Years ago I belonged to a small online forum that had a very active chatroom. I found it sooo helpful- so much laughter and friedndship. My real life friends couldn't really relate to my mental health issues, and not wanting to burden them with it all, I began to feel increasingly lonely during our meetups. But like many online forums it was killed by the attraction of Facebook - something that never interested me.

For me the difficulty is timezone. I'm in the Pacific Time Zone, so I could chat to people in the UK (during the day for me, evening for them). A voice chat would be even better, I doubt I could keep up in a typing chatroom now, so some sort of zoom or skype group would be lovely, but I'm only available to chat during the day, and I have stuff I must complete each day so finding windows of time when someone else is free becomes difficult...I think that's true for a lot of people which is why there are delays in forum replies but there are replies.

But if something is found that works - I'm in

Thank you, TabbyCat for sharing that forum info, I'm definitely going to check that out