If anyone gets under anyone's skin, I highly recommend using the "ignore" feature. Anyone you ignore will have all their posts and quoted posts blocked in the future. And, if curiosity killed the cat, you can then unblock the poster on a seemingly case by case basis.
It sure doesn't seem worth the aggravation to have any poster drive someone up the wall to then have a "calling out" that ensues. I'm unclear who exactly this is serving, nor do I comprehend what this will resolve moving forward.
I'll make a comment concerning mental illness, since I read at least one post challenging how BG is behaving relative to the diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Just because one's behavior exceeds another's understanding of "how a mental illness should run" doesn't mean this isn't how any given person's mental illness is expressing itself. If one is knowledgeable with the DSM, this is only a guide for traits assigned to any given psychiatric label. Nothing is black or white in the field of psychiatry.
Psychiatry is an extremely complex art forum. Unless one is formally trained in the field, I would recommend against publicly challenging anyone's behavior vs their formal diagnosis. But, then, if one is in fact formally trained in psychiatry, then one knows better than to challenge the diagnosis of anyone who isn't a patient. This is a major taboo within the field.
Indeed psychiatry is complex as are people and personality disorders, so while you present an argument from one side - one should not judge another person in case you're wrong and they are a great person, in equal measure you also should not approve of someone for the same reasons.
Otherwise you may give someone the thumbs up what a good guy, when in fact they are a manipulative deceiver, and you thereby lead the innocent chickens into the fox's den.
I believe in removing emotion from decisions and conclusions, and arriving at the decision from a "mr Spock" analysis of the facts alone. Words mean nothing, actions mean everything.
So when someone repeatedly says things that are emotionally provocative and hurtful, then always changes their mind, and then claims they are the victim of their own actions, while attacking other people for not agreeing, and leaning on them emotionally to "simply send a few emails to find me a job through their partner - or else I'll....", etc, then that is devious and manipulative, and it's clear they are not "in a bad place and hurting", they are trying to manipulate other people who are "in a bad place and hurting" into feeling even worse, so they will do X, Y, or Z for the manipulative one to avoid feeling even more shame or guilt.
1) Cry and try to make other people feel sympathy for you;
2) If that doesn't work get angry and attack them;
3) If that doesn't work ridicule them;
4) If that doesn't work go back to 1 and ladle it on thicker;
These are the methods used by manipulators, and I invite you to look back through previous posts to see whether he has been doing that.
