Originally Posted by
Celtic Heart
Bwuhh?
The RYL you are on is the third version of it. The first one was located on a site with lots of forums and called ezboards. The Title of that RYL was "Ruin Your Life" and not "Recover Your Life". The name was changed when the second version of RYL was created independent of ezboards - and with a new formalised, therapeutic perspective. "Ruin" was more exploratory and had a lot of "give" (there was even a collection of SI photos on site - scared more than a few people into getting more serious lol). It had a dimension of self-investigation and discovery. "Recover" version 2.0 was more structured. That's when more forums with more labels came into being, and people were segregated into various niches. RYL 3.0 (this forum) escalated that trend. Ruin had problems and had to change but I think it was more effective in ways before the bubble wrap stuff got layered on over the time.