Hello All,

This forum is a great idea and I think it helps many people, thank you for hosting it.

Background:

I run a forum completely unrelated to psych, it is a cryptozoology/bigfoot research website. The focus of the site is field research, sightings analysis, stats collection, fieldcraft, etc.

We have a subset of our members who I believe need help. However, I am ignorant about mental health, so maybe I'm wrong and that's why I'm here, to educate myself.

Our website's subject matter is animals not accepted by science yet. There is a stigma associated with searching for bigfoot. Our site makes every attempt to keep the discussions science based.

Problem:

We have a subset of members who claim that they can telepathically communicate with bigfoot. That bigfoots are everywhere and have a society and special powers. That they have interactions with these creatures all the time, etc.

They have names for their bigfoot friends, etc.


Questions:

1) Do these members have a mental health issue? (I think so)

2) We have segregated them to a specific forum in our website and they stay there for the most part and do their thing. It's been about three years now. Is allowing that not helping them? Are enabling something we shouldn't?

3) Is it advisable to not provide that forum for them? that is what I would like to do, end it. I don't want to cause them any issues though.

Thank You for your advice.