Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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There are lines. Please stop crossing them.

When I posted about depression, I said that I was giving myself comment amnesty; I said that I might not (probably would not) read the comments.

Since then, people have contacted me via email (when they had it), via my old email (which I rarely check), via my contact form, via Facebook, and via my Tumblr, to give me their phone numbers, to tell me not to hurt myself (which I did not threaten to do), to provide crisis hotlines, to make suggestions about medication (which I did not solicit), and in one case, to threaten to report me to the police as a suicide risk if I did not update my blog immediately to show that I was still alive.

Please. Stop. "Comment amnesty" did not mean "work harder to make sure that your words, your well wishes, your specific need to engage with my depression will be heard." I try to keep open dialogs on this blog, and I usually appreciate communication, but right now, this contact is intrusive, and upsetting, and seems to prioritize the needs of the contacting person above mine. Please. Stop.

This is why I do not talk when I am sad.
Tags: depression, shameless plea
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I went through the comments on the initial depression post just to see how people were reacting, and everything seemed to be hunky-dory here, but apparently people were bringing the suck elsewhere.

*sighs* I'll rally the redbacks; they object less to being squeezed through the series of tubes that is the Internet than the funnelwebs do. Although the police report one deserves an angry funnelweb.

If it helps, I bought Indexing two days ago (it wasn't working in Australia before, I don't know), and have been enjoying every page of it. I'm trying to make this one last, so one ep a day, but it's haaaard.
Ironically, I think it's because I cried comment amnesty. They knew they had to work to reach me.