RE: What Just Happened?

I don't think the whitepaper authors truly understand the crabs in a bucket analogy. It is by no means a positive.

Agreed. Surely there is another way to discourage "bad behaviour" while still allowing for true freedom of speech/room to disagree?

I would rather say something and be part of improving things than run away. However, I just cannot say nothing.

I'm glad you are. I still don't understand enough of the structure and workings of Hive to really understand what's happening or why, but I do know enough to know that there are things happening here that also make me question the longevity of particular behaviours.

To me, it's not all about money. It's about trust. It's about building relationships. And that means not living in fear that suddenly, you will lose your income because there is a rivalry between someone who supports your work and someone else.

This.

I don't know why I have relegated it to being sort of "lesser" writing for a while.

Far out. Thanks, mirror; I've been doing this too. But your fiction is my prose. It's like I've made a real post where I teach something valuable more, um, valuable... no, maybe, justifiable (?) than simply expressing what wants to pour out of my soul. (The latter is what the ZapFic prompts and other writing prompts tend to do for me).

Pact? Let's do less of the forced ("I should write a post to teach people about this thing I know about") and more of the this-thing-wants-to-flow-out-of-me-right-now posts this month?

If you want in, I'd love your company on this (if it feels right to you). Otherwise, I shall attempt to do it alone anyway because it looks/feels/sounds better than the pushing and the shoulds I did to get through HiveBloPoMo. (As instructive as it was for me).

It is hard to look on the bright side when you are extremely depressed.

If professionals who study for six years of post secondary education don't get it, it is not something easily understood.

Ah, yes. I spent so little time in my life in the offices of counsellors, therapists, psychologists or the like because I've never had a debilitating mental health condition and I've still seen enough behaviour from this traditionally trained breed of people to want to continue to stay out of their offices even when I could do with the support sometimes. Every time someone is willing to share honestly about their experience of life with a challenging/harrowing/awful/insert appropriate word here mental health condition, Harlow, it helps me to better understand. It helps me in my personal and professional interactions with other humans - who I am seeing incidentally or specifically because they want my help - to get a sense of what it must be like, to get an idea of what might help, to imagine what this person might need in this situation. So while I may never understand through lived experience (I pray not) I believe that all of us in helping roles can get better and empathising with what another person is going through.

[Realises this is turning into one of those epic essay replies again... considers wrapping up soon.]

Meet people where they are. To me, that is the most important part of psychological care.

YES!!! Thank you for saying so, and thanks for the reminder. Let's make that bigger in case the people at the back missed the message. 👇