Create a Support topic to share what’s on your heart, and receive encouragement from other community members.
Create a topic
This is a place of unconditional acceptance. Write about whatever’s going on in your life. Whether it’s issues at your job or in a relationship or at home or with depression or suicide, you can open up about anything and expect to be understood and supported. If you post, you will receive encouragement in return.
Most of the times, you will receive heartfelt messages from people who are just like you – real humans with real stories and real struggles. You are not alone in the things that you are facing, and I believe you’ll find that to be true as you post.
What kind of responses?
Text Replies
The most common response you’ll get when you post on our mental health support forum is a text-based reply. This might be a couple sentences, or it might be a huge story! Some people just relate to what you’re going through. Others may have specific advice and encouragement for your exact situation. Most of our users aren’t mental health professionals, but they have all been through their own struggles and are willing to share from their experience.
Group Replies
We have groups of volunteers who meet together weekly on Discord to provide high quality replies. They talk to one another about how to best respond to your post before writing their responses so they can offer more empathy, kindness, and encouragement.
Creative Encouragement
Sometimes we’ll respond with a piece of art or something that a community member created just for you! The time spent on sending these digital gifts is a special way to send love your way, no matter what you are going through. Here’s an example:
Video Replies
Sometimes we’ll select a post and record a video response that we send as a reply. These are usually from our staff or partners. You may get a video reply with an extended discussion about your post. We’ve recorded over 600 of these videos to individuals on our Support Wall. Here’s an example:
We hope that you experience unconditional love here on the forum. If you have any issues at all, you can always “Flag” a response that makes you feel unwelcome, and our forumstaff will take care of your request.