Atheism and Hope

[Edwardo Piet]

    Regarding Evie and the accusation of an ad hominem. I did perceive, not that it matters, that your comment was rather dismissive in the sense that you were alluding I was holding my position because of my depression. I'll grant you did not outright state that and I very well might have blurred in the lines. I don't think mental illness is an insult and I didn't perceive it that way. I also don't think being accused of a logical fallacy is an insult as they are prone to happen.
    

Well I was aware that it may have come across as dismissive, and for what it's worth, I'm sorry. The only reason I didn't hold back from being somewhat dismissive is because I was relating to my own experience of depression and looking back now I really do think that pretty much my entire position was heavily influenced by my depressive state. I don't mean to come across as dismissive I just wanted to make it clear that you shouldn't take your thoughts too seriously when you're depressed because that gives them additional power to hurt your further. I knew that I risked coming across as dismissive by saying that but it's a piece of advice that I hope could help you, speaking as someone who has been suicidal in the past previously.

I am only aiming to help you through compassion here ultimately. I mean, if I could go back in time and convince my depressive self to distrust my depressive and suicidal thoughts, I would. However bad things were they were never bad as I believed they were and that distortion is all part and parcel of the depression, it in no way detracts from it being a real mental illness.

Yeah I didn't say it outright, I think you took it a bit far by suggesting I was being fallacious because I wasn't. And that didn't offend me, what offended me was you not mentioning my name and then misrepresenting me as being fallacious. It's the not mentioning me and misrepresenting part that bothered me, not the fallacy part.

I am glad you don't think mental illness is an insult.