At my age, there is only volunteer stuff....my depression, anxiety, & then trauma & PTSD hit me late in life though the bad marriage that contributed to it started early on, it didn't hit me until after I lost my engineering career.....so at the age of 62, you just sort of touch peoples lives that touch yours whether online or IRL.

However I'm more likely to focus on helping people be aware of the abuse that can happen at the hands of home care people who prey on the elderly & the people who have illnesses like cancer....that was where I encountered the trauma I went through trying to protect my mother from this kind of thing & it didn't happen because she was rich though I'm sure the home care person had her eye on my mother's house along with catching her stealing my mom's ID. Never thought as a successful graduate with a BS that took me into computer engineering that I would ever end up being disabled & dealing with anxiety, major depression, suicide attempts, anorexia, trauma & PTSD all after the age of 42 & after that at the age of 54 be brave enough to leave my bad marriage of 33 years & move 2100 miles away to a place where I didn't know anyone & start over & for the first time in my life truly feel happy while living totally alone with my eskie dogs & surrounded by the most wonderful friends in every area that I am now involved in with my life. For me those people who care & are there for me when I need them & I'm there for them when they need me is critical for my recovery & that's not something that you can really pass on to anyone. It never would have been in my life if I had stayed where I was & it just happened because my life touched the lives of wonderful people that were here already. It's just not something you can will to happen in your life.......we can only impart so much information to others but the work & how it comes together is totally individual.....sometimes all we can really be is an example for them to pattern in their own way after.