Letters to the Editor
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Gosh
Wow. As the only person actually diagnosed with BDD who actualy wrote in, I have to say that I'm impressed. ...I'm impressed with the number of good letters, and the number of letters written by people who clearly:
1) Had no point to make.
2) Or didn't know what they were talking about.
...But whom apparently had the extra free time necessary to write letters. Guys! You don't have to write in about everything! Maybe count backwards from ten, see if you know what you're talking about, then do it. Just a thought, no?
Anyway, as a person diagnosed with BDD, who actually strongly considered killing himself today, you guys make me sad. There is no limit, apparently, to our desire to...
1) Talk about subjects that we don't know anything about.
and
2) Talk about subjects that we don't know anything about.
God bless! And keep it going; don't let me stop you.
(And people who actually know something about this subject, whether you agree with me or not, I didn't mean you. At all. I meant the people who bothered to write in after:
1) reading this article
and
2) thinking about it for maybe thirty seconds.
...You know, behind every article that's just fodder for discussion. ...Ohmigod! A flood in Bangladesh! Let's discuss that in terms of the US foreign policy! ...Anyway, behind every article like that, there is an actual person, who is affected by the issue in question. In this case, that person is me.
I realized that a long time ago, when I had to flee New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and had to listen to dumb people talking about it on the news. But let me say it again: behind every news story, there is an actual person, affected by the real person in question.
I hope you figure that out eventually.
best,
Oliver Miller
www.nerve.com/videoblog