BubbaPat:
So.. I come here when I'm feeling blue... which has been a LOT lately. I tell myself, people are on here that are just like me and need support. Yet...when I look at a Post's stats... I see TONS AND TONS of views and a few to NO responses.
I realize I'm not alway happy and I wish I didn't exist.. BUT shouldn't we all try just a little?? i mean a simple message of HANG IN THERE but be better than nothing.
Every time I see a person's post get over a 1000 looks and 0 replies... I wonder... What are WE doing here? Shouldn't we be supportive and not just a voyeur? We are all here together, right?
Some days just a person's kind words can help. It may not cure but feels better when we know we are not alone.
Bubba hugs y'all.
Jim Allen:
Hiya,
There are many aspects to why this happens, mental health itself has a stigma attached to it, but on a forum level, some people can't comment and just read, others only visit when they need support, not to offer it and that is fine. I know mental health aspects also get mixed in and discussed in treatment threads etc where emotional support is offered.
Anyhow, agree with you that threads should not go unanswered and sometimes a simple, hang in there, or message that we're here for people can mean a lot.
Thanks for raising the topic.
Jim.
Bucklandbury:
--- Quote from: BubbaPat on October 26, 2021, 04:34:37 am ---Every time I see a person's post get over a 1000 looks and 0 replies... I wonder... What are WE doing here? Shouldn't we be supportive and not just a voyeur? We are all here together, right?
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Hey, Bubba. I hear you. I am here, but I am new so I hang back a little bit.
floridartist:
The good post topic has long gone to the past, I suppose its been 4 years from the post topic, hiv with the mental health and stigma? Maybe I'm over the years for the support group, there is no one left to turn to, my people are gone, seems it's for me and my cat to work things out in the maze, is there a virtual online mental health HIV support group? Being everything is far away for me, the world has become crowded and noisy, as time gone to the past many have passed on , I'm still here, without a diagnosis from a " doctor" Ill except i am solated, now im an introvert with anxiety, that's because I don't like noise and the hurry of the world, I hope to find a virtual online support group with my people, otherwise, it's just me and my cat left to find a way and coping skills on our own, I'll admit, over time, slowly, one by one, I have gone away, I have left and set myself in a world behind a locked gate to be a Stewart of a forest , it's a beautiful forested jail by myself, I wonder how long this can go on, alone, Isolated, nontrusting of others, iv become adapted to it, its startingvtobwear on me though, a virtual support might help open up the thick chain of the locked gate. That's where I'm at, you can move the post/topic, I don't mind, hiv, may 6th 1986