On the other hand, attempting to persuade someone with a clear problem to try to extricate himself from a mental and emotional quagmire of unimaginably disproportionate magnitude, before he wakes up one day to realise that he has wasted the best years of his life bitterly typing rhetoric about his virtual civil liberties, when he could have been enriching himself with other discourse if not experience, strikes me (for a limited time) as being worth a shot.

Well yes this might have been worth a shot - if indeed that is what it was - but if it was you have been seen to have had that shot.

It was not what I asked for but I am grateful for your public show of noble intentions never the less. But now I would be grateful if you would do as I did ask and either discuss the issue which IS the subject of this thread or ignore it. Thank you.

Any more generous and helpful attempts to save me from my self can be made via PM (where all of the posters to our forum will not run any risk of being inflicted with them).

Or if you are really so concerned about my welfare - you could always ask for the special restrictions imposed on my posting to be removed.