[kafkaesq]

For many people, talk therapy is simply not effective or possible.

I don't dispute this; not only that, I was basically acknowledging this fact in what I originally said. The crux of the issue would seem to lie with how you quantify "many."

If you think that SSRIs don't help people ...

That is quite definitely not what I said.

...then you simply don't understand what a true and chemical despair feels like.

Inasmuch as others have criticized me for "second-guessing" the original commenter's decision about how to treat his illness, without knowing medical history: you also have no knowledge, whatsoever, of mine. So I'm not sure what value there is in the assertion you're making.

[KirinDave]

Sorry, but I'm not buying it. You started this by asserting your experience and knowledge gove you a platform to talk down to someone else. Someone who very likely has a difficult story backing them.

You made this a topic of discussion. Now you're upset that people are judging you via what looks like an ableist agenda.

Charitably, lets assume this is all a big misunderstanding. Either you actively are avoiding expressing any empathy or you're not good at empathy.

Whichever it may be, it doesn't matter. You're implicitly picking a fight with this writer and every reader over the efficacy of chemical interventions, and doing it in a crude, inappropriate, backhanded fashion.

[kafkaesq]

Whichever it may be, it doesn't matter.

Agreed. I'd appreciate it, though, if in the future you'd kindly not attribute specific statements to me that I quite simply didn't make.

[KirinDave]

Your intent is not magic. If your communications are "misinterpreted" then it's your fault for not being specific enough.

Taking me to task for my interpretation (which attributed no SPECIFIC statement but rather an interpretation of your words) is a classic example of trying to use an asymmetric appeal to "civility" as a blind for your mistakes.

So no. If I see you spout stuff I consider to be ableist, and I feel like it, I'm going to hit reply and call your statements ableist and explain why.

That is the nature of this forum, and I'm one of the very few people who actually tries to do these things; so you're not exactly being overwhelmed with recriminations of that sort.