>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. 👇

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

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I live in RV 20 years and when my Dark Forest presents itself I have tried to drive away from it 😪
Your words are meaningful to me.
Thank You 😊

Each time I participate in a 30 day challenge I learn. This time was no different. Normally, I put pressure on myself to make sure I complete a challenge. This time I was traveling to care for family members who needed a helping hand. Which meant I wasn't able to post daily. However, instead of giving up I wrote when I could. Being part of the community and cheering on others through upvotes and comments was a good feeling. The big takeaway was that even if I wasn't officially "in the race" I could run alongside others and cheer them on. Best wishes to you. 

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I've been in that dark forest so know what you're talking about and there is a way out. Many people don't understand unless they've been there, some tell one to 'snap out of it!' Who would want to feel that way? To those people who enquired how I was, I used to simply say that I'm fine as there is no way they'll ever understand!
As for downvoting, I hate it unless it's spam or plagiarism, why take away rewards from someone who has written something original and make a 'judgment'.
Back to depression, writing has helped me greatly during difficult times especially!
Well done on completing #Hiveblopomo!

I think that writing is a way to free the mind of discouraging thoughts and put the imagination to fly in a positive way, and this helps to alleviate depression, at least to me it has been very useful, in my case, I suffer from anxiety, and having the mind busy creating things is a great help.

Downvotes can be demoralizing, no matter how many times you tell yourself the rewards are not yours until 7 days passes. They were never meant to be used in pissing matches but they are, so I tend to take the good with the bad and keep on going. 

That's a hard stance to embrace when you're down to start with. Sometimes you need a stubborn streak to kick in and give the downvoter the silent finger and continue on posting.