating that we do not wish to engage with anyone at the time. (E.g., I’m reading my book or have on headphones.)
Edit to add:
Oh, I’ll absolutely agree with this! Of course as someone who does have depression issues, when it gets me, I often don’t want to leave the house, let alone talk to a random stranger!
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Is it okay to ask her for a smoke?
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Setting fire to a building just to talk to a woman with headphones on seems a bit overkill. But hey, at least you get some free headphones.
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