Liz Spikol Interviewed, Some Notes

Beyond Blue had an interview with Liz Spikol earlier this week, so I am lame and late linking to it. It's a good read.

In addition, I want to truly thank all my readers for making this the busiest week in the history of this site. On Wednesday, Furious Seasons had over 1,000 hits for the first time (I may have had that many a few times during the Zyprexa court fight, but I didn't have Sitemeter following my stats then), and for the last seven days the site has had about 4,700 hits. That would be small potatoes in the political blogging world (where if you say the President is dumb, 50,000 people will read your words), but in the niche mental health commentary world that's pretty damn good. What's more, there have been loads of comments this week, so many that I don't even have the time to go count them.

Thanks very much for your readership and interest in these issues.

BTW, since there are a fair number of new people around, let me point people to the comments policy on the about page. A few people have asked what my comments policy is. Pretty much anything goes, aside from harassing other commenters about their psychological condition. Other than that, I don't care if you agree with me or think I am the biggest fool on the 'Net. Say what you want. In over two years of running this site, I've only banned one commenter and that was someone who told me to go kill myself. That BS I won't tolerate no matter whom it's directed at.

So you know, there are some mental health blogs, websites and forums where it's easy to get banned for disagreeing with the admin or by fighting too hard over certain issues (SSRIs, for example), or for not having the right politics. Or, sometimes, the admin or writer will just come attack you in comments a la John McManamy. I don't do that and generally only get pissy with commenters when someone challenges my right to say X or Y about Issue A or B.

It's a free country and a free market of ideas. I'll say what I want. So should you.

Have a nice weekend.