My former partner was a recovered alcoholic, 13 years into recovery. I feel a huge part of his success was his mentor in AA. The mentor in AA is a person who has beaten alcoholism for a long period of time. Like bipolar and some other disorders on these forums, alcoholism might go into remission but the disease never goes away, but many people triumph over it for the rest of their lives.
What Im proposing is that some who is struggling here matches up with someone who has a high level of mastery with their disorder, but understands how to cope with, eg minimize or prevent episodes.
Ideally, for example with bipolar, mentoring partners would be matched with people here who have the same type of bipolar: bp1, 2, 3-mixed, 4 (don't know what 4 is ), or w psychotic overtones. Sure, the perfect match would be with someone who has experience with additional disorders like ED, ADHD. etc. We could even try to match by geographical region, married or single, with or wo kids, and by hobbies. But those last things would be icing on the cake. We could do a match form. My boyfriend requested his mentor, or someone could offer to take you under their wing, to be their mentor.
What do you folks think? If you like this idea, I will propose it to PsychCentral.