have a nice holiday Philip.

Have a good holiday, Philip.

I was a regular reader of Furious Seasons, including the comments. I still check in occasionally because of Philip's up-to-date information, his balanced view (for the most part) and for his critical thinking/intelligence. But I rarely read comments anymore because of the stridency, self-righteousness and 'cliquey-ness' of many regulars. I have no problem with agreeing to disagree but the morally superior and sometimes, hateful tone of many of the comments is a total turn off. I concur with a previous reader who said "read what you need" and ignore the rest. Quite frankly, I feel sorry for some of regulars and would like to politely say--- "get a life---please." Philip, thank you for your continued efforts but some of the vitrole on your blog has perhaps reduced readership and donations?? You have the numbers so I could be wrong. Good luck!

I believe you should continue to try to leave the comments section unmoderated. Ive never felt the comments left here make me doubt the integrity of your reporting, only give another point of view on the subject. Other comments that seem to be overly bilesome in their analysis of your writing are often thin on facts, void of an unbiased perspective of objectivity, and mainly serve to give more credibility to your work. As for comments harming those who's life's have been touched by mental illness, as a former mental patient myself i find it extremely belittling for others to question whether or not i should be able to expose myself to viewpoints which some consider to have a negative influence on my illness. If there had been more sites like this, with the information available to dismiss many of the arguments posted in the comments section, then i may have been able to escape the numbing effects of medication and addressed the issues in my past without the harmful chemical intervention which the psychiatric profession currently promotes.

Happy Holiday Philip.

Please,
I hope we all can respect Philip Dawdy's work.
Once here never forget that you're not at home. We are at Furious Seasons and this place is very important to each of us.
If I said anything that did hurt anybody I'm sorry. It was not my intention.
I'm not commenting lately because I'm too sad with some personal problems.
So I'm trying to take a break on mental health issues because it makes me feel very, very sad and... angry till a degree that sometimes my heart keeps pounding.
We have many data to make a change but they refuse to see.
Our experiences are taken as anecdotal.
We are seen, by physicians and researchers, as Loch Ness Monster something totally mythical and impossible to be approached scientifically.
This is sad!
I don't think there's time or space to fight on details when the whole picture is so well designed by people like Philip Dawdy and many others.
If things keep on this way... I don't know.

Happy Holiday Philip. Hope it's relaxing.

I have a totally unrelated complaint about the comment section. The margin is so far left-justified that the very first letter of the first word is pretty much lopped off. I run FF3 on OSX. Does anyone else have this problem with their browser/OS?

Philip Dawdy responds: thanks for bringing this to my attention. i use the same ff3/osx combo and you're right it is too left justified. let me see if i can figure out how to tweak this.

Hi Nancy,

I was thinking about you the other day, glad to see you.

PS--Nancy, personally your comments always effected me in a positive way, and I learned a great deal from you, so much, that I haven't forgotten you. Thanks.

Re: the comment section moderation

I think you should do what you want that makes you glad for the time you spent on your work here at the end of the day, Philip.

Perspective about how when someone Googles key words and the drug company sites don't come up first, your site does....getting the truth out there and keeping it out there and doing a job in uncharted journalist territory (this mental health blog)is goal.

Keep your eye on pharma, and off the comment stats.

Yes, I have this problem too. The margin is so far left-justified that the very first letter of the first word is pretty much lopped off. I run FF3 on OSX. Does

Hi also have OSX but FF2. Same glitch on the earlier version as well.

Nice to know there are other Mac users out there.

I'm a Mac user too, but a new one...I have no idea what I run...

Long time PC user here trying to get used to this Mac.

I have no problems with the margins however...

I do use firefox...is it a Safari thing?