Brave new blog

University of Oregon students have returned to Eugene. They are having some sort of bacchanalia in the park behind my house. I'm sitting here wondering, how should a psychiatrist blog? Google doesn't seem to know. None of the search results are helpful. I'm trying to learn from colleagues' blogs. They comment on cases, and explain treatments, but they never give details or specific advice about treatments. They are completely confidential, with no inkling of patients' private information. (I haven't put my own name on my site, to add another layer of confidentialty, but some colleagues are braver.)
I'm paging through my reference books, with chapters like "Psychiatrists' Relationships With the General Public." Yikes - this one says that" the American Psychiatric Association once conducted a nationwide poll of its members to evaluate the mental health of a presidential candidate." It doesn't say which one. My own posts have tended toward urging people to restrain themselves from hurling diagnoses at candidates. That's almost my theme.
Anyway, there are comments about "being prepared for the public's reaction to psychiatry," - their fears, ambivalence, distrust, disbelief, stereotyping, and scorn. "Try not to be defensive," counsels the book in my lap.
There's a section about talking to reporters, and I'm wondering if that advice will help me. Blogging isn't like talking to the media; it's talking to anyone who wants to listen, every day, and dealing with some of the comments. But there are constraints on what I can say. "Keep the discussion general," it says. "Make it clear when you are just speaking for yourself, and when you are speaking generally for your profession." Have I been doing that? Excuse me while I scroll down for a bit, and check things out....