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Originally Posted by ColorOutsideTheLine
I am new here but when I signed up- my first few days here I was reading all the threads on all the forums at Psych Central. I started to think this may not be the best place for me and a lot of things certainly didn’t seem safe, but then I found the general threads..like this here couch thread and some other threads over in general social chat..where the conversations are kept light. I think one I answered was about how people like their toast in the morning. So I decided to just stick to these general conversation threads, chime in when I can and just read when I have nothing to offer. So far, that’s working for me. Of course in my short time here I did not see everything and of course have no knowledge of what happened here in the past so it’s all still so fresh for me. Ruh Roh, I am so sorry you got silenced and feel unsafe here. I hope you can do whatever you need to do to take care of yourself.
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Unfortunately the couch is actually one of the least safe places here, in my opinion. Although there are some people who post here who are consistently kind and welcoming, there tends to be a cliquey atmosphere which makes a lot of people not feel welcome at all (especially those who have complex trauma from being bullied and so are easily emotionally triggered by such behaviour.) I've also been passive-aggressively or underhandedly attacked a number of times. I don't post (or read, mostly) here now because of that and I'm not the only one.
Welcome to PC, and I hope you do find yourself comfortable here. If you don't, know that you're not alone.